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In light of this I was going to defend Tubthumping as still a very powerful example in the spirit of the post and I was going to use the phrase "it's a wonder so one-hit that most people who know it don't even know what it's called" which I was quite proud of, but then I looked at the notes and I think the Macarena is probably just the correct answer. It has transcended being a pop song in my mind, it's now something more like the hokey-kokey. It's actually tricky to imagine it being a commercially released song and not just like a force of nature.

what is, to you, the most stand-out powerful one-hit wonder song you know of? mine is Baby Got Back and I can't think of anything that even comes close

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I've just thought of a game thats like two truths and a lie but it's two borings and an interesting, you say three things about yourself and people have to guess which one is interesting. I'm tired and I really need to catch up on sleep tonight so unfortunately I don't have time to provide a demonstration game for my followers. It has occurred to me since the previous sentence that by adding this third sentence I can make the whole post retroactively be structured like a game of two borings and an interesting.

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So this might not be in the spirit of a one-hit wonder, but I think perhaps Tubthumping by Chumbawamba? Not because they showed up, sang it, then disappeared at all which is your traditional one-hit wonder definition, but that they were active for 20 years with a really interesting and expansive discography with many many excellent songs, and yet the only song that most people know is Tubthumping.

Also that's a cool fact thank you

what is, to you, the most stand-out powerful one-hit wonder song you know of? mine is Baby Got Back and I can't think of anything that even comes close

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There's been a study and it turns out that the last 0.1% of bacteria that soap can't kill are responsible for all human suffering. But they also write most of the theme tunes for quiz shows so it's a more complex issue than you might think.

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ok that's all of them I hope I can delete a few of these and tumblr won't get upset

(there's going to be some reblog spam here, sorry)

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Good lord thank god for my sister catching the item descriptions on the international orders

I nearly sent out ten packages to Europe labeled as “Explosive Material Hazard”

Updated them all to say “Enamel Pin” instead

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The contestants on Taskmaster are always sat in alphabetical order, which is a neat touch and a very Alex Horne sort of thing to do, except they're sat in alphabetical order by first name which drives me up the wall.

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Fuck me! i made an appointment with a specialist about getting a mole removed but i misread the sign out front and must have gone to the wrong doctor because now all my skin is made of felt. You continue reading only to discover that the punchline of my joke is the word “kermitologist”, but strangely the post continues after the playful portmantauex for another several needlessly wordy lines, which somewhat lessens the impact of the irreverent wordplay, and further distracts from the humorous muppet-surgery joke with an erroneous spelling of the word portmanteau and an incorrect usage of the word irreverent. Fuck me!

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it’s a common misconception that maths is all theoretical; they actually keep the 0 in a vault in France and u can go look at it if u got connections.

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What if one day you look at the news and are shocked to see an announcement that you, yourself, have won a Pulitzer Prize, and when you click on the article one of the judges is quoted explaining that the book you always meant to write someday but never got around to would have sucked on such a catastrophic level that they wanted to honour your contributions to literature by failing to ever write it

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playing fuck marry kill with my fellow monks and we’re just taking turns going “well. i wouldn’t do any of that.”

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this is what I wake up to every morning btw

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Images taken moments before chomp

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come and face the might of the tarawa time zone travellers!!

play mmolb with me. you want to play mmolb with me so bad. join me on the atlanta tree frogs. make your own silly little team with your own silly little guys we can draft the guys together if you want it could be a fun bonding activity. you want to play mmolb with me so bad.

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I think society has misunderstood the purpose of the S tier. When you have an S tier that comprises more items than any other tier, that's the A tier. S tier should be for stuff that is so ridiculously ahead of everything else that it warps the whole meta. Something that is merely very good or even the best can be simply A tier.