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So our neighbors and family friends from when I was around 9-12 invited us to something very special. Real-D was invented by the dad/step dad of the family. We went to a family and friends screening not only in real-d 3d (which is better, im not being biased!) but in some special 185 something something where every pixel is in super high focus and only a few theaters have it. Something very prestigious of course because this movie has been 10 years in the making in partnership with our friend. No tacky previews, but we had three previews for some new real-d movies. Despicable Me is a movie with Steve Carell among lots of other names. To me it seems like Monsters vs. Aliens minus certain blonds who aren't worthy to be with Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, and all those other people. How to Train Your Dragon also seems a lot better now that I know it's about vikings. Yes I said Vikings! its a boy not intensely buff and scary enough to be a viking where they battle dragons. So geeky little boy gets a catapult and ends up catching the beast and learns something new. Along those lines. The last was the new Alice in Wonderland and I am soooo excited for it. I think you can find enough about it somewhere else, but Alice coming back has got my blood pumping. Avatar to me lived up to its hype overall. It was adult version of Fern Gully (great movie from my childhood) with huge 10 foot tall blue people in a poly-sci-fi battle (that means political science fiction; orson scott card-esque) on an alien planet. 

In the first half hour you can get about this much...Pandora is an alien planet. Earth uses a mineral that sells for a bajillion. A business man has paid for the ships to come to the planet and help. He has troops come in and uses them like they did in black water as just a gun that follows his orders for pay. Scientists are they to study the flora and fauna. Jake Sully is a paralyzed marine with no means to fight, the one reason he is there is because his twin brother was a PhD. He shared the enough with him genetically for him to work his avatar. His marine back round has made him a target of interest from a nasty intense colonel who is business man's bitch, for lack of a better term, who wants a war. From there you are on your own to watch it.

The effects and all that jazz are crazy. The science doesn't get to crazy advanced which pisses me off. The theory behind the avatars is classic and not to perfect. There are hitches to it, its not all happy go lucky. The nature of the world is awesome. The plants and animals are what you have on our lovely planet but better. Things you can actually find in the forest (trust me I have seen crazy stuff) but covering every inch. Prehistoric animals and other beast all seem to have an extra set of limbs, or wings, or eyes. The visuals, of course, are crazy and the insane way its filmed makes every little thing popped. Every single aspect is not forgotten by Cameron. He makes sure the corner of the screen isn't too boring. He pays attention to things like how the human avatars have five fingers but the natives have four. You can see the people in the aliens and it makes Ben Button look like a toy in that aspect. They are awkward in movements at first and you learn more with them. Every little thing is thought out. You would hope so if you spent ten years working on it.

Cameron does deserve to have such a huge ego and many in the "biz" agree and so does the box office. There is a song at the end of the movie but it is not going to be the next "My Heart Will Go On". Thank the lord for that. This movie gets extra cool points for not having a song that makes you want to shoot your face off. Along with the political aspects, fern gully/pocahontas way of showing nature stuff in a more adult way, awesome effects, cool sci-fi stuff, a whole new language (thank you prof Paul Frommer) and world, and a little alien romance(can you say tail sex?!?! just kidding...I least I hope) I would go see it. 

Love always! have a merry christmas and a happy new year. And jews! celebrate with me and lets order in some chinese and watch old movies!

If You Think the English Language is Easy -- Consider:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present .

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the row of oarsmen about how to row .

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?


Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England. French fries were not invented in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are not.


You lovers of the English language might enjoy this:

The two-letter word "Up" has more meanings than any other word in our language.

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to type UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP an old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, the word takes UP almost 1/4th of a page and can include UP to forty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try working UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP for now because my time is UP, so.........it is time to shut UP!

Me love you long time...

Received the following message from an apparent admirer here on Buzznet on Tuesday, 8/11/2009. Have had a number of messages from spammers and scammers over the years, especially to my Yahoo account, but this is the first of its type that I've personally received here. Some of you may be quite familiar with messages of this type, but to those who aren't, this one may prove to be a bit enlightening. The name has been changed for security reasons, but the rest is as I received it. Read on...
  

From Ms. Chachi Ahantal,
  
It is my pleasure to write you after going through your profile i decided to contact you to help me out of my problem, however is not mandatory nor will i in any manner compel you to honour against your will, but first Iet me introduce myself to you.
  
My name is Ms. Chachi Ahantal, Am 24 years of age, I am a student of high school before I lost my parents in a car accident last year, so I have been out from school and been looking for a sincere person that I will trust and love.
  
I am the only child of my late parents and that has made me to run away from our family house because my uncles are after my life to take away my inheritance which my late father left for me in a Bank here in Cote D'Ivoire. My entire dream is to find somebody that I can trust with my future life and inheritance and also who will be able to invest it wisely in any lucrative business.
   
Nobody knows about the inheritance which worth $15.7 million dollars in Cash deposited in a Bank here with my name as the next of kin. And I want you to also keep it very confidential till we can be able to transfer this money from the Bank here to your country and I will fly to join you immediately for future plans of continue my education once a join you in your country.
  
I have to trust somebody to save my future and that is why I am trusting you now I want you to understand my critical situation and give me the love and assistance that I need, so that I will have a better life and also enjoy my inheritance with you. I will tell you more about myself as soon as I hear back from you, your interest to assist me and also build more trust to be able to have a better understanding. Please do reply me back through my private email address for my security reason 
  
chachi-ahantal at yahoo dot com
  
I look forward for your urgent response; thank you and God bless you.
  
Best regard
Ms. Chachi Ahantal
  

Well, that was certainly a fascinating proposal.
  
She says, "I have been out from school and been looking for a sincere person that I will trust and love." Well, isn't that what we all look for? Suddenly I'm reminded of the infamous me love you long time video clip from Stanley Kubrick's classic film Full Metal Jacket. But she goes on to explain about her evil uncles who are after her life to take away her inheritance, and now it's beginning to sound like an old black & white serial melodrama from The Perils of Pauline.
  
But then it gets interesting, as in this economy, "$15.7 million dollars in Cash" in any currency is nothing to sneeze at, as I'm sure that you'll agree.  And her plea for "the love and assistance" that she needs" along with her offer to enjoy her inheritance with me could be a tempting tidbit, even if it was only a portion of that money. Then again, one must realize that these scams are e-mailed by the thousands each day, so who know just how many others received this message yesterday.
 
This young lady does have a profile here on Buzznet, along with a photo posted, as you can see here, as long as it's left up. Maybe she's looking for this to be her new home on the 'Net. In any case, I'll obviously pass on her most generous offer and leave it open to others who may be more inclined to take her up on her proposition.  
 
Or maybe I'll just pass her message on to the fine folks at Ebola Monkey Man. They'll know exactly what to do.
 
 

jargontalk  lexidiem  scam

You: Hey!

Stranger: نتاغلبفلاق

Stranger: حعقثيسبؤءرلارت

Stranger: نمبنبلتاللفصضسشءؤءارن

You: Um. I don't speak that language.

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You: Hey!

Stranger: nalan?

You: Huh?

Stranger: sorry

Your conversational partner has disconnected

Here is something I noticed. I'll tell someone I'm a girl and they disconnect. I'll tell someone I'm 15 and they disconnect. What's wwong wiff me?!? Ahhhh! Hahaha. :P

To me — absurdity is the only reality.
~ Frank Zappa

The legendary Frank Zappa (1940–1993) was a prolific American composer, musician, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than thirty years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrete works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than sixty albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. 
  
But he was also a philosopher, and is today perhaps one of the most widely quoted musicians of the 20th century. He was also a keen observer of the absurd in much of what he saw in the world, and wasn't afraid to speak what was on his mind. Here are some of his best thoughts and reflections: 

On Parenting:

• The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
  ~ Appearance on the Howard Stern Show (1987)
    
• Parents have more to do with making their children weird than TV or rock and roll records. The only other thing that makes them weirder than TV and parents is religion and drugs.
  ~ Zappa & Occhiogrosso: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)
     
• The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.
  ~ Interview with Ben Watson, Mojo Magazine ( 1993)

On Politics:

• When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.
  ~ Appearance on Thicke of the Night (1984)
    
• I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working first amendment.
  ~ Appearance on CBS Morning News (1985)
    
• The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It's moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that's happened during the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe ... When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very, very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun...
  ~ Appearance on Crossfire (1986)  

On Scientology:

• Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion? 
  ~ To a concert audience at the Rockpile, Toronto (1969)

On Rock Journalism:

• Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the inquisition.
  ~ Interview on the UK's Channel 4 (6/1/1983)
        
• The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
  ~ Interview on London Plus (1984)
    
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• Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.
  ~ Interview with Ben Watson, Mojo Magazine (1993)

On Music: 

• I'll tell you what classical music is — for those of you who don't know. Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. And it's formula music, the same as top forty music is formula music. In order to have a piece be classical, it has to conform to academic standards that were the current norms of that day and age... I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.
  ~ Television interview (1983)
    
• I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.
  ~ Interview on Nationwide (1983)
     
• A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
  ~ Zappa & Occhiogrosso: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)

On Life:

• Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
  ~ Lyrics to the song Dumb All Over on the album You Are What You Is. (1981)
     
• The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
  ~ Appearance on the Howard Stern Show (1987) 
    
• Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the bible. Who wins? 
  ~ A&E Biography
    
• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice – there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
  ~ Zappa & Occhiogrosso: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)

On Stupidity:

• Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great! 
  ~ Appearance on The Tonight Show (1988)
    
• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
  ~ Zappa & Occhiogrosso: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)

On Music Censorship:

For years Frank Zappa was clearly worried about open musical exploration, artistic integrity, and free speech. He released his ambitious ''Joe's Garage'' in 1979, which questioned what would happen if music were illegal. Six years later, the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) recommended voluntary album labeling. Joined by John Denver, and Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, Zappa went before the U.S. Congress and accused a Senate committee of fostering censorship. The PMRC had been co-founded by Tipper Gore, wife of Sen. Al Gore. Mrs. Gore's group had compiled a list of what they determined to be the worst offenders in music, dubbing them the "Filthy Fifteen."
  
It was Prince's "Darling Nikki" that set Tipper off on her crusade when she bought the artist's 'Purple Rain' album for her 11-year-old daughter and discovered (much to her horror) that the lyrics were about a teenaged girl masturbating. Zappa became Tipper's most open critic, calling her a "cultural terrorist" and branded the PMRC ''a group of bored Washington housewives'' who wanted to ''housebreak all composers and performers because of the lyrics of a few.'' 

At the hearing, he said, "the PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes on the civil liberties of people who are not children, and promises to keep the courts busy for years." He later celebrated the event in ''Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention,'' which included 12-minutes of audio excerpts from the hearing.

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In the years that followed, Zappa continued to explore various levels of musical expression. In 1982, he released "Valley Girl" on his own Barking Pumpkins label as a satire of California's shopping mall culture, which he correectly saw becoming a trend that he felt would follow for years... as it did. The recording reached #32 in the Billboard Hot 100, and featured his then 14-year-old daughter, Moon Unit.

Frank Zappa died as a result of prostate cancer on December 4th, 1993, a few days short of his 53rd birthday. He was probably the most changeable and audacious American composer of his generation. He was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame in 1994, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, the first (and to date only) artist to be inducted into both.
 
 

I saw a candle of hope lit in Chicago tonight, and heard the words flow forth:
 
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
 
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.
 
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled - Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.
 
It's the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
 
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.
 
I just received a very gracious call from Senator McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he's fought even longer and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him and Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nations promise in the months ahead.
 
I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on that train home to Delaware, the Vice President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last sixteen years, the rock of our family and the love of my life, our nations next First Lady, Michelle Obama. Sasha and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House. And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight, and know that my debt to them is beyond measure.
 
To my campaign manager David Plouffe, my chief strategist David Axelrod, and the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics - you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.
 
But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to - it belongs to you.
 
I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington - it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
 
It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to this cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generations apathy; who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers; from the millions of Americans who volunteered, and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from this Earth. This is your victory.
 
I know you didn't do this just to win an election and I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctors bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
 
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you - we as a people will get there.
 
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who wont agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government cant solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
 
What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek - it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.
 
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers - in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
 
Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House - a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, We are not enemies, but friends, and though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.
 
And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world - our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear this world down - we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security - we support you. And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.
 
For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
 
This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing - Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
 
She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons - because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
 
And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America - the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we cant, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes, we can.
 
At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes, we can.
 
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
 
When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes, we can.
 
She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that We Shall Overcome. Yes, we can.
 
A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes, we can.
 
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves - if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?
 
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we cant, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:
 
Yes, we can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.
~ President-elect Barack Obama, in Chicago, November 4th, 2008
 

(Photo courtesy of Obama for America)
 
Barack Obama's discourse has to be one of the best speeches I've ever witnessed. I parallel his words with those of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King's that were delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th, 1963. Dr. King's words were a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement, and President-elect Obama's words may well define a new beginning for our great country.
 
"Yes, we can!" And yes, we will.

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