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   Merlin Mann (hotdogsladies@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 04:45:00 JST Merlin Mann

   I wish I could travel back to 1967 to tell these kids their songs will be used in commercials for children’s crackers and finding someone to fix your toilet.

   Talk about going down a rabbit hole.

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 04:44:59 JST powersoffour

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     @hotdogsladies But *also* the ending scene to "A Serious Man" so ... maybe that would ease the pain???

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     Merlin Mann (hotdogsladies@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 04:46:29 JST Merlin Mann

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     @powersoffour

     I’m just still amazed “Miracles” ever got played on the radio.

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 04:51:23 JST powersoffour

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     @hotdogsladies I'm going to have to defer to some learned folks on the whole "Starship" thing.

     "Every band, should, if it's gone on a long time and has clearly jumped the shark, every band should be required to start out being called whatever the band name is plus 'Airplane' and then, the day they get shitty, they should be forced to change to whatever the band name is plus 'Starship.'"

     "Ah, that's good. So it becomes a way though where it's almost like identifying sick people in a community."

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 04:56:21 JST powersoffour

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     @hotdogsladies (that's taken from Simpson, Mann and Lisagor's "You Look Nice This Morning" vol 2, 'Actuary Starship' although I can't find a DOI at the moment, unfortunately. I'll get in touch with my university library to rectify this.)