Well, this song was the theme to The Wild Geese by Joan Armatrading from 1978! Go figure.

Anyway, I couldn't get it out of my head so I went to KaZaA and thought I'd do a search albeit a waste of time, right? Surely THAT wouldn't be on there!

I was wrong. It was. Pretty amazing really. Pretty much any song from your past can now be brought back to life in just the time it takes to download it. I was impressed. Try finding it at the stores...HA! Fat chance.

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Too much of the rest of the film is given over to a romance between Padme and Anakin in which they're incapable of uttering anything other than the most basic and weary romantic cliches, while regarding each other as if love was something to be endured rather than cherished. There is not a romantic word they exchange that has not long since been reduced to cliche.

No, wait: Anakin tells Padme at one point: "I don't like the sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating--not like you. You're soft and smooth." I hadn't heard that before.

Went to ... to download an MP4 of Episode 12

I mean, if you're into Madonna and Michael Jackson and Eminem and a few so-called 'aternatives', then you're well looked after. However, if you like something a bit older, or specialised, or something ACTUALLY 'alternative' (I love that word they use for mainstream music), then you'll have a hard time locating it, as John points out.

The chain stores do have some selection of classical and jazz, with very few staff members able to give me more than blank stares when I ask for something other than what's on the racks. My pet hate? BLANK STARES AT SHOPS, as if I'm making up stories about musicians and albums that don't exist.

What meant to say was:

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3y3 533 +h4+ b0B /\/\44r 1z \/\/311 0n h1z \/\/4y +0 b3C0/\/\1nG 4N 3133+ \/\/4r4Z d00D!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This brings back some bad memories from 1993.

I had a group of "friends" that were hackers (in the bad sense) and I never really fit in with them and they put up with me, but I don't think they ever really liked me being around. They often typed their messages in a style similar to the above. One time, I captured all the elements of their substitution style and wrote a lex program to take ordinary English and spit it out in their style.

The catch was that the group would slowly, over time, change elements of their substitution style and only the ones "in the circle" would use the new style, so that anyone else could be easily identified as an "outsider". It kind of reminds you of gangs, doesn't it? After they did this to me once, I never typed my messages in those types of styles again, and always felt negatively about them.

25 634 710EE6 60FD D2 451 0 5D6E1, C3F52D17 F6 E2DDE1 565D1F D80D 2 C0F1 4B 62D8 2F 1980.

One word I remember was "elite", the word used for people "within the circle". They wrote it many different ways over the years:

3l1t3
3l33t
3133t
31143
etc.

The word "dude" was another:

d00d
d()()d
du0d
d0ud
etc.

It's an interesting thing to watch change over time.

It's good for people to have their little typing quirks and put a little personality into their typing, especially when faced with the limitations of the ASCII character set, but some things are ridiculous.