Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from April 5, 2022 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting April 5, 2022: Sesame Street Music in the Wiggle Room with Krys O.

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1970 illustration by Jack Davis
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1970 illustration by Jack Davis

Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
Robin Gibb  Trash   Favoriting Sesame Street Fever  1978    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Roosevelt Franklin  Counts   Favoriting My Name Is Roosevelt Franklin  1970  featuring Rosalind Cash and Matt Robinson  0:04:33 (Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder  1-2-3 Sesame Street   Favoriting   1973    0:06:59 (Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder & Grover      1973    0:09:09 (Pop-up)
Baby Ray Franklin  The Skin I'm In   Favoriting My Name Is Roosevelt Franklin  1970    0:10:22 (Pop-up)
Lena Horne & Kermit the Frog  It's Not Easy Bein' Green   Favoriting   1974    0:12:52 (Pop-up)
 
Joe Raposo  Everybody Eats   Favoriting       0:18:35 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Everybody Sleeps   Favoriting       0:20:38 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Trying Song   Favoriting       0:23:39 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  What Do You Do Wth A Fruit?   Favoriting       0:24:42 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Somebody Come and Play   Favoriting       0:26:51 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Get Me a 20!   Favoriting       0:28:14 (Pop-up)
 
William "Rosko" Mercer  4   Favoriting   1970  Scanimate Films  0:31:20 (Pop-up)
William "Rosko" Mercer  Limbo Counts to Ten   Favoriting   1970    0:32:37 (Pop-up)
Bip Bippadota  None Some All   Favoriting   1973  featuring Jim Henson  0:33:57 (Pop-up)
Bip Bippadota  Mahna Mahna   Favoriting   1969  featuring Jim Henson, Loretta Long, and Frank Oz  0:35:46 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Bumble Ardy   Favoriting   1971  Number 9 with animation by Maurice Sendak  0:39:14 (Pop-up)
  Before You Arrive at School       interstitial animation piece with unknown electronic music  0:41:27 (Pop-up)
 
  The rest of the number animations from 1970     1970  featuring more Jim Henson, William "Rosko" Mercer, and Ken Nordine (minus 4, 9, and 10)  0:44:52 (Pop-up)
 
Northern Calloway  An Ape Escaped from a Train   Favoriting     Northern Calloway played David  0:57:58 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Austin Rich:

Good Hello
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Austin Rich:

I've never seen this Jack Davis drawing before! How excellent! He really was the best, wasn't he?
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Krys O.:

Howdy, all! Pardon my indulgence, but I wanted to share the music I loved from the early days of Sesame Street.
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Krys O.:

Indeed he was.
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HyperDose:

Ready to wiggle with you, Krys and Austin!
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Pauly from Clifton:

Hi, Krys, folks!
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Aitch:

I still love to count!
I even like counting myself.
1!, ha hah ha
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello, HyperDose and Krys O, and Pauly from Clifton!
Avatar 8:01pm
Mr Fab:

Krys, that Sheena's ID cut-up was really cool!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Krys O.:

Hello, Austin, HD, and Pauly!
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Scott67:

G'day Krys & Wigglers!
👍😎🎶📻🌞🌏🌻
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello, Mr. Fab and Aitch!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Krys, indulge away. Sesame Street was awesome! As was the Electric Company. And Zoom.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Krys O.:

Thanks, Mr. Fab.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello, Scott67!

Wow. I'm having serious flashbacks to my youth. Thanks Krys O!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Krys O.:

Hello, Aitch and Scott!
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Hoboken Jack:

Go go Krys O!!
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Pauly from Clifton:

G'day, Scott! I hope your Wednesday is not as cold and rainy as it is here in DC on Tuesday night. Love the avatar!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

We all love Trash.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Krys O.:

Hey, Jack and Henry!
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Kat in Chicago:

Roosevelt Franklin!
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Pauly from Clifton:

Roosevelt Franklin was the coolest.
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Krys O.:

Hi, Kat!
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Kat in Chicago:

Hi, Krys!
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David in California:

Pauly, fellow Electric Company fan here. I enjoyed hearing Tom Lehrer sing "Silent E".
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Austin Rich:

Tom Lehrer is the best.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Krys O.:

Oh, yeah. I loved Electric Company too. PBS was funky.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Austin Rich:

We didn't realize how good we had it! I was doing some child care, and the kids shows on now are awful. I used played re-runs on OG Sesame Street & Mr. Rogers, and told the Kid the TV was broken.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Krys O.:

Ha! Austin that's great.
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HyperDose:

Come on Grover, give us some soul!
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Mr Fab:

I certainly appreciated the music a lot more when I got older. Never owned a Sesame St album til I was in my 20s.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Austin Rich:

"Bubble Guppies." As near as I could figure, it was a show that taught kids how they needed to go shopping for clothes. (Which was the plot of most episodes, for some reason.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Krys O.:

@Austin: I can't help but think of the band Bubble Puppy who had the underground hit, Hot Smoke & Sassafras.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Kat in Chicago:

Brought to you by... CAPITALISM! Sounds awful, Austin.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

"It's ... the ... Plumber! I've come to fix the sink!:
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Krys O.:

LOl! Yes, Henry! I used to do that skit for my mom to make her laugh.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Krys O.:

Lena just kills me no matter what she does.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Webhamster Henry:

I heard Mabel Mercer doing "It's Not Easy Being Green"
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David in California:

I also liked "Happy birthday, Miss Jones. You sure have nice...bones" "Well, that was certainly different."
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Hoboken Jack:

Hello Scott67 and HyperDose!
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Mr Fab:

I was grateful for "Yo Gabba Gabba" when Li'l Fab was a toddler. Brought to you by Amoeba Records clerk, DJ Lance Rock.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Scott67:

G'day Pauly, mild day here mate 20 Celsius. Thanks, I miss TRASH CULT so much, I drew my own TRASH COPY version of the Logo yesterday. Then put it up to remind me, while TRASH CULT Store is closed, I should be getting the Show sorted out.
👍😎🍻💨🌞🍺
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Krys O.:

Hello, David in California.
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Mr Fab:

I saw Ray Charles sing "Bein' Green" at the Hollywood Bowl. Wasn't expecting that.
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Austin Rich:

Yeah, I've heard Yo Gabba Gabba was gold. I need to look at that the next time I'm childsitting.
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David in California:

Hello, Krys O. I'm enjoying the show.
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HyperDose:

Good evening, Hoboken Jack™!
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Mx. Baba Bee (e/they):

Hi, Krys O.! Thanks for taking us on a tour of Sesame Street!!! Hey, folx!
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HyperDose:

@Austin Yo Gabba Gabba had cool musical guests like this: www.youtube.com...
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Krys O.:

Hey, Baba xxx
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Mr Fab:

and art lessons by Mark Mothersbaugh
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Scott67:

G'day Austin, sorry I was eating!
👍😎
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Mx. Baba Bee (e/they):

Saw that amazing doc "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street" and it bleeeeewwwwww my miyeeeeend!
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Krys O.:

Need to see that, Baba. Thanks for the tip.
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Scott67:

G'day Jack! 👍😎
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Austin Rich:

Ha! I never realized this as a kid, but they are the same song!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Mx. Baba Bee (e/they):

Joe Raposo is basically responsible for almost every song I've ever loved
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Austin Rich:

He's like the Wesley Willis of Sesame Street.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Aitch:

Sesame St probably the first thing that made me want to visit NYC. Confirmed later by CBGB bands.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Krys O.:

And Raposo would appear in skits too. He was married to a local NYC TV film critic, Pat Collins.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Austin Rich:

I don't think I ever knew who he was, but now I realize how influential he was on me! I feel like these songs are in my DNA.
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Mr Fab:

hey Baba! Wasn't familiar with that film, but of course, now gotta see it.

I did see a museum exhibit about Jim Henson and that was def a mind-blower. Such an imagination. Too bad his space-age disco was never realized.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Austin Rich:

Oh yeah, I wanna see that Sesame Street doc! One of these days...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Austin Rich:

My old gay roommate used to ask me, "What do you do with a fruit," and I now realize what he was referencing!
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Webhamster Henry:

Raposo also composed songs for a version of Brecht's A Man's A Man with Eric Bentley, available on Folkways. folkways.si.edu...
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Kat in Chicago:

Craving a nectarine now!
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Krys O.:

Frank Oz came into the record store I worked at in the 80s. I heard his voice before I saw him. I was so dumbfounded that I couldn't speak. I didn't normally get that way with anyone else I encountered. This was entirely different.
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Austin Rich:

It would be hard to not recognize Frank Oz by his voice.

Ken Kesey came into my old bookstore in the early 90's, and I didn't recognize him until I asked for ID, as he was paying with a check. (Our policy then was to check ID.) Then I felt a little silly.
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Mr Fab:

Which of his characters did he sound like, Krys?

I was like that when Gary Owens came into a record store. I recognized his voice from across the room before I saw him.
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Krys O.:

Oof, Austin.
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Austin Rich:

You met Gary Owens, Mr. Fab? I'm Pretty jealous.
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Krys O.:

He sounded first and foremost like Grover.
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Webhamster Henry:

This episode of "Wiggle Room" is brought to you by the letter "O'.
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Krys O.:

Tee hee, Henry!
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HyperDose:

Great mic break!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Austin Rich:

I'm super in love with this episode, Krys O! Well done.
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Mr Fab:

He really sounded like Grover?! Haha, would not have expected anyone to actually sound like that.
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Krys O.:

Thanks, HD.

My older hipper siblings recognized Rosko's voice from the radio.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Krys O.:

Grover being low-key and soft spoken.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Krys O.:

That's so kind of you, Austin. I'm humbled.
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Aitch:

Love Grover.
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Pauly from Clifton:

Hi, David in California! Sorry...finishing up cooking. Like Krys said, "PBS was funky". A main source of entertainment being a latchkey kid.
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Austin Rich:

In my defense (re: Mr. Kesey), while I worked in a bookstore, I don't think I'd ever seen what he looked like. And he seemed amused that some kid who was no more than 20 didn't immediately recognize him, and then started getting excited.

He was a local in Eugene, so I think I was the last to meet him in person.
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HyperDose:

What's cookin, Pauly?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
Austin Rich:

True story: my wife and I used the Italian version of "Mahna nah" as our exit music at our wedding.
Avatar 8:37pm
HyperDose:

These are the kind of nonsensical songs I sing in my head
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Krys O.:

Wunnerful, Austin.
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Pauly from Clifton:

Finishing a lentil soup and deconstructed stuffed cabbage as I don't have my mother's patience of making a tight "gołąbek".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Krys O.:

Yup, they're labor intensive, Pauly. I used to help my mom.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Austin Rich:

I Love Ken.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
Krys O.:

Yeah, Ken Nordine seemed like he was going to last forever.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Austin Rich:

I mean, he really did try.
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HyperDose:

Of all the lunch meats HAM? The disrespect!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Austin Rich:

I need to get back to re-listening to all of his old radio shows. They were truly magical.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Aitch:

steamed ham?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

@Austin wearing your Levis.
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Obadiah Baird:

Hello all.
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Austin Rich:

Nice to see you, Obadiah!
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Webhamster Henry:

I was a little old for it, but I had younger brothers and loved the weird animation.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Krys O.:

Hello, Obadiah!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Austin Rich:

I'm a big younger, too, so to me Telly is the new monster.
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Krys O.:

I understand that, Henry.
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HyperDose:

Good evening, Obadiah!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Austin Rich:

I forgot how cool that weird electronic music on "three."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Austin Rich:

electronic music was on...
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Obadiah Baird:

I remember when nobody believed Snuffaluffagus existed and they all thought big bird made him up, that seemed like a delineating event when he became concensus reality.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Krys O.:

My parents watched Sesame Street when they took care of my nephew in the early 80s. Elmo was their favorite character. In fact, my parents named a pet rooster Elmo.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Austin Rich:

Yeah, I don't know about this "he's real" stuff. Snuffy was Bird's imaginary friend.
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Krys O.:

True, Obadiah. It was a sea change in perception.
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Mr Fab:

that was a good doc film, about the voice actor who basically created Elmo. Tragic, tho.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Austin Rich:

I haven't seen it yet, Mr. Fab. Maybe I need to do a double feature, with that and "Street Gang."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Webhamster Henry:

Ken Nordine and blorpy synths: great combo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

There's also "I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story"
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
Austin Rich:

Yeah, I forgot about that Caroll Spinney movie, too. That would be a long day, but you could marathon it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Krys O.:

I believe there is a Jim Henson doc in the works.
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Schnall:

I just had my farewell zoom with one of the two crews I’ve been working with at Sesame this evening; this show’s bringing up all sorts of feels.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Krys O.:

WOW, Schnall!
  8:55pm
Schnall:

I just had my farewell zoom with one of the two crews I’ve been working with at Sesame this evening; this show’s bringing up all sorts of feels.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Krys O.:

Ron Howard is working on the Henson documentary.
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HyperDose:

This is making my rose petal covered apricot filled nougat treat from the Turkish market even more enjoyable
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David in California:

Thank you, Krys O.
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Austin Rich:

This has been a great Wiggle this week, Krys! Thanks!
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Pauly from Clifton:

Thanks so much, Krys! What a sensational show!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Kat in Chicago:

Wonderful, Krys!
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HyperDose:

omg there's nuts too. I believe they symbolize all of the hidden treats that were sprinkled throughout the show. Thanks, Krys. Pleasure as always. :)
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Mr Fab:

WONDERFUL show, thanks Krys!
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Scott67:

Thanks Krys! ✌😎🌷
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Webhamster Henry:

That was fun! And: EDUCATIONAL!
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drowsy:

Thanks for the show!
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Krys O.:

Thank you, everyone! I'm so glad you were all so kind to be here.

Here's the link to Mid-Valley Mutations next: wfmu.org...
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Mr Fab:

I feeling pretty good on my numbers now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

I do 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,dek,ell.
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