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Mike wins! Congrats, Mike!

I'm honored. Thank you!

Today, we win...

Tonight we dine... in Denny's!

Five golden rings!

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Good day! Mate!

How did this turn into the music thread?

Loving the new embeds btw...

Oooh, I would say Don't be Cruel, because I think it was a bigger smash hit than Love Me Tender, and Hound Dog is really Big Mama Thornton's even if Elvis made it better known. He changed the lyrics for the worse imo. I remember really liking Hound Dog and Heartbreak Hotel when I was a small child, but I never heard the earlier better version until I was older. Love Me Tender would be #2.

Blarg.

1971 was a weird year musically.

Potsie!

Hello? Is anybody home?

Bing Bong!

Once upon a time

I could control myself.

I used to love Donny Osmond so much. Parents should have done something about that early.

I was building sand castles with my 12 year old this weekend. He wanted to build a city. I just wanted to dig a hole. So as I dug deeper and got to the wetter sand, I started pelting his city with boulders, destroying it. He got mad, but I explained that my primitive culture believed in stockpiling weapons, digging a hole for more weapons, and destroying other civilizations with my weapons. He gave up building his city and joined my weapons/hole society. We decided our religion focused on digging our WAH (Wet Ass Hole) and that our god was Waluigi (“Wahhh!”). We were trying to dig to the water table and reach Nirvana- the band. They were shrunk down in the late 90s and took all good music with them. When we reached Nirvana, at the water table, they would fly out on microscopic dragon flies and restore good music to the universe. We had a good time digging a hole.

I could watch Luigi Death Stare cosplay all day. So great.

Same.

I might have to take the deposition of a man named Peanut. That's his god given first name. Peanut.

Same.

Same.

On to 1972...

The legend of the sea goddess, though known in various regions by different names, is one of the most widespread of Inuit myths. One version is that some time ago, during a violent blizzard, a handsome young stranger enters a family igloo wearing a necklace with two large canine teeth. He is welcomed into the bed and sleeps with the entire family. When they awake the next morning, the young man is gone. The father, seeing only animal tracks outside, says, "We were deceived. That must have been my lead dog disguised as a man." When his daughter becomes pregnant, the father, ashamed of what she might produce, makes his daughter lie on the back of his kayak while he paddles to a small island where he abandons her. In some versions of the myth, her lover changes into a bird and flies her to the island.

Alone on the island, the girl receives tender pieces of meat from the lead dog, who swam out to provide for her. She gives birth to six young; three are Inuit children, but the other three have bigger ears and snout-like noses. The young mother sews sealskins into one large slipper, places the three strange children inside, and pushes them off the island toward the south, calling out, "Sarutiktapsinik sanavagumarkpusi'"(You shall be good at making weapons). Some Inuit say that European and First Nations peoples are descended from those three dog children and only through them are they related to the Inuit.

The second part of the story, usually told on the following night, tells of the father going in an umiak, a large skin boat, to take his daughter off the island. On their way home a storm rises, threatening to capsize the overloaded boat. The boatmen decide that to lighten the load they must throw the daughter overboard. When she tries to climb back into the boat, her father cuts off her fingers. These fingers become seals in the sea. She tries again and he cuts off her hands, which become walruses. She makes one last attempt to climb aboard the boat but her father cuts off her forearms, which transform into whales.

Cast out of the boat for good, the girl sinks into the depths of the sea and becomes Sedna, or Nuliayuk or Taluliyuk, the woman who controls all sea beasts and is half-woman and half-fish. Sedna is a centrally important goddess for the Inuit, and is said to hold sea animals entangled in her hair, only to release them when she is appeased by offerings, songs or a visit from an angakok (shaman). Many songs are sung to this powerful goddess and in new seasons, pieces of the liver of the first-killed sea mammal are returned to the waters, imploring Sedna to release her bounty to the hunters so that they might feed their families. The angakok may visit Sedna in a trance, where he hears of the taboos and disrespect inflicted on her by the people, and soothes her by combing her hair with a bone comb.

Jesus. Religions really hate women.