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Four letter words are seldom heard with such dignity and bite Prince – Joy In Repetition
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Best use of “seldom heard” construction in a song since “Home on the Range”?

And seldom is heard, a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day

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Manic Monday The Bangles – Manic Monday
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After Prince became a fan of The Bangles song “Hero Takes A Fall”, he offered the group two songs to record – “Jealous Girl” or “Manic Monday”. They chose “Manic Monday” and released it as the lead single of their sophomore album Different Light.

It became their internationally-successful breakthrough hit, reaching #2 in the US, UK, Germany & Austria, #4 in Switzerland & Norway and #5 in New Zealand.

Prince’s own version was officially released on a 2019 compilation titled Originals which is full of songs he wrote but are best-known as being performed by other artists, such as The Time “Jungle Love”, Sheila E “The Glamorous Life” and Sinead O'Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U”.

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Franklin speculated that Prince died because of Zika. "But, you know, they're saying flu-like symptoms. i'm wondering if it had anything to do with this Zika virus," said Franklin. Aretha on Prince | The Weekly Standard

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Hirsute Muhammad Raihan, 13, has turned down medical treatment for his ultra rare condition because he thinks it's a blessing from God. Meet teenage 'werewolf' revered as god by villagers because of thick hair covering entire body - Mirror Online

WOOP WOOOP – AMBIGUOUS CONSTRUCTION ALERT!!!

(Is his name “Hirsute”? Yes, that would be a crazy coincidence, but the construction / capitalization is ambiguous, and I am not going to let it go)

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...ved some very tough
 decisions. While such decisions are part of running a business, they are never easy. Change can often be hard, but we're certain this is the right direction for Mashable.***Folks,As you know we recently announced a funding round to expand our
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The mental gymnastics involved in attributing massive layoffs to an influx of money…

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We wanted to disrupt the sitcom. We wanted the characters to talk like real people, to use irreverent language, to have an edge. We wanted to shoot things outdoors and play country music — things that are unconventional for a sitcom... Q. and A.: Ashton Kutcher Talks About His New Netflix Comedy - The New York Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6cI7pWgzOU#t=24s

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WeWork announces WeWee, a bathroom membership program. The ultimate roundup of 2015's biggest April Fools' Day pranks

Fell for this one last year

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Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, a cloistered Franciscan nun and media entrepreneur who founded the largest Roman Catholic television network in the country, and used it unstintingly to criticize liberalizing trends in the Catholic Church, died on Sunday. She was 92. Mother Mary Angelica, Who Founded Catholic TV Network, Dies at 92 - The New York Times

copied to “twitter bio ideas” google doc

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The Consumer Electronics Show, universally known as CES, is a riot of technology. Held annually in the bleak Nevada desert town of Las Vegas, it is a great blinking din, jammed with screens, speakers, automobiles, whirling drones, blooping robots, e-cigs and e-cigs and ever more e-cigs, plus some 170,000 people bumping around inside a dis... Searching For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The Most Powerful Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of

Such a confusing way to introduce Las Vegas – adding the descriptor makes it seem like it’s some little-known desert town

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8 years

#sarcasm

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