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I was going to mention it, but I don't see too many tennis fans in the forums I frequent. Every time I've started a thread about tennis, the responses I got (if there were any), were lukewarm at best.

 

Conversing about tennis online isn't about getting the most responses.

 

It's about love.

 

 

* ducks *

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The BBC did a check on whether we had lost more famous people this year than in previous years. Certainly in the last five years there were more deaths of well known people (at least to the British) in the first three months of the year. It was about the same for the rest of the year. So overall there were more well known deaths this year than in the previous five. 

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From the Onion Year in Review.

http://www.theonion.com/article/people-are-inherently-good-world-halfheartedly-mut-53222?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing

 

 

 

NICE, FRANCE—Following yesterday’s terrorist attack in Nice, France that left over 80 people dead and scores more injured, sources reported that a dazed and utterly dejected global populace halfheartedly muttered the phrase “People are inherently good” to themselves Friday. “While this was a horrific and unspeakable tragedy, it’s important to remember that human beings are, at their core, good, kind, and decent,” residents of every country reportedly mumbled under their breath after hearing the latest updates on the French attack, taking a brief moment to emit a heavy sigh before continuing to speak in affectless, barely audible tones. “The people who carried out this atrocity don’t represent [unintelligible], and we can’t let [unintelligible].” At press time, the world populace began to say “Evil will never...” before trailing off, shaking their heads, and slowly walking away.
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It's funny to look back at some of the things from our childhood are obsolete only because the reference technology that is obsolete.

 

Take my favorite Transformer, Soundwave. He became a cassette player, and he had a small army of robots disguised as cassette tapes. Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" isn't completely obsolete, but the idea of film cameras and the clicking/whirring noises in the song certainly are. Numerous songs about using payphones like Genesis' "Misunderstanding" and Dr. Hook's "Sylvia's Mother."

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