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Favoriting March 17, 2014: If you had the luck of the Irish...

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Artist Track Album Label New Approx. start time
Stiff Little Fingers  Alternative Ulster   Favoriting Inflammable Material  Restless Retro    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Sham 69  Ulster   Favoriting Tell Us the Truth  Sire    0:02:20 (Pop-up)
Gang of Four  Ether   Favoriting 100 Flowers Bloom  Rhino    0:05:36 (Pop-up)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists  Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead   Favoriting Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead  Lookout!    0:09:49 (Pop-up)
Thin Lizzy  Emerald   Favoriting Jailbreak  Mercury    0:13:28 (Pop-up)
The Pogues  Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six   Favoriting If I Should Fall from Grace with God  Island    0:17:57 (Pop-up)
Ketch Secor  Give Ireland Back to the Irish   Favoriting Let Us in Americana: the Music of Paul McCartney  Reviver    0:22:37 (Pop-up)
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band  The Luck of the Irish   Favoriting Sometime in New York City  Capitol    0:25:54 (Pop-up)
The Dubliners  The Fields of Athenry   Favoriting Alive Alive O  Baycourt    0:29:24 (Pop-up)
 
The Undertones  It's Going to Happen   Favoriting Positive Touch  Castle    0:40:07 (Pop-up)
Christy Moore  Back Home in Derry   Favoriting Ride On  WEA Ireland    0:43:14 (Pop-up)
Seamus Heaney  Requiem for the Croppies   Favoriting Northern Muse  Imports    0:46:55 (Pop-up)
Dead Can Dance  The Wind that Shakes the Barley   Favoriting Into the Labyrinth  4AD    0:48:07 (Pop-up)
The Chieftains with Sinead O'Connor  The Foggy Dew   Favoriting The Long Black Veil  RCA Victor    0:51:04 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison  Cyprus Avenue   Favoriting Astral Weeks  Warner Bros.    0:56:41 (Pop-up)
Bing Crosby  Galway Bay   Favoriting Top o' the Morning  Geffen    1:03:31 (Pop-up)
W.B. Yeats  The Lake Isle of Innisfree   Favoriting The Very Best Historic Voices  Blue Denim    1:06:37 (Pop-up)
Orbital  Belfast   Favoriting 2Orbital  Orbital Music Ltd/Rhino    1:09:28 (Pop-up)
James Joyce  James Joyce Reads an Extract from "Ulysses"   Favoriting Great Audio Moments, Vol. 39: Famous Irish Writers  Global Journey    1:17:32 (Pop-up)
Sinéad O'Connor  Peggy Gordon   Favoriting Sean-Nos Nua  Vanguard/Hummingbird Records    1:21:59 (Pop-up)
Devendra Banhart  Sligo River Blues   Favoriting I Am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey  Vanguard  *   1:27:06 (Pop-up)
 
Natural Child  Saturday Night Blues   Favoriting Dancin' with Wolves  Burger  *   1:46:14 (Pop-up)
Jacco Gardner  Notus   Favoriting 7"  Trouble in Mind  *   1:48:29 (Pop-up)
Soft Location  Huh   Favoriting Fools  Physical Things  *   1:50:13 (Pop-up)
Damaged Bug  SS Cassidiner   Favoriting Hubba Bubba  Castle Face  *   1:54:55 (Pop-up)
Dead Moon  Parchment Farm   Favoriting In the Graveyard  Mlady's  *   1:57:25 (Pop-up)
Mudhoney  Here Comes Sickness   Favoriting Live at Third Man Records  Third Man Records  *   2:01:15 (Pop-up)
The Men  Dark Waltz   Favoriting Tomorrow's Hits  Sacred Bones  *   2:05:08 (Pop-up)
Bardo Pond  Luna Sway   Favoriting Shone Like a Ton  Three Lobed  *   2:10:07 (Pop-up)
Amber Route  When Cries Are Photographed Finally As Ravens   Favoriting Snail Headed Victrolas  Coriolis  *   2:22:33 (Pop-up)
 
Neneh Cherry  Out of the Black (feat. Robyn)   Favoriting Blank Project  Smalltown Supersound  *   2:34:10 (Pop-up)
Gardens & Villa  Thunder Glove   Favoriting Dunes  Secretly Canadian  *   2:39:46 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

  12:03am
P-90:

Yo Therese! Can I pronounce your name like "theories" tonight?
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BadGuyZero:

Hiya!
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Callieflower:

Good evening, everyone! :)
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tomB:

Yes, even us Prods can celebrate St. Patrick's Day in NYC.
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Callieflower:

Hearing TL on FMU will always make me smile
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Tome:

Hey Therese , Hey Kiddles ,, again SpecTacUlaR Human League performance last week !!! and all the rest of you Fab DJ's we all love !
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Therese:

Hello! Thanks for stopping by!
  12:12am
nate:

I wonder if House of Pain's Sub Pop 7" is in the record library. Yes, it exists.
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KP:

Is this Therese Lizzy
  12:16am
P-90:

nothin like a little Thin Lizzy on a Sunday eve
  12:17am
P-90:

@KP: T. Lizzy, haha!
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Tome:

If I Should Fall from Grace with God ,, great record !
  12:20am
P-90:

Happy St. Pub's Day to all! I'm getting thirsty already, this song smells like a good bar
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mariano:

Irish? Late night? Boomtown Rats "Up All Night!" Not Irish themed, but still...
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KP:

Saw a long & wonderful documentary about Phil Lynott last time I was in Ireland. That would be 14 St Patricks Days ago.
  12:21am
JakeGould:

Listening to the record clicks streaming through my iPhone is fantastically surreal. And yes, I remember that "House of Pain" SubPop single. Actually had it 20 years ago. Got rid if it in the "Sorry, but I am digital now!" purge of the early 2000s. Shamrocks
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tomB:

Birmingham 6 needs to be listened-to carefully. Imagine being jailed because there was nitroglycerine residue on your fingertips--until your new lawyer documents that you can pick up nitroglycerine residue from the finish on playing cards.
  12:24am
Steve-O:

Hi Therese! I hope you're enjoying St. Patrick's Day so far.....=)
  12:24am
KP:

And Happy St Patrick's Day, Therese
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pacific standard simon:

What can I say; I'm half Irish, and find most American celebrations of Irishness at least as offensive as Huey Newton would be offended by Amos and Andy (I'm guessing).
  12:26am
Bob in DC and/or VA:

Hey Therese and WFMU listeners everywhere!
  12:27am
P-90:

Sing it for the Irish, Yoko!
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Whooda:

@Bad Guy Zero You think the announcement today will declare the moon made of cheese. I think it will be that Cher and Rivers et al have proven that plastic surgery neutralizes gravitational waves.
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mariano:

Didn't realize till recently that Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison all have Irish roots.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31am
pacific standard simon:

'If I had the luck of the British, I'd be shot dead by Chapman instead.'
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mariano:

Have/had, you know what I mean.
  12:33am
JakeGould:

I'm in Bay Ridge
  12:34am
JakeGould:

I'm in Bay Ridge and all pastries are Irish right now.
  12:35am
P-90:

@Mariano: yeah, the Liverpool part of England is chock-a-block with both Irish and Scottish blood
  12:35am
Carmichael:

Happy Paddys Day from a Wexford lad. Please play the Undertones sometime this evening. Mwahh!
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BadGuyZero:

St. Patrick's Day is "Amateur Drinking Day brought to you by Flogging Molly and McMiller McLite"
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Whooda:

'I rush' from bar to bar, that's pretty close.
  12:37am
JakeGould:

Drunks in plastic caps drinking green beer. Tomorrow in NYC!
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pacific standard simon:

SHAMROCKS!!!

Because REAL rocks are for throwing, darling.
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mariano:

Hey, a clue I couldn't get from Saturday's crossword just turned out to be St Pat, very fitting. Clue was "Annual Winter honoree, briefly."
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BadGuyZero:

The thing I wanna know is if Chicago can dye the river water green for St. Patrick's Day why can't they dye it red when Slayer comes to Chicago?
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Tome:

it's happened 2 times since I been listening to this station .. where back then 10-20 years ago it was like "" what the heck is that your listening to?" then when you see them after so many years ... they're hooked !!!
  12:40am
JakeGould:

Real rocks for my sham friends, shamrocks for my real friends!
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pacific standard simon:

@Tome - I keep hoping for that. I get the first part, but never the second part.
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mariano:

Undertones! I remember seeing this vid when I was 10 or so, in the early days of HBO, when they'd play random videos between movies, before MTV. How I heard Polyrock too. Wow, thanks Therese, memories!
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pacific standard simon:

Here's a vote for Elvis Costello's "American Without Tears".
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BadGuyZero:

John Peel's all-time favorite song was The Undertones "Teenage Kicks."
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mariano:

Yeah, Simon, or "Tramp the Dirt Down."
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pacific standard simon:

White cable knit jumpers suck.
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mariano:

In our own slime? Ewwww!
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BadGuyZero:

@mariano: The town in which I grew up didn't have MTV for many years so HBO was the main source of music videos for me. I remember seeing Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men." Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Wham's "Bad Boys" on HBO.
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Tome:

.,, wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald ,,,
  12:48am
Steve-O:

I've got a little Irish in me.....although quite a bit of that is more *Scots*-Irish, to be honest.
  12:48am
JakeGould:

@BGZ: In NY
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mariano:

@BGZ: yeah, HBO used to do some really cool stuff like that between movies: stupid little shorts like "Hardware Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind."
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pacific standard simon:

I find my Welsh and Scottish heritages much more comforting, I must say. Especially the Scots, because they fucked the British from time to time -- but they eventually became what they beheld.
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Tome:

HBO ,, remember very wild parties like 30+ years ago all too well,,, was an "outside contractor back then..
  12:53am
Carmichael:

Several thousand thank yous, Therese! Here's to Ireland's 32.
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Whooda:

I'll take Sinead O'Conner anyway I can, thanks Therese.
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mariano:

Heaney mentioned Vinegar Hill. Interesting, there's a 'hood here in Brooklyn with that name, wonder if the Irish one is the origin.
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pacific standard simon:

Ah, I was trying to think of an Irish musician that I felt mostly comfortable with... appropriate that it's the thorny Van Morrison.
  1:00am
JakeGould:

Did my iPhone comment come through? Argh. I meant to say, U-68 in NJ and NYC was the UHF video station. Same channel as Uncle Floyd and WHT (the movie network).
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Therese:

I remember U-68!
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pacific standard simon:

Please, for the love of Jaysus, no OOTOO.
  1:05am
Steve-O:

@PSS: Yeah, I've got quite a bit of Welsh and Scottish, too, it seems. Surprisingly enough, though, I might be more French than Scottish, at least.
  1:06am
JakeGould:

Yes! Therese! U-68 was the only thing out in the boonies of Brooklyn. Small night slot in the channel for metal. And profoundly awkward hosts that made Uncle Floyd look pro.
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mariano:

Wow. Yeats. Nice one.
  1:08am
JakeGould:

Yeats! Now I feel like I am in the library in JHS. Not a bad thing!
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pacific standard simon:

Yeats is alright, but I prefer Dylan Thomas.
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mariano:

What's OOTOO?
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pacific standard simon:

There's a lovely Judy Collins musical cover of "Innisfree".
  1:10am
JakeGould:

PSS, did you hear about that blog, "My Husband's Stupid Yeats Collection." There are pictures of her on a futon with a drink and a Yeats book she mocks.
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pacific standard simon:

U2
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mariano:

Oh, The Letter U and the Numeral Two. Gotcha.
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pacific standard simon:

My Husband's Stupid Poetry Collection -- now there's a blog my wife could REALLY get behind.
  1:14am
JakeGould:

Anyone know any good limericks? Today is the day!
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pacific standard simon:

LOUIS SIMPSON, baby!!!!
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pacific standard simon:

Hm.
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mariano:

I was going to suggest some Joyce, an actress reading Molly Bloom's famous bit, or some of the music from that era...
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BadGuyZero:

Is this James Joyce recording from Mac's record collection?
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mariano:

There was a young fellow named Feeney
Who dribbled some gin on his weenie
Just to be couth, he added vermouth
And slipped his wife a martini.
  1:21am
tom:

t-do you have any samuel beckett?
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Whooda:

One of my favorites:
A young lady by the name of Bianca
Slept while the ship was at anchor,
She woke in dismay
When she heard the Mate say,
Lift up the Top Sheet and Spanker
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pacific standard simon:

A fella from Belfast once said,
"There's bloody great worm in my head,
And it seems to be eating
All the meat I've been beating.
Please kill me, I want to be dead."
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BadGuyZero:

I wonder if Maple Leaf Mussolini [a.k.a. Canadian Glenn Beck] ever read "Ulysses."
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mariano:

Oh, Whooda and Simon, cheeky monkeys!
  1:26am
JakeGould:

These limericks are filthy! They befoul the sanctity
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mariano:

Who's the Canadian Glenn Beck?
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pacific standard simon:

Automatic writing.
  1:26am
JakeGould:

Sanctity of Saint Paddy's day!
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mariano:

Hey, my limerick stresses the two great Catholic virtues: drinking and marital sex!
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BadGuyZero:

@mariano: This kid that called into "Best Show on WFMU" for a while. Tom told him he couldn't call in again until he read "Ulysses." He was never heard from again.
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pacific standard simon:

I curse the ones who spell it "Saint Patti's (or Patties) Day" on Tumblr.
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Whooda:

I'm guessing McDonalds celebrates St. Patties Day?
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mariano:

@BGZ: Oh wow, missed that one. Well, at least he's an honest fascist, or at least stuck on the Cyclops chapter where the one-eyed antisemite berates Bloom!
  1:34am
KP:

Van Morrison is a Protestant from Northern Ireland raised a uk citizen, British to the core. He admits he was not aware of Irish literary and musical traditions until late in life.
Now Christy Moore, he's your man.
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pacific standard simon:

Trust me, Therese, go for the Elvis Costello. He is more Irish than most of these foos, regardless.
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BadGuyZero:

Time for 90 minutes of metal???
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mariano:

Yeats was also Protestant, so was Wilde. There were many Protestant nationalists, including leaders like Tone and Parnell.
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pacific standard simon:

Um, um... george bernard shaw...
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mariano:

Sean O'Casey, JM Synge...
  1:44am
KP:

Thanks Therese for playing the Dubliners. That is indeed the rare auld stuff.
  1:46am
KP:

Still time for Mary Black. If you play Christy Moore, yea got to play Mary Black.
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pacific standard simon:

Someone already mentioned Samuel Beckett...
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mariano:

Oh wow, didn't realize Beckett was Protestant too.
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BadGuyZero:

The progression of this Jacco Gardner tune reminds me of Emma Pollock's solo stuff.
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pacific standard simon:

Walk On By...
  1:59am
KP:

Awesome Parchment Farm
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BadGuyZero:

Fred Cole is in poor health right now. He's having emergency open-heart bypass surgery.
  2:19am
tom:

like the contrasting guitar sounds on this bardo pond
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mariano:

I remember a while back, probably a couple of years, when I first heard "The Stars Beyond" by Bardo Pond on this show.
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BadGuyZero:

You did a lot of talking two of the past three weeks. Taking a break from being on the microphone is understandable.
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BadGuyZero:

Yay! You're back!
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BadGuyZero:

Did he just crash through the ceiling???
  2:45am
Steve-O:

Hey AmEdeo! =)
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mariano:

You scared the bejabbers out of me there, AmEdeo!
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Whooda:

Isn't one of President Obama's daughter's name Malasia? Coincidence? I think not.
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BadGuyZero:

I bought a toy airplane at the airport and now I can't find it.
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BadGuyZero:

Gummi shoes???
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mariano:

How could it still be in the air after a week?
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Whooda:

The flight was plane-jacked by some sky thugs trying to escape from Superman.
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BadGuyZero:

A seaciety?
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BadGuyZero:

Sully has been on CBS News offering commentary on MH370.
  2:57am
Steve-O:

Great show as usual, Therese.....looking forward to AmEdeo's show soon.....=)
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Whooda:

They will find the plane in some back alley in the Philipines up on blocks with the wheels gone, doors stripped and cd player ripped out of the cockpit.
  2:58am
Steve-O:

Didn't you mean "Atlanta"? LOL.....(sorry, couldn't resist). =p
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BadGuyZero:

I think it's the start of the Bermuda Triangle's long-awaited comeback.
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BadGuyZero:

Do you think the Newman death hoax is indicative of Seinfeld's involvement in the disappearance of MH370???
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Whooda:

Landing is a controlled crash by definition.
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