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          Correct, the source of the fever was never specified, all we know is that the only prescription was more cowbell. This was a real concern for the CDC and the WHO at the time, but the fever appeared to subside on May 21, 1976, when the song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” was released by the Blue Oyster Cult, potentially saving millions of lives.

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            And yet, the fever for which the only prescription is ‘more cowbell’ has needed to be cured in so many other recording sessions…

            My god, think of how ill The Rolling Stones must have been when they recorded Honky Tonk Women!

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    Laughter is infectious, therefore I must conclude it’s the original month python script containing the world’s funniest joke

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        I asked German translate if it could help me out, and it politely responded:

        “Das wird nicht passieren.”

        Huh.

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          It’s supposed to be the Germans version of the “funniest joke in the world” from the Monty Python sketch they were talking about in the previous comment. I’m pretty sure they made it nonsensical because they never actually say what the English version of the joke is lol almost all of them were fluent in German

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            In hindsight, I suppose I should have input “I’m dreadfully sorry, but if I translate this for you, you’ll die.”

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      No no no…it’s the tickle monster. It’s like bigfoot, 7 foot tall, hairy, and can overwhelm and overpower you. And all it wants to do is tickle you everywhere for the rest of your life.

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          By causing global warming which will eventually kill the virus, like a fever.

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            If we’re a virus, we’re like herpes. You can try to kill us, but we’ll always come back.

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              Or we’re a virus like Smallpox and we explode in size but then get eradicated.

              Sometimes things get bigger before they get smaller.

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            Every year since the Release of the original Kingsmann movie i start to think more and more, that this movies villain Idea wasnt so bad at all. Except for his “let those live who can afford it” vibes, fuck that.

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    Steps to becoming a car person: Step one - like cars. Step two - pick up a drug habit because it’s way cheaper than restoring cars.

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      I love my Prelude. I paid $2,700 for it. I could sink another $10k into it and I’d have a perfectly good Prelude worth $6,000.

      One of these days when I can stand to be out 10 grand, I’ll fix it up. For now, I’m just enjoying it as it is. It looks like butt, but it runs good.

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        Preludes are awesome! I’ve got an old Miata that I’ve had for years, similar situation. I’ve thrown a ton of money at it, full well knowing I’ll never see it back. But she’s mine, she runs great, and I have no intentions of selling.

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          Hell yeah! I’ve had mine since last summer. I had a 4 speed auto in high school and college, and I always told myself that if I could do it again, I’d get it with a stick so that’s what I managed.

          What gen Miata? I’ve been wanting to drive an NB for a long time, but I can only realistically afford to have one 20+ year old car at a time lol

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            Mine is an NA, '95. I really dig the popup headlights. 1995 was a good year IMO. First year with the bigger 1.8, and still had OBD1.

            My brother has an NB for years, so I’ve had plenty of seat time in one of those as well. They feel really similar to the NA, with better suspension travel. Great cars!

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    People always freak out over this picture but it’s just a joke about motorcycles. Bumper stickers say “Yamaha” and “Look twice for motorcycles”, but it seems to be partially torn so “for mo” is cut off.

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          It is quite definitive though. Aside from one (alleged) occurrence of a person not being cured (and it is also alleged to have worked the second time, in that case), it has never been described to fail in all of humanity’s recorded history