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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 09:57 AM
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Poll question: What do you listen to during your morning commute to school/work
Me, I'm always listening to CDs because you can't find anything worth listening to on the radio. I started off with Korn's greatest hits but ultimately went back to listening to Rush's "Moving Pictures" with the volume up as far as it could go.

So what do you listen to on the radio on your commute to school/work
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 09:58 AM
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1. Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2
:hi:
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:04 AM
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2. Birdsong.
I walk to work, and there's no more pleasant sound than birds twittering to each other as I wander along.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:11 PM
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38. You bird?
:bounce:

And if so, are they all house sparrows of do you know of a good wood?
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:07 AM
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52. No I don't bird watch.
I can barely tell a sparrow from an eagle.

I do know that we have some quasi-famous red-kites around here. The woods are mainly beech in this part of the world (I don't know whether that's good or bad).
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:09 AM
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53. What county are you in?
Too bad you don't bird. :(
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:19 AM
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56. Buckinghamshire.
The most beautiful one of the lot.

I'm up in the Chilterns, definitely one of the most charming places on earth - plus easy accessibility to London as well. :D
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:05 AM
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3. I surf the radio channels
and find the songs that I like. :)
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:09 AM
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4. If I'm driving, I listen to the classical station on the way to work,
and the jazz station on the way home.

Usually I take the bus, though, so I tend to listen to a lot of cell-phone conversations.

I will be glad when I think it has become warm and dry enough for me to bike to work again.
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:10 AM
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5. Other
I like to listen to Bob & Tom on the way into work.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:12 AM
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6. my mental jukebox
I ride a bicycle to work and wearing headphones wouldn't be safe
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:13 AM
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7. It's only a 5 min walk
I usually don't bother, unless it's very cold and I'm using my headphones as earmuffs
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:13 AM
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8. Radio isn't broke, in fact it works fine, but I listen to silence
because I can't find the damn security code to unlock the stupid thing.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:22 AM
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9. Oh the horrors
:cry:

Sometimes security systems aren't all they're cracked up to be
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:55 PM
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29. Hahahaha
my wife's car is the same way.

I will not pass any judgement in this post....none :eyes:
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:27 AM
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10. AAR - KTLK
Only because some damn evangelical station overrides my beloved KXLU
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:32 AM
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11. I switch between NPR and 96 Rock (prog rock station)
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 11:00 AM by supernova
The local prog rock station, 96 Rock, is locally owned and is pretty good. The morning crew do play some music and they are not otherwise engaged in stupid publicity stunts designed to degrade or embarass people. Neither are they shock jocks.

edit: A while back this station used to have Johnboy and Billy out of Charlotte, whom I hate with a passion. I never listed in the mornings for that reason. Then they got rid of Johnboy and Billy and made this announcement:

"We realize that most of our listeners are going to NPR in the mornings, so we ditched those other guys.."
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:21 PM
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18. wow!
I wish some of the Neanderthal stations around here thought like that!


I usually listen to the local indie station, College radio or CDs.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:38 AM
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12. a shuffle of my ipod
I have a cord that connects me to my car CD player.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:41 AM
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13. i switch between air america and the other liberal stations, we have 2 now
plus i know the news reader at one of them so i always try to catch him.
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:42 AM
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14. Silence because I hate screaming morning jocks
How anyone listens to them screaming, their forced laughter, and their unfunny jokes is beyond me.

One radio program has this terrible "prank call" segment where they help one party terrorize someone else as a "joke". Yeah, real funny.

I have a CD player but all my discs get scratched up so I don't bother anymore.

I actually got an XM radio car thing, but it doesn't work with my lighter because apparently they used the lighter "circuts" to run my remote start.

oh, the horror!
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:48 AM
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15. Police band.
I need to know if I need to change into my tights and save the day.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:23 PM
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19.  and what would your superhero name be, pray tell
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:46 PM
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25. He's not supposed to give away the secret identity.
But word on the street is that he is all four members of the Fantastic Four.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:48 PM
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27. mmmm
insert "members" joke here..... it is Hedges, after all.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:50 AM
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16. Mark Riley on AAR. n/t
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:01 AM
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17. Sports Talk 610 WIP
My main man, Gargano !

Here's Ant! off the Coast of Jacksonville, last Super Bowl.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:20 PM
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32. I quit listening because of Angelo Cataldi
Than man is an asshole and personally I couldn't be bothered anymore. THey brought some girl in on that morning show and all Cataldi could do was drool all over her instead of talking the issues.
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:29 PM
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41. No Doubt. He's a Pig.
He and Rhea Hughes have been doing a "Poor Man's Stern" for over 5 years,now.

In March of 2003...the Station crossed the line...most were cheerleaders for the WAR,especially Angelo who once stated he'd drive-over protestors...of course his son, who is 23...didn't want any part of it.

After 10 am...is pretty good listening.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:44 PM
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42. OMG!!! Thank goodness I was no longer listening
The last I was listening, the rumors were going around that Cataldi was going to leave his wife for Rhea or whoever that girl was that was on the show before her. Did that happen?
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:55 PM
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44. Nah. Gail would castrate him.
He's all talk.
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:23 PM
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20. NPR and my CB radio.
no speeding tickets for me :)
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:25 PM
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21. Prattling jackanapes sitting behind me on the train
  • bragging young yuppie white boys with that stupid f#*cking 90's style wax in their hair (that was today)
  • black teenaged girls shrieking at the highest decibels known to humans (that was yesterday)
  • shreiking white girls right-out-of-college, recapping their ill-spent weekends (all summer)
  • the big fat white asbergers know-it-all who lectures his seatmate on American History and aeronautics without stopping to take a breath the ENTIRE trip
  • the middle-aged Chinese woman yelling into her cellphone the whole ride
  • the 30-something Indian women who babble the whole ride in

(at least I can tune out the latter two categories pretty easily because I don't speak Mandarin or Hindi)

Oh yes, I am indeed an equal-opportunity hater

And my radio doesn't play NPR loud enough to drown them all out.
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trogdor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:25 PM
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22. In-dash MP3 players rock.
Long live classic rock.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:39 PM
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23. CDs
Which ones vary from day to day, of course. Today I listened to The Bronx.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:40 PM
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24. I flip back and forth between CDs and the Kevin & Bean show
Sure, they're idiot jocks but they're better than a hell of a lot of idiot jocks that I've heard.
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rustydog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:47 PM
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26. Stephanie Miller: 6am commute
:toast:
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:11 PM
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45. Hell yeah!
We're Stephanie addicts in this household. :D

Let's all sing "You're a lying sack of crap..."
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Debbi801 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:49 PM
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28. Generally, CD's of my 4 yr old's choice....
since his preschool is near my office and we share the commute.

This usually means either Disney or Laurie Berkner. :rofl:
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:22 PM
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40. It's never too early to teach your children the joys of great music
My best friend has a daughter who started listening to the Doors and other classic rock music back when she was 4-5 years old. They've even taken her to see The Doors in concert (I think the lead singer of the Cult has done vocals with the remaining surviving members) and several Doors tribute shows. She was even with us when we went to see two Led Zeppelin tribute bands in NYC back in August (it was a tribute to Robert Plant's birthday. The one band sucked but the all-girl LZ tribute band was actually surprisingly good!).

As CSN&Y have so eloquently sung many times: Teach, your children well.
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pointblank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:57 PM
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30. Other
HOWARD STERN
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:58 PM
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31. My MP3 player, which is all Kritin Hersh, Throwing Muses,
50 Foot Wave and Thurston Moore at this point.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:22 PM
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33. I'm all over the place...
I switch between Air America, a rap station, a pop station, a jazz station, and a few others that I don't listen to enough to remember what they are really.

If I had a CD player it'd be that all the time, unless there was big news in which case I'd listen to AA.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:25 PM
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34. XRT in Chicago
They dont have a lame morning talk show - just music. At least when I am going to work around 9am.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:04 PM
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35. If by commute
you mean my 10 minute walk to class, it's usually ministry, in flames, or rammstein. something to get me woken up for class
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:06 PM
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36. WMNF-FM 88.5 Tampa
www.wmnf.org - the best little radio station on planet earth.
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_testify_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:07 PM
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37. I listen to my wife, since we work together we carpool!!
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:17 PM
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39. I carpool with two awesome friends so we talk the whole way.
I love my carpool!
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:01 PM
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43. Air America Radio - Rachel Madow.
Al Franken at lunch, and Ed Schultz on the way home!
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:05 AM
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46. when I go early, Rachel Madow, when I go in at 8:30, Jerry Springer
NPR in the house while getting ready because I can't get AAR in the house, just the car.


Randi on the way home
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:42 AM
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47. It varies
Often I'll listen to music either on the radio or a tape. However I'll sometimes listen to NPR or Pacifica Radio for news and commentary. It depends mostly on what kind of mood I'm in.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:44 AM
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48. Nothing. I am about twenty feet from my office.
:popcorn: :popcorn:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:44 AM
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49. Same here
:)
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:48 AM
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50. Local news, local shock jocks, or ESPN Radio
Failing that, I have my CD's.
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:52 AM
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51. Alex Bennett on Sirius Left
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:14 AM
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54. Cowbell.
Why do you ask?
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 06:16 AM
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57. Do you need more cowbell?
:shrug:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 01:26 PM
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60. I have enough to get me anywhere I need to go
But thanks! :hug:
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 01:53 PM
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62. There is no such thing as "too much" cowbell
We can always use more
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 01:59 PM
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63. I'm sorry
but I'm a little particular about the cowbell... I think the moments in which there is NO cowbell, make the moments in which there IS cowbell that much more special.
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:18 AM
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55. Ilisten to myself ranting at other drivers, and when everything runs
smoothly I might sing. I don't want a radio/CD player or the like in the car.

-----------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:08 AM
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58. This morning's commute music was Coltrane: Giant Steps.
Mahhhhvelous way to start a day. :hippie:
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 01:27 PM
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61. Mine was "Houses of the Holy" by Led Zeppelin
I'm so fricking predictable!
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Science Of Myth Donating Member (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:36 AM
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59. My job basically entails driving around for 3 hrs/night
last night it was Mr T Experience, Kid Dynamite, NOFX, Rancid, The Queers and a little Dillinger Four just before I got home. Keeps me awake anyway :)
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