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BostonBeaneater wrote:
24 Sep 2018, 9:56am
Wolter wrote:
24 Sep 2018, 9:40am
WestwayKid wrote:
24 Sep 2018, 9:26am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
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You didn’t know that? General Chuck is a great ornery twitter follow.
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Didn't Steve Yeager once appear in Playgirl?
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Wolter wrote:
24 Sep 2018, 9:40am
WestwayKid wrote:
24 Sep 2018, 9:26am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Sep 2018, 6:11am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
23 Sep 2018, 10:43pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
23 Sep 2018, 8:42pm
… former Dodger catcher Steve Yeager is the cousin of test pilot Chuck Yeager.
You didn’t know that? General Chuck is a great ornery twitter follow.
I specialize in being ignorant of common knowledge.
Didn't Steve Yeager once appear in Playgirl?
Or was that Steve Stone?
Somewhere I still have my Steve Stone-autographed program from his 1980 Cy Young season w/ the Orioles. I do not have a copy the July 1983 of Playgirl that he was naked in.
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… the origin of the Top Forty came from the maximum number of records a jukebox held back in the 40s and 50s.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:31pm
… the origin of the Top Forty came from the maximum number of records a jukebox held back in the 40s and 50s.
That's a good one. I thought it was just a list.
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Kory wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:32pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:31pm
… the origin of the Top Forty came from the maximum number of records a jukebox held back in the 40s and 50s.
That's a good one. I thought it was just a list.
Top Ten makes sense, as does Fifty or a Hundred—our metric counting habits, after all. Forty always seemed an odd cut-off to me.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:39pm
Kory wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:32pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:31pm
… the origin of the Top Forty came from the maximum number of records a jukebox held back in the 40s and 50s.
That's a good one. I thought it was just a list.
Top Ten makes sense, as does Fifty or a Hundred—our metric counting habits, after all. Forty always seemed an odd cut-off to me.
Yeah but 50 is just that much more work that the listmakers were NOT into.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:31pm
… the origin of the Top Forty came from the maximum number of records a jukebox held back in the 40s and 50s.
Cool, I like that.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:31pm
… the origin of the Top Forty came from the maximum number of records a jukebox held back in the 40s and 50s.
Never knew that although I am much more comfortable with the #40 than #50. As someone who has some OCD 40 is a great number it is square and tidy and divisible lots of of ways. 50 is awkward and ugly.

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101Walterton wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 2:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:31pm
… the origin of the Top Forty came from the maximum number of records a jukebox held back in the 40s and 50s.
Never knew that although I am much more comfortable with the #40 than #50. As someone who has some OCD 40 is a great number it is square and tidy and divisible lots of of ways. 50 is awkward and ugly.
35 is awkward and ugly for me, so in 15 years I can't see much difference.
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101Walterton wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 2:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
11 Oct 2018, 1:31pm
… the origin of the Top Forty came from the maximum number of records a jukebox held back in the 40s and 50s.
Never knew that although I am much more comfortable with the #40 than #50. As someone who has some OCD 40 is a great number it is square and tidy and divisible lots of of ways. 50 is awkward and ugly.
You can keep your 40 & 50 all I want is.

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Have I mentioned that I just learned that the lyrics to Blister in the Sun are "when I'm OUT walking, I strut my stuff..." and not "when I'M-A walking, I strut my stuff?" Because I just learned that.
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JennyB wrote:
12 Oct 2018, 10:16am
Have I mentioned that I just learned that the lyrics to Blister in the Sun are "when I'm OUT walking, I strut my stuff..." and not "when I'M-A walking, I strut my stuff?" Because I just learned that.
JennyB: No longer living the lie.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
12 Oct 2018, 10:33am
JennyB wrote:
12 Oct 2018, 10:16am
Have I mentioned that I just learned that the lyrics to Blister in the Sun are "when I'm OUT walking, I strut my stuff..." and not "when I'M-A walking, I strut my stuff?" Because I just learned that.
JennyB: No longer living the lie.
I do feel much better.
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JennyB wrote:
12 Oct 2018, 10:38am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
12 Oct 2018, 10:33am
JennyB wrote:
12 Oct 2018, 10:16am
Have I mentioned that I just learned that the lyrics to Blister in the Sun are "when I'm OUT walking, I strut my stuff..." and not "when I'M-A walking, I strut my stuff?" Because I just learned that.
JennyB: No longer living the lie.
I do feel much better.
Now, let's move on to the supposed ability of jet fuel to melt steel beams.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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