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BP Search of the Week!
Please Note: See also the NEW Search of the Week!
Here you'll find actual searches done at the Blue Pyramid
that I find notable. Why are they notable? Because not only did
someone plug these into a search engine, seeking an answer to their quest (or
boredom), but they actually followed their search to the Blue Pyramid. Some
of these people are insightful without knowing it, but most of them are just
silly. Insightful are the zillions of people a day that search for some
variation on the "best books of all time", arguably the best feature
at this site (go here). Silly are all the people
looking for Statler & Waldorf memorabilia, which this site has never had
any connection to. The most notable searches, however, are the rare ones,
as follow:
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Week
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Best Search (free-form) | Best Search (quotes) | Full Quotation of Best Search (quotes) |
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27 July
- 2 August 2003 |
invited only adults to my wedding but someone is bringing their kid | "why i don't drink" | "Been reading up some more of late on Doug Hopkins. It's a
depressing experience, but then again, following most of my favorite songwriters
is. If anyone's wondering why I don't drink, this man's life has as
much to do with it as any of the other little factors." ~Introspection (5 June 2001) |
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20-26
July 2003 |
zimmy's tobacco | "20/5 vision" | "The stadium, an indoor hockey arena restructured for the concert,
was packed to the rafters & then some. We were in a section that made
me thankful for my 20/5 vision, but it was still amazing." ~Waltham Weekly (9 December 1998) |
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13-19
July 2003 |
stats on how a smile makes people feel | "united states is the roman" |
"After watching 'Gladiator' tonight, I'm even more convinced that
the United States is the Roman Empire waiting to happen. Not an
original concept, nothing new or unpredicted, but most people keep blinding
themselves to it anyway. & part of me really believes that such
was the primary message of the film. Though I'm very good at reading
in stuff that isn't really there. But either way, this society is
on the verge of a media-induced self-delusional implosion." |
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6-12
July 2003 |
tomorrow never deis | "alaska airlines commercials" | "'Cause I'm so tired, tired of waiting, tired of waiting for youuuuu...'
Unfortunately, no one 'round here has reason to remember Alaska Airlines
commercials from the early '90's in Oregon. But lord, those were amusing.
& most of them involved that song. Which for some reason comes
to mind today..." ~Introspection (25 June 2000) |
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29 June
- 5 July 2003 |
suspension hanging punishment | "highway 31" | "The Other Highway (31 July - 9 August 2002)" ~The Ray Bradbury Era (3 November 2001 - 29 August 2002) |
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22-28
June 2003 |
animated cards on heartache | "working for calpirg" | "Em got a job!!
She's working for CALPIRG, following in the footsteps (at least with
some branch of PIRG) of so many of my friends before her. They say
they anticipate a quick rise through the ranks for her, but for now she's
giving a standard rap & making me think of days gone by." ~Introspection (5 December 2002) |
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15-21
June 2003 |
of the result, which doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things anyway. remember kids, true math hardly involves numbers. it's really art. -the geekmeister © copyright 1997-2003 by marcos kobylecki ma | "problem with empiricism" | "So, anyone who
tells you there's no East Bugs outside of East is lying. Or doesn't
know better. From my experience there's ONLY East Bugs outside of
East, but that's just the problem with empiricism." ~Introspection (11 October 2000) |
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8-14
June 2003 |
fun gro beast? | "who am i why am i here" | "Who am I,
Why am I Here? My Tribute to Admiral Stockdale" ~EDPOP |
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1-7
June 2003 |
hans blitz wmd quotes | "jellybean of the month club" | "Are there more
kinds of jelly or jellybean in the world? & more to the point,
does this make a Jelly-of-the-Month club ridiculous or simply make a Jellybean-of-the-Month
club less ridiculous?" ~Introspection (24 June 2000) |
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25-31
May 2003 |
library shelving the m's | "iraqi bill of rights" | "US Defends
All-Important Right to Loot... may be added to new Iraqi bill of rights
under the Garner Regime. While US troops were busy defending oil wells
on behalf of the 'people of Iraq' (hereafter 'Exxon-Mobil Corporation'),
other Iraqis were looting historical museums of their artifacts, some of
them more than ten times as old as the United States of America." ~Introspection (17 April 2003) |
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18-24
May 2003 |
song lyrics: i should've known all along there was something wrong i just never read between the lines then i woke up one day and found you were on your way | "how many people in yahoo groups" | "After playing
much basketball m'self, it turns out that (barring disaster... everyone's
got a 20-pt. lead or something) I was 15 for 16 in my NCAA picks for yesterday.
& I seriously considered the Kent State game... I almost went
with them. Like Purdue, one always has to pick against Indiana. I'd
forgotten that. Regardless, I'm quite happy with all that - I wonder
how many people in Yahoo! groups had it perfect. So close..." ~Introspection (16 March 2001) |
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11-17
May 2003 |
why doesn't funky friends give me my password/ | "lines of vision intersect" | "This was followed
by a day at Ha'va'd in the snow, which is certainly a beautiful sight, unless
one chooses to look down 'Mass Ave', in the direction of which all lines
of vision intersect with the Science Center. The Science Center is
admittedly best described as an atrocity toward the concept of asthetics.
It's the Tienanmen Square Massacre of architecture." ~Waltham Weekly (3 March 1999) |
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4-10
May 2003 |
grade 5 adverb study sheets | "naples to ionian" | "F Tunis supp.
Naples to Ionian Sea" ~Diplomacy Game (Fall 1999/Spring 2000) (EDPOP) |
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27 Apr
- 3 May 2003 |
wonder if this will make the search of the week for storey | "3d glasses movie" | "Above, the Frontier's
main corner, at Central & Cornell SE. The glowing sign on top
of the huge yellow roof looks pretty funky through 3D glasses, as my friends
& I discovered after a 3D glasses movie one night. This view is
taken from where one makes the right turn onto Cornell to make the left
turn into the narrow but accomodating Frontier parking lot." ~The Frontier Restaurant (EDPOP) |
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20-26
Apr 2003 |
katmandu bowling | "imagination during work" | "I can never
be the type of person who faces one day like the next like the next in an
unending stream of sameness. But work schedules, almost as much as
school schedules, ask one to do just that. It just makes maximizing
one's imagination during work & one's free time after work that much
more vital. Until I have jobs where I'm really exercising my brain
(I used to say that would happen in school too... sigh), there must be things
like developing ideas & creating variation to really keep my pulse going." ~Introspection (18 March 2003) |
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13-19
Apr 2003 |
2001 superbowl as wassup alien | "hey june don't" | "Hey June, don't
make it bad..." ~Introspection (1 June 2001) |
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6-12
Apr 2003 |
sinus headaches make you act strangely | "to sell someone up the river" | "I was going
to write something here that was awfully angry & doesn't look true to
me now. But a modified version of it talks about how friendship has
a hard time getting past the urge to sell someone up the river for a well-received
joke. Sigh." ~Introspection (26 December 2002) |
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30 Mar
- 5 Apr 2003 |
10 things to do for fun in libya | "spray windex" | "As a result,
Zack's & my room has been progressively filled with little mounds of
dirt granules, & the gaps between these mounds is rapidly closing. I
figure in a few days, finding our shoes & various other items on the
floor (like my bed) will be a process of archeological discovery. Maybe
I can get out of my science requirement that way. Zack's idea for
how to solve the problem? Spray Windex (yes, Windex) throughout the
room, then wipe with paper towels. I think Zack wants our interior
sandbox to glisten in the light as it fills the room, or maybe he's just
underestimating the problem." ~Waltham Weekly (24 January 2000) |
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23-29
Mar 2003 |
oustide fun with 3 year olds | "stuffed animal buffalo" | "Final stats
on the first leg of the trip: 2,882 miles, 15 states (plus the District
of Columbia), 6 days, 5 nights, & 1 cross-country companion stuffed
animal buffalo, purchased at the 'cursed rest stop' in Connecticut. After
spending the whole trip trying to name him, we settled on the de facto appelation
of 'Buffalo'. Total trip stats will be posted once we reach the Bay
Area, but I'm ready for a break for now." ~Introspection (5 August 2002) |
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16-22
Mar 2003 |
bp bastards | "goodnight fish" | "'Goodnight fish!'.
This was after I turned the lights out on the local apartment's fishtank,
but Fish was right there. Yeah, you woulda had to be there." ~Introspection (22 May 2001) |
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9-15
Mar 2003 |
lecture teens in bootcamp | "how to meet cool people" | "Fish is currently
taking suggestions on how to meet cool people at UCSD. Please send
him ideas for clubs to join, potential jobs to get, or other more creative
methods of making good friends among good people. It will greatly
improve all our lives if you join in the effort!" ~Introspection (22 August 2000) |
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2-8
Mar 2003 |
are yale people stuck up? | "working for the future" | "It's good knowing
I'm not the only one who feels devastatingly short of my motivational goals.
Who yearns to make each moment more productive. Who demands
that much more from life & every moment & wants to stop working
for the future & start working for now to the benefit of others. Who
wants to write a book. Who can't stand America. Who believe
in absolute truth & God & teaching children. Sheesh. You'd
think there'd be more of us out there." ~Introspection (9 December 2000) |
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23 Feb
- 1 Mar 2003 |
i want to find songwriters in georgia that i can write with | "all the pretty horses analysis" | "Even more likely
to be worthwhile are the truly amusing essays, like the history essay where
my thesis argued that had the Erie Canal not been built, European powers
would have reconquered the USA by 1850, or my All the Pretty Horses
analysis which I wrote after falling 75 pages short of finishing the novel
& had lost my copy of the book (both of these travesties received A's)." ~Eire Duck's Collected Works (EDPOP) |
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16-22
Feb 2003 |
i'm going bowling with clayton | "we don't make a lot of the things you use" | "BASF, a random
company that does something (I suppose), who brought you the phrase 'we
don't make a lot of the things you use, we make a lot of the things you
use better'... the latest company in my Why-Do-THEY-Advertise? queries." ~Introspection (19 November 2002) |
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9-15
Feb 2003 |
picture of a lonely street lot | "wall mounted shoe organizer" | "If I stand in
one place too long, I start to sincerely fear being bleached or having my
liver sucked out with his ultra-high-powered vacuum. His closet, as
you may recall from last time, is color-coordinated. Even Andy is
becoming concerned that his tool-kit might be deemed too dirty to remain
in the room... this after he spent ten minutes seeking his shoes which Todd
had conveniently slipped into the new wall-mounted shoe organizer. It's
like a cloth edition of one of those sneaker-keepers from a McDonald's Playland." ~Waltham Weekly (3 February 1999) |
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2-8
Feb 2003 |
nilla wafers history | "quebec drinking age" | "Aside from the
cold, Montreal offers a wealth of night life, derived primarily from Quebec's
drinking age of 18." ~Waltham Weekly (3 February 1999) |
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26 Jan
- 1 Feb 2003 |
novii remote crack | "breaks his computer" | "Eric, a guy
living across the hall from the Berkeley area, offered to plug in our game
to the computer Monopoly program he has & let the comp play it out.
So, we set up our game on his comp, dollar-for-dollar & let it
fly. When it hadn't been resolved by 2:30, he promised to let it run
all night so Greg could get some sleep. He's just slightly fiercly
competitive & I (as all of you know, I'm sure) am just a teensy bit
stubborn. So, finally, at 8:30 am, Eric gets up to report that I have
$200,000, Greg has $400,000, & he's shutting it off to end the madness
before it breaks his computer." ~Waltham Weekly (16 September 1998) |
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19-25
Jan 2003 |
i need to know how i feed a duck | "picture of a centipede" | "The East Quad
Office now has a picture of a centipede on its doorsign. How uncool
is that?" ~Introspection (13 September 2000) |
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12-18
Jan 2003 |
where can i find pictures of people with crazy colors in their hair?? | "i regret everything" | "I regret EVERYTHING." ~Introspection (18 July 2000) |
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5-11
Jan 2003 |
how much money do sociology majors make? | "pain is universal" | "Russ is awesome!
I think Maynes deflected my understanding of this for too long. Ironic
that all this comes on the weekend I related to Maynes the most. But
I seem to be relating to ALL SORTS of people the past couple weeks. Pain
is universal like rarely before. Okay, that's not fair. As Buddha
pointed out, pain is universal & has been for just about ever. But
it seems really exceptionally prevalent the past couple weeks, all over
the place." ~Introspection (17 April 2000) |
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29 Dec
2002 - 4 Jan 2003 |
phil's transmission, corvallis, or | "hope is just around the corner" | "24 hours...
count 'em & weep. I'm that close. Relief, I hope, is just around
the corner..." ~Introspection (19 April 2000) |
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22-28
Dec 2002 |
brandeis commies | "chucking me in" | "Thereafter,
without passing Go or collecting $200, I'll head for sandy San Diego to
see the Fishmonger. He, for the record, also will still have school
at that time. He'll probably punish me for making fun of this fact
by just chucking me in the Pacific (the beach is something like 65 centimeters
from Fish's suite) or sending me to Bio class, where all the same rules
of GA-Tech apply." ~Waltham Weekly (13 May 1999) |
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15-21
Dec 2002 |
kia windshield wiper problem | "world's best restaurant" | "Keep in mind
that any criticisms of the Frontier are likely inspired more by jealousy
for the world's best restaurant than by any sort of validity." ~The Frontier Restaurant (EDPOP) |
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8-14
Dec 2002 |
emu mating | "why americans vote" | "Maybe we're
just afraid that the CIA is keeping records of everyone's 'secret' ballot
& the winning President will rage against all who voted against him.
I honestly think that would be the most rational explanation for why
Americans vote behind a curtain but act as if they're voting in a neon-light-lined
glass booth, with each of their picks announced via satellite on CNN." ~Eire Duck's Election Commentary (EDPOP) |
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1-7
Dec 2002 |
paul simon chevy chase call me al video history | "the need to socialize" | "Needless
to say, I think that the need to socialize only in such formalized settings
is simply a social relic & not the harbinger of the end of our communities." ~Introspection (31 October 2002) |
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24-30
Nov 2002 |
charles heston have you seen me here before | "silly online quizzes" | "So
I broke down & took the latest of these silly online quizzes... this one
was about New Year's Resolutions. I won't put the graphic on here,
because I don't like mucking up this page with graphics, but I will tell
you that not only was my NYR supposed to be 'Incite a revolution through
[my] art', but the graphic depiction is a stick-figure standing on a hillside
yelling at people. The stick-figure yells 'Stop being stupid!' &
the faceless crowd yells back 'Okay!'. Now THAT's creepy... these
people have my perspective on the world nailed. See what you get..." ~Introspection (19 February 2002) |
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17-23
Nov 2002 |
shmistory | "fink means good bread" | "Passing
a truck that said 'FINK means good bread' may have been about the best thing
to happen in the nine hours of van time. In fact, it may have been
one of the funniest catalysts of the semester, or year, or millennium so
far (by default). My lungs & gut still ache a little from all that
hilarity. Nothing like translational humor." ~Introspection (17 April 2000) |
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10-16
Nov 2002 |
thanksgiving turkey's perspective | "the point in trying" | "Kate,
there's really nothing you can do. So don't worry about it. It's
been well-established that I'm neurotic... I have had long conversations
with my Mom, Schneider, & Fish in the last 24 hours about how I don't let
anything go & don't see the point in trying to. That's just my way.
If I want to do things the hard way, there's nothing any of you can
do to wrench that away from me. & yes, the hard way hurts. A
lot, sometimes. But it's what I've chosen for myself, it's the only
way I know how to live, & the only way I can see trying to live. &
I don't want no delusions, neither. Don't worry - I'll be fine. In
my own little neurotic way." ~Introspection (19 July 2000) |
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3-9
Nov 2002 |
fun stuff to do in waltham | "mormon secret wedding" | "Congratulations
are in order to Charles Heinberg & Krystal Rogers, who were married 4 days
ago. They were planning a big Mormon-style August wedding in Salt
Lake, but (not surprisingly), it was a wee bit too stressful. A crisp
twenty says Charles & the Mormon 'secret-wedding' crew were not hitting
it off big-time. So they functionally eloped, & are now probably awfully
happy. Friends who bought tickets in advance for August are probably
less happy." ~Introspection (24 June 2001) |
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27
Oct |
can my roomate have a video camera without my permission | "the last thing i expected" | "Ways
to minimize time spent at the library: I went up to the reserve desk,
flipped through endless computer-print-out pages of book-codes, & end up
finding the one book I'm looking for. I'm about to write it down when,
looking at the scrap paper on which I'm about to write, I see the code I'm
about to write already pencilled in. The sense of tranquility I've
been feeling was immediately magnified. I feel imbedded in this calm
state of inner peace, like people & life may rush on around & around, but
I can just calmly spectate & do just fine. This is the last thing
I expected to feel right now, but I'll take it. I am so ready to leave." ~Introspection (1 May 2000) |
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20-26
Oct 2002 |
are baklava's good for you? | "east bug" | "So
I saw my first-ever East Bug today. But it wasn't in East. It
was precisely the beetle/centipede combo, but far less intimidating than
your average 'pede, kinda big & squarish & scuttling across the floor of
the Gym. Yes, that's right, the Gym. Which is kinda distant
from East, if you know your 'Deis geography. So, anyone who tells
you there's no East Bugs outside of East is lying. Or doesn't know
better. From my experience there's ONLY East Bugs outside of East,
but that's just the problem with empiricism." ~Introspection (11 October 2000) |
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13-19
Oct 2002 |
vernal pool jokes | "mayonnaise man" |
"Not pictured
but still spiffy are Benji Brandzy, Nivey-Nive, the Gard-dawg, BeckerBoy,
Shwin-P, Next-Door Manor, & of course the ubiquitous 'Debate Kids', who
include Zirkinism, Rusty, Zim-Zim the Mayonnaise Man, Wheelchair Wilson,
Bad Man Brad & many others, some of whom will join us in the coming year." |
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6-12
Oct 2002 |
gris gone wild on campus | "i got a million friends" |
"'I got a friend
who spends his life |
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29
Sep
- 5 Oct 2002 |
subarus in albuquerque | "georgia tech of the north" | "The
weekend just past (a couple days past, I s'pose) was filled with the debate
tournament at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affectionately
known by civilians as MIT (or, for Jaque's sake, the 'Georgia Tech of the
North')." ~Waltham Weekly (9 December 1998) |
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22-28
Sep 2002 |
2003 mardi gras new orleans, balcony parties | "concept of asymptotes" | "Just
wasn't meant to write tonight. When I say 'tonight', I mean what most
of you might call 'this morning', considering that I'm talking about 1-4
in the morning on this very day. I really wanted to write something
about the half moon & the concept of asymptotes, considering that I kept
driving towards it & it kept feeling further from me, like the end of a
rainbow or something. Maybe it'll have to develop over time." ~Introspection (26 April 2000) |
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15-21
Sep 2002 |
john schneider role model | "waterproofing shoes" | "Finally,
for those of you who recall our high school episodes with 'waterproofing'
shoes, all of ours failed the test." ~Waltham Weekly (13 October 1998) |
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8-14
Sep 2002 |
insanely lonely | "hate kinko's" | "I
hate Kinko's!! Bastards! They've flipped one set of pages &
actually LEFT OUT another!" ~Introspection (7 August 2001) |
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1-7
Sep 2002 |
trendy headwear | "boy who cried sheep" | "From
a few days ago, Brandzy has dubbed me 'the boy who cried sheep'. He's
actually using that slogan far too much nowadays." ~Introspection (7 November 2000) |
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25-31
Aug 2002 |
ye olde jaker | "picture of a roman centurion" | "Fish
covers his Roman Centurion hair with a beatnik hat I saw him buy at UCSD.
Go look up a picture of a Roman Centurion's hat on the internet...
that's EXACTLY what Fish's hair looks like." ~Introspection (23 June 2001) |
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18-24
Aug 2002 |
indian roommate in waltham | "simon finger" | "By
now, the core group planning this was a fairly funky bunch which included
Kelly from upstairs, a loose cannon at best, & Simon Finger of the Albuquerque
Academy class of '96, now with shorter hair (slightly ironic) & the same
old relaxed but sharp demeanor." ~Waltham Weekly (2 April 1999) |
NOTE: While
this list begins with searches from mid-August, this feature page was started
in late September. The BP just offers you a few retro searches to get
you warmed up.
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