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Totally know about the no-pick, did not know about the crazy glue.

Having now done my research on Private Dancer (musically it totally fits in with the rest of Love Over Gold), it's interesting to note that while they used the rest of DS for the instrumental tracks, Knopfler didn't appear, the guitar instead being played by the <em>other</em> British guitarist famous for mastery of volume swells and not using a pick - Jeff Beck.

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Also too the gubbmint has no munneez - except what it STOLE from hardworking patriotic Americans!!!!!1!!

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Commie pinkos?

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Was Sibelius Finnish enough?

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She's much hotter when she is talking, because that means Schmo's less likely to be...

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And I called myself a Straits fan...

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Sorry for being slow on the uptake, but what does Morning Joe's Mika have to do with this story? I know explaining a joke usually ruins it - I just don't get it.

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Linus Torvalds libel!

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Eyechart?

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CK: I can always count on you to set me straight.

For some crazy reason I was thinking the reference was more than just making fun of her name.

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Napoleon? Not Dynamite, either

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