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Pretty awesome, actually...but what's with the Pokemon battle music?

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Oh, it's just a thing we olds used to do, back before Tinder and match (dot) com took over the interpersonal relationship management space.

The idea was that you and a person in whom you had an interest, however slight, would spend some time together doing a fun activity, primarily to see whether you remained interested enough to do another fun activity at a later time, and so on.

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It was early 90s, that was the style at the time.

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I felt an overwhelming urge to send my Entei out into battle.

(Yes, I will admit it... I really did ALMOST catch 'em all on the offspring's GameBoy.)

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Logan Echolls was ahead of his time. And oh yeah, a fictional character. Which had me hoping it would stay on (a great first season) of fictional TeeVee.

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Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr did it best https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Fun fact, speaking of the 1976 Olympics: only one female athlete was not gender-tested at that, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne (competing for Great Britain in the horse-dancing).

If you're talking about stupidities like the persecution of Castor Semenya, I agree with you; but you don't have to nastily misgender Caitlyn Jenner to do so.

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Highlander and Flash Gordon: the two movies with QUEEN soundtracks, and just like the music of Queen, they're hilarious fun and completely ridiculous.

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Flash Gordon KNOWS it's silly though.

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Dennis Hastert did, and he gave it to a "deserving" party too.

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Welcome to post-irony postmodern America, where you actually can send somebody a bag of dicks.

Thanks, Obama Hitlery.

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Over the years I have met a number of politically conservation social workers, including one of my cousins. Statistically-speaking, they represent a tiny segment of the profession but their oddness causes them to stand out.

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Indeed. Whenever we kids were watching TV and that show came on my mother would yell from the next room to "turn that crap off!" The other show that would prompt that response was Divorce Court.

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Well, back in the 70s Bruce hisself wanted to be a woman. During the 80s most rational people (at least secretly) wanted Ronnie to be shuffled off this mortal plane. I don't think he wished he was dead (although, married to Nancy? Who knows?). I think the person in the main needs to do the wishing.

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