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literally buying the criterion dvd of this nerdos

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nita getting hecka conceived right here y'all

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look at these wannabe billy corgans

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part of me is like 'oh man how great was Vinyl going to get when it hit Disco 79 mode' and then i do the math and realize it wasnt going to be very great at all.

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also seriously if i could dance like they do at :19 i might even leave the house.

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the only thing thats real here is alien movies scare me so ill never watch them i saw alien 3 at like 10 and im out we see you fincher and my mom went to the same boarding school as sigourney she was a few years older and apparently a trouble maker who got caught smoking and hanging out with boys ethel walkers distinguished alumni

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she seems a bit old in Alien to be in boarding school in 1979 bro

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whatever nerd age she was in boarding school its not mothers day for a week i dont have to learn that shit for like 5 more days

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SPEAKING OF NITA

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this one goes out to scooter.

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In 1979, Downtown Julie Brown made the leap from a factory floor in Bridgend onto the world stage by winning the UK and World Disco Dancing Championships.

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http://www.narsil.org/index/peopl/jimmycarter/killerrabbit

President Jimmy Carter and the "killer rabbit"

http://i.imgur.com/O42sjUf.jpg
The rabbit.
Photo courtesy of Jimmy Carter Library

April 20th, 1979

On a fishing trip in Plains, Georgia, President Carter had an encounter with a "swamp rabbit". This seemingly trivial event was seized upon by the press and became a sort of Rorschach test of the Carter presidency: reporters and commentators saw in this story whatever they wanted to see in Carter's administration. Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary, described the affair in his 1986 book The Other Side of the Story:

It began late one afternoon in the spring of 1979. The President was sitting with a few of us on the Truman Balcony. He had recently returned from a visit to Plains, and we were talking about homefolks and how the quail were nesting and similar matters of international import.

Suddenly, for no apparent reason -- he was drinking lemonade, as I recall -- the President volunteered the information that while fishing in a pond on his farm he had sighted a large animal swimming toward him. Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a rabbit. Not one of your cutesy, Easter Bunny-type rabbits, but one of those big splay-footed things that we called swamp rabbits when I was growing up.

The animal was clearly in distress, or perhaps berserk. The President confessed to having had limited experience with enraged rabbits. He was unable to reach a definite conclusion about its state of mind. What was obvious, however, was that this large, wet animal, making strange hissing noises and gnashing its teeth, was intent upon climbing into the Presidential boat.

The President then evidently shooed the critter away from his boat with a paddle. The scene was captured on film by a White House photographer.

The incident might have died of natural causes but for the fact that Powell himself later passed the story along to the press:

Several months later I was chatting with Brooks Jackson, one of the White House correspondents for the Associated Press, over a cup of tea, as I remember. For reasons that I still do not fully understand, I told him about the President and the rabbit. I was the one who leaked the killer rabbit story.

Although an experienced reporter, Brooks also failed to appreciate the significance of what he had heard. He did not rush to file an "urgent" story. In fact, he continued the conversation for some period of time and several more cups of tea. Not until the next day did he get around to sending this gripping account out over the wires to a waiting public. And even then it was a pleasant, lighthearted piece. Although he may not admit it now, I had the definite impression at the time that Brooks thought it was nothing more than a mildly amusing incident, too.

We were soon corrected. The Washington Post, exercising the news judgement that we in the White House had come to appreciate so keenly, headed the piece President Attacked by Rabbit and ran it on the front page. The more cautious New York Times boxed it on page A-12. That night, all three networks found time to report the amazing incident. But that was just the beginning.

It was a nightmare. The story ran for more than a week. The President was repeatedly asked to explain his behavior at town hall meetings, press conferences, and meetings with editors.

There was talk of a suit under the Freedom of Information Act to force release of the picture showing the President, paddle and rabbit in close proximity.

Shortly after the Reagan administration took office, they stumbled upon a copy of the picture -- apparently while searching for a foreign policy -- and reopened the old wounds by releasing it to the press.

http://i.imgur.com/f6XlxMm.jpg
President Carter and the swamp rabbit
Photo courtesy of Jimmy Carter Library

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