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Or perhaps Elvis Costello's "Tramp the dirt down"

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The only remaining municipally owned transit system that I am aware of, is Lothian in the Edinburgh area.

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It fits better onto a bumper sticker as 'Better Dead than Red'.

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If he really wanted to annoy the Christianists, he would dress in drag.

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A couple of years ago, the younger Ronald <a href="http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/jan\/17\/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-president-son" target="_blank">claimed</a> to have noticed some signs during his dad's first term, but later walked it back.

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<a href="http:\/\/www.godtube.com\/watch\/\?v=JBFJMMNU" target="_blank">Some nutters believe</a> the opening of the sixth seal (Revelation 6:12-14) describes the explosion of a "nuclear bomb", so clearly they'd be OK with that. Afterwards the seventh seal comes in balancing a ball on its nose.

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Thanks to Dok for reminding me about <i>B Movie</i> and frrolfe for <i>Beasley Street </i> . Two wonderful songs that had completly escaped my memory of the times - along with lots of other stuff - as is true for anyone in their early 20's in the early '80s.

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You just made me spit.

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My school's song was "expectoramus igitur". I think Skoal Rebel was an exchange student.

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When we weren't smoking pot, that is.

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One wonders how much cognitive dissonance the editors of the textbook experience with the overtly hippy/socialist teachings of that Jesus guy - if any.

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A bit of Billy Bragg. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E">http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Has anyone mentioned "ketchup as a vegetable" yet? I wonder if those homeschoolers are eating delicious BTK sandwiches for lunch,

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OT but why are the wonkette panties on fire?

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I think about what Reagan did in office and what Obama's done in office, and then compare that to the reverance/hatred felt towards each and come to the conclusion there might be some kind of double standard at play here. Hmmm...I wonder...

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The early Reagan years - had anyone noticed that he had Alzheimer's yet?

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