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Craigslist meets Qumran
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These "Dead Sea Personals" were found recently in a long buried jar where they languished, rolled up in the desert, until just recently. Who would have posted or responded to the following personal ads?
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Old and New Testament Trivia
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Average
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jun 12 09
447 plays
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Baseball in Skirts Anagram
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My 'Diamond Dreams' exhibit program has some things mixed up. Can you sort out which teams featured which players in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943-1954?
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Sports Word Play
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Average
10 Q
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sidnobls
May 15 09
66 plays
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NASA Turns Fifty
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U.S. President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law on July 29, 1958, creating NASA. Here are questions on the first fifty years of NASA missions.
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Man in Space
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jun 30 08
450 plays
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A Globetrotting Gentleman
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In loving memory of Socalmiguel, fellow guilder, quiz maker, gentleman and rebus writer extraordinaire, The first 10 are places on earth he graced during his lifetime. The last 5 questions on this quiz are his, from a quiz he was not able to complete.
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Rebuses
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Difficult
15 Q
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sidnobls
Mar 04 09
240 plays
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Moving to Boston
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Can you acquire enough knowledge of Boston's peculiarities to thrive in your new home?
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Massachusetts
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Apr 05 08
819 plays
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This Quiz Stinks
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“Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes today and is gone tomorrow; he begins as dirt and departs as stench.” - Mark Twain
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9 for 10
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Oct 15 08
867 plays
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"Pirates" in Translation
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You'll need to get out your Penzance-English / English-Penzance Dictionary to figure out just what is going on in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous light opera "Pirates of Penzance".
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Pirates of Penzance, The
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Average
10 Q
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sidnobls
May 09 08
291 plays
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"Right, Reorge!" - A Jetsons Tribute
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As George Jetson's dog Astro would say, "Rood ruck on ris run!"
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Jetsons
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Average
10 Q
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sidnobls
Feb 03 09
504 plays
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Baseball's Mitchell Report
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How much attention did you pay to the "Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball"?
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MLB Historical
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Average
10 Q
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sidnobls
May 08 08
309 plays
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Guard Your Veg!
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If you carrot all for the 2005 film "Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit",
nobody will beet your score on this quiz.
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Wallace and Gromit
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Average
10 Q
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sidnobls
Dec 28 08
261 plays
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Mixed Up Dickens!
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Oh dear! The loose pages of my beloved "Complete Dickens" manuscript have blown all over the courtyard, and in scrambling to gather them up, I've got them all out of sort. What happens to these Dickensian characters when they are put wrong way to?
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Dickens, Charles
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Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jan 17 09
252 plays
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The 90s Across the Centuries
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The final decade before the turn of the century nudged the world to explore its own spirituality in a variety of ways. How much do you know about people's attempts to know just where they stood in the grand scheme of things?
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World History
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Apr 29 08
1218 plays
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The Zamboni
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The siren sounds and the teams head for the locker rooms. It's time for you to clear the ice. Many fans head for the vending area, but many stay to watch you. How much do you know about the origin and operation of the ice resurfacer?
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Specialized History
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Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Mar 01 08
375 plays
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Fenway Park
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For those who love history and baseball, let's take a tour of baseball's oldest and most venerable ballpark, even if you're a Yankee fan!
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Fenway Park
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Oct 02 07
507 plays
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Weather or Not
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How the Weather has Rained on History's Parade,
with a grateful nod to Laura Lee's book "Blame It on the Rain", and to the Weather Channel for inspiration.
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Specialized History
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Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jan 21 08
444 plays
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The Impossible Quiz
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Though this quiz is, in fact, impossible, it should be easy to get 10 correct, if you figure out the key.
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Language Use
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Feb 20 08
2172 plays
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The 60s Across the Centuries
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Something about the decade of the 60s brought out the desire for change- like the urge to rearrange the living room every half century or so.
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World History
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Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Nov 06 07
945 plays
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"Pinafore" in Translation
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You'll need to get out your Spithead-English / English-Spithead Dictionary to figure out just what is going on in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous light opera "HMS Pinafore".
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H
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
May 17 08
153 plays
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Barry Lyndon
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William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel “Barry Lyndon” was a notable success for the author. If you weren't around for the book signings, good luck on this quiz.
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T
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jun 11 08
123 plays
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Cape Cod Daycation
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While pondering how to spend my day off, the sandy strand known as Cape Cod beckoned, so I loaded up the Yugo for a classic escape.
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Mixed USA
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Feb 06 09
297 plays
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My True Love Guild to Me - 1st Day
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Quiz Maker Guild author SidNobls has wrapped a Christmas quiz gift of “A Partridge in a Pear Tree”, but you don't need to be an ornithologist or an arborist to enjoy this quiz.
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Twelve Days of Christmas
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Dec 26 08
384 plays
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This Quiz is Murder!
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Regardless of how well you know people in the headlines or the history books, you'll think this quiz is murder.
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Same Surname
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Apr 27 09
777 plays
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Heads Up!
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Here's a nod to some people who got a little ahead of themselves. If you can rack your brains and come up with their circumstances - hats off to you!
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Mixed Bag
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Apr 15 08
990 plays
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The 70s Across the Centuries
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The 70s ... It was the "me decade" that gave rise to outrageous personal expression and equally outrageous reactions.
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1970s History
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Dec 07 07
1206 plays
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Worship at St. Anagram's
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Asked to fill in for the priest at St. Anagram's, I found this note in the sacristy when I arrived. Can you help me solve these anagrams (in capitals) and sort out what I'm supposed to do?
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Roman Catholicism
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Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jun 12 08
378 plays
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Pulitzer Play Plots
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Can you name the Pulitzer Award winning dramas from brief descriptions of their plots?
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Plays Mixture
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Average
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jun 16 08
348 plays
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The 80s Across the Centuries
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The 80s was a decade of cultural achievement so adventurous that we would look back years later and ask 'What were we thinking?'
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World History
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Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Nov 14 07
996 plays
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Vicenary Matters
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It shouldn’t take you twenty minutes to make a good score!
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11-50
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jun 20 08
261 plays
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Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
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Shel Silverstein published this collection of his poems in 1974. He was previously the author of the hugely successful book "The Giving Tree". Both books have become children’s classics. Test your knowledge on selected poems from this collection.
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Silverstein, Shel
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Apr 24 08
282 plays
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The 10s Across the Centuries
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Those embattled teens ... seems like the second decade of every century, we are angst filled enough to whack out some other dynasty. How much do you know about conquest between '10 and '19?
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World History
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Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Dec 01 07
423 plays
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Monday's Child
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The days of the week upon which children are born determine the nature of their character. Are you like others born on the same day? How much do you know about this ancient prophesy poem?
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Idioms and Proverbs
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Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jun 02 09
618 plays
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Exonyms and Eponyms
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World travelers soon encounter the importance of language. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but globe trotters may well board the wrong plane without a little knowledge of the local lingo.
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Languages
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Nov 20 08
336 plays
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"Mikado" in Translation
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You'll need to get out your Titipu-English / English-Titipu Dictionary to figure out just what is going on in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous light opera "The Mikado".
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Mikado, The
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Tough
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jun 03 08
177 plays
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Beatles for Brainiacs
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In a recent poll, dead historical luminaries revealed their favorite Beatle songs. Can you match the correct person to their fave Fab Four lyric?
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Lyrics by The Beatles
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Difficult
10 Q
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sidnobls
Jul 05 08
588 plays
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