This was my first CD. Back in the day, I saved my pennies to buy a CD player. The prices had recently dropped, and were now down somewhere around $300. (At a time when minimum wage was $3.35/hr. It took a lot of saving.) I bought the player, only to realize that I had spent pretty much all my money and had nothing left to buy any CDs to play on it. The shop manager seemed to notice the dilemma and offered me a free CD from the rack, and I instantly grabbed Oxygene. I had several Jarre records, but not this one. It's been more than 40 years, and I still have the CD. I ended up buying a lot of CDs from that shop...
Jean Michel Jarre, Oxygene, 1977
Cover by Michel Granger
In public education, student "Permanent Records" are referred to as "Cumulative Files", or cum files for short (pronounced 'kyoom').
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thank you twitter, this is the only recommended topic post I’ll accept
First piercing was on my left lobe, first wedding anniversary, 1990. It was in a little jewelry shop on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco. Second piercing was in 1994 at a Claire's in the Mall of America. The right ear I got double pierced about a year ago at the tattoo parlor I regularly visit.
Because Al Franken has something called "integrity", which is something the other side lacks...
It's nice to see the Tri-City. I saw a lot of movies there in the early 80s.
The last picture show, Steve Fitch
When I was in high school, back in the late 1970's, my friends and I would take the bus home each day. We were the typical D&D nerds, with all that and the late 70's implies. We would mess around on the bus, having fun and causing irritation to the rich kids who couldn't drive to school because they were either too young or had their license revoked (There were a surprising number of the latter. )
After we messed around enough, the richies would chide us for acting oddly. They would call us names. So we ran with it. A sample:
My friends and I up to our usual nonsense. Rich kid points at me accusingly: "You're strange!"
Me, pointing to my friend: "No, I'm Weird. He's Strange!"
My friend pointing to his brother: "Yes! I'm Strange, and this is my brother Maladjusted!"
There were up to a dozen of us, all sporting odd monikers, just to further annoy the straights. We'd all introduce ourselves, and bring the level of irritation to a crescendo. It was great fun.
They really hate being called 'weird,' huh?
The situation: it's late, I'm tired, but I need to shower. There is a huge selection of hair care products on the bar above the shower door.
The bad news: I just decide to grab anything that says "shampoo". I mean, it's all pretty much the same, right?
The good news: the shampoo smells terrible, but apparently, I'll be free of fleas and ticks for 4 to 6 weeks.
I'm so glad you said "and". That means you must have done the entire list. I've done several, but not all...
DO NOT INTERACT, if you:
think that the violins are the best part of the orchestra, are from massachusetts, put tupperware in the bottom rack on a dishwasher, solely pee standing up, moved to florida from new jersey/new york/pennsylvania , have gone to disney as an adult, hate mint chocolate chip ice cream, shop at whole foods, put your socks on first and then your shoes (instead of sock, shoe, sock, shoe), hate mayonnaise, like my hero academia, eat your steak medium to well done, go to an ivy league school, hate salt and vinegar chips, dont like the color yellow, have blue eyes, and have EVER eaten at arby’s
They are not endangered. There are millions of them. They (and more importantly, their fusion-powered cities, space stations, lunar colonies, and antimatter-powered spacecraft) keep well-hidden, thanks to their advanced cloaking technology.
Couldn't Marjorie Taylor Greene get in contact with the people with the Jewish Space Lasers to shoot down the Russian planes over Ukraine???
I'm old enough that I'm a Tom Swift, Hardy Boys and Robert Heinlein kid.
You were either a Magic Treehouse kid, a Goosebumps kid, an Animorphs kid, or a Babysitters Club kid.
Some Signs, a Few Portents, Mostly Misdirection
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