1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

Computer Suicide, by everlyn
I loves me some Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and I can frequently be counted on to be the voice of doom. Also, insanity. Either way, the icon makes for a warning tag that the opinion being stated is at odds from the standard one.

Consistency is Overrate, by bookloversdiary
I am female, and thus of the gender commonly regarded as indecisive. Changing opinions is like wanting your cake and having it too. (Does anyone else wonder where this statement came about from? It's your cake, why can't you have it?) So people in general, me in particular, have no qualms with changing our minds about what we want for dinner. After we've ordered. (Also, I have this internal timer I set when John's playing WoW. It could be an hour, it could be five minutes. But after it goes off, I wander off. This strikes me as rather feline behavior...)

Mock Fandom, by snarkel
I needed something to use as a movie/book/tv show/whatever snarky review icon. Han was the best I could find, amidst a bevy of "My fandom..." icons. (Such as "My fandom turned into a 'Best of Queen' tape", which all Good Omens fans will find amusing, and so will everyone else, but they'll be wondering where the quote is from. I think I also have a 'MY FANDOM SPEAKS ONLY IN CAPITAL LETTERS', for the Discworld fan in me. But I haven't loaded it.) But I hold little sacred, and so I mock. Especially things like Hercules Versus the Moon Men.

Diplomat, by pouring_icons
I'm not even certain I've read the Discworld book this is taken from (I only have eight or so, and I actually haven't finished Guards, Guards...). But I'm not known for being tactful (my main way of doing so is by keeping my mouth shut), so this pokes gentle fun at me or whomever I am replying to. And sometimes Margret, who once called to ask if I wanted a used book for my birthday. (Really, none of the S-B girls are good with tact, but it's toss up between Margret and E about who's worse.)

Authority, by iconsbycurtana
In my head, this icon goes by "I'm the alpha male!", which is a running joke over at Maya and Crystal's place, because even though there's two guys living with them and Maya's the one bringing in the money and paying the bills, Crystal's the alpha male. So this is my "because I said so" icon. Fear it. Respect its authority. And Fifth Element provides the perfect screencap for right amount of authority I exude.

Unhelpful, by iconsbycurtana as well
My advice, let me share it with you.

As with all memes, ganked from a friend who ganked from a friend, etc, etc, etc, and so on and so forth. Go to Google and type your first name then type "needs"...then list the first 10 things about you from the various websites and descriptions used. Then share.

Replete with snarking, because it makes memes all the funner.

1. Katharine needs to learn to keep her mouth shut. (Ha. Opposite problem, actually.)
2. Katharine needs your help. (Ah, the ubiquitous you. Do I even know you?)
3. Katharine needs our prayers. (Needs them stuffed up your humbler-than-thou asses, perhaps. I hate that. 'We'll pray for you!' I'd rather someone say 'I'll keep you in my thoughts' for whatever trouble needs praying for. Otherwise there's this 'oh, look, my prayers for your health worked! My God is the bomb!' and not 'oh, look, human ingenuity cured cancer. I knew someone had to get it right sooner or later.' Hm, I possibly have found another hidden soapbox inside of my 'Stance on Religion' soapbox. What would you call a soapbox inside a soapbox? ...)
4. Katharine needs to put out a Christmas album. (Who is this Katharine McPhee person and why has she stolen my Christmas music?)
5. Katharine needs a home. (Caitlin called my room a college dorm. *weeps*)
6. Katharine is one to watch. (I think this is some American Idol article. They stole my Christmas music too. Possibly Katharine McPhee is a contestant? I am now voiding all links to American Idol and Ms. McPhee from this list, because the next one talks about being booted out and the one after that tells me to stand up straight and the next one says I need my morning coffee and the next link after that says I'm a talentless whore. That last one might be someone's myspace page.)
7. Katharine needs a man. (That is not any better! Curse you, fanfiction.net, and your CSI fanfics!)
8. Katharine needs good food and comfortable furniture. (Oh, I like that one. I'm keeping it, especially because the rest of the article is about my relationship with Spencer Tracy. And by 'my relationship', I mean Katharine Hepburn's. Don't you love astrology sites?)
9. Katharine needs no explanations. (She can make up better lies anyway.)
10. Katharine needs another coat. (I think the article is about a fashionista, but I would never say no to warm outerwear. Unless it was ugly.)

E. posted this ages ago, and I'm sure you've forgotten it by now, but I was bored and wanted to listen to music. The actual rules of the meme say to put your ipod on shuffle and fill in the blanks from there, but trying to find a song that matches makes it more fun.
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Those books that sit on the shelf and make you look smart (in theory, right?) Bold the ones you've read; italicize the ones you read for school; underline the ones you didn't finish or are sitting on the shelf waiting for a free week.
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Dear jachyra,

I don't really know how to tell you this, but I dislike you. I think I realized it when your dwarf bit me outside of Chicago and I saw you carve your initials into my avocado plant. I'm sure you're man enough to understand that I did a sex-change. I'm returning your ring to you, but I'll keep your left ear as a memory. You should also know that I always wanted to break a new life as a clone.

Good luck on your short-term leave from jail,
-Elf

( The words to fill in the blanks. )

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies
2. Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie
3. Post them for everyone to guess
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed
5. No googling/using IMDB search functions!

Now with answers for the memorizational-impaired.


1. "I'm gonna count to five..."
"I'm gonna count to three." Transformers, jachyra

2. "Do not feel sad. It is alright. Many things cannot fly. Rocks, trees, sticks, Spike..." The Land Before Time carmenwoods (They're up to thirteen, btw)

3. "It's because I'm white, isn't it?"
"Larry's white."
"Larry's not white. Larry's clear."
Space Jam

4. "The Audrey Two is not a healthy girl."
"Strictly between us - neither is the Audrey One."
Little Shop of Horrors

5. "Pretty much touch anything, and you get your head chopped off."
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

6. "Well, I didn't get a good look at his face. I'm not made of eyes!"
Hot Fuzz

7. "Via con dios."
"And a via con diablos to you, too, sir."
Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight

8. "Tony wants to sell you this. He says he found it in a dumpster."
"He keeps stealing from people, they're gonna find him in a dumpster."
Die Hard With a Vengeance

9. "Don't shoot yourself. Don't shoot each other. And especially... don't shoot me."
Grindhouse: Planet Terror

10. "My friend here is trying to convince me that any independent contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when it was destroyed by the Rebels." Clerks, pariahsdream

11. "Are you trying to be funny, or do you think I'm stupid?"
"I wasn't trying to be funny."
Holes

12. "You had a part people loved. I mean, my TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my BOOBS and how they fit into my suit. No one bothered to ask me what I do on the show." Galaxy Quest, pariahsdream

13. "Margaret has always wanted to travel."
"I know. She's heading an expedition to China shortly. I'm to go as her servant. But only on the understanding that I am to be very badly treated."
"What will your duties be?"
"Sword fighting, obviously, administering rum and swabbing."
"And which of these will take precedence?"
"Swabbing, I imagine." Sense and Sensibility, pariahsdream

14. "Fix your boobs; you look like a bleedin' Picasso!"
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

15. "When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a 'roaring rampage of revenge.' I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one." Kill Bill Vol. 2 pariahsdream

The Recipe For Elf

3 parts Impishness 2 parts Drive 1 part Warmth Splash of Tolerance Sip slowly on the beach

I plead innocent.




Lee and I have definitely lived together too long if we're getting the same animal for this.

Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

Frank Glazer's
Command Decisions

1. USS Burden R. Hastings
2. American Shoal Light
3. Asp
4. The Laundry
5. Cape Jeremy
6. Temple Of Heaven
7. Epip
8. Austin Black Senators
9. Doctor Glitternight
10. Cyclobalanopsis lamellosa
11. Burlestone
12. Narrowband Modem
13. Acadians
14. Hexactinellid Sponge
15. Clubbed Thumb

You can always find the weirdest stuff on wikipedia.

Step 1: Open up whatever MP3 program you use and add every song in your collection.
Step 2: Put it on random.
Step 3: Pick your favorite lines from the first 20 songs that play.
Step 4: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from .
Step 5: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 6: DON'T GOOGLE THEM!

I'm also amused that my last one never did get completely solved.

( Cuz it's lengthy )

[] You hate the world.
[X] You hate society.
[] You think vampires are cool.
[X] You write poetry. [Look down a few lines]
[] you have dyed your hair black.
[] You wear black eyeliner.
[] You write poetry that's not for school. (Does it count if I used to?)
[] You are freakishly obsessed with darkness.
[X] You think love is a waste of time.
[] You've given up on the world.

total: 3

[X] You've shopped at Hot Topic. (Actually, I just go in there every once in awhile and look around. I don't remember if I've actually bought anything.)
[] You've spent over $100 at Hot Topic.
[] You wear more bracelets than a Russian... (Do they wear a lot?)
[] You own a dog collar, that's not for your dog
[X] You're extremely pale. (This is not emo. This is common sense. When you lot die of skin cancer, I shall still be young and beautiful.)
[] You are a member of a poetry site.
[] Your screen name has been an oxymoron. [ex: cold fire] (I don't get it.)
[] You are an atheist or agnostic. (I don't believe in religion. I do believe there's something greater than us out there, if only because we kinda suck, and maybe aliens are smarter.)
[] You worship Satan.
[] Your screen name has/had X's in it. (Still not getting it.)

total: 2

[X] You have been referred to as scary. (It's not my fault my teeth are pointy.)
[X] You have been referred to as demented. (I like thinking outside the box, thank you very much.)
[X] You have been referred to as weird.
[] You have been known to hate teachers.
[X] You have been known to cause trouble. (I like arguments, provided I don't have to actually be part of them.)
[] Your hair has been dyed a color that was not natural.
[] You have at least one photoshopped picture on myspace.
[X] You think pictures look better in greyscale or sepia tone. (Stop laughing. Sepia looks cool.)
[X] You have been referred to as evil. (Pointed teeth does not make me scary.)
[] You are scared of yourself sometimes.

total: 6

[] Suicide has crossed your mind- but you wouldn't do it.
[] you have screamed before
[X] You use big words that no one has ever heard before on occasion (More like I circumlocute the word for half an hour before it finally comes to me and I pop it out, only to have people stare weirdly because the conversation has moved on.)
[] you've seen The Exorcist.
[] You liked The Exorcist.
[] You've seen Saw.
[] You liked Saw.
[] You've done voodoo
[] You hate sports with the fieriest passion possible.
[] You dress up as the most morbid thing posssible on Halloween.

total:1

[] Halloween is one of your favorite holidays. (The candy is nice, the trick-or-treaters, not so much.)
[X] You have an obsession with fire. (Shiny...)
[X] You have only a couple of friends (Nobody really has more than a couple friends. Anything beyond that is just people you can identify and hold conversations with without beating each other to death.)
[] You're not afraid of spiders
[X] You have had a conversation about how you want to die. (Women are poisoners and wrist-slitters. Of course, statistics are only as logical as the person reviewing them.)
[] You've painted your nails black
[] One or more of your myspace pics have writing on them. (Huh?)
[] You have had the word "........" in your display name.
[X] You love art. (Apparently only emo people like art.)
[] You like art with negative meanings

total: 4

final: 16 x 2 = 32% Emo

Which could probably be worse if I was one of those people who followed trends.

I just spent half an hour clicking through pictures going "oooh, pretty" (or "ew, naked" in some cases...)

( My Interests Collage! )

Reply and I'll give you a letter, then you have to find and post 10 songs that start with that letter. (Though I think it'd be funnier if you tried numbers.)

pariahsdream gave me 'P'. I think she thought I'd have a hard time with it. She forgets I have eight radio stations set to five different genres of music. So ha.

1. "Piano Man" - Billy Joel
2. "Push It" - Garbage
3. "Pure and Simple" - Lightning Seeds
4. "Picture Perfect" - Angela Via
5. "Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park" - Tom Lehrer
6. "Pacing the Cage" - Jimmy Buffett
7. "Paper Bag" -Anna Nalick
8. "Pretty Woman" - Roy Orbison
9. "Physical" - Olivia Newton-John
10. "Pieces of You" - Jewel

You know, I could've always copped out and done Disney. "Part of Your World" or "Prince Ali"
Even better, I could've done all those piano concertos.
Plus, repeated artists. (Olivia also has "Please Mister Please" and Jimmy Buffett has "A Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling".)

Order of yoinking. Kendre to Liz to E. to Stephen to Carmen. I think I'm behind on the meme.

Here's a list of 178 movies. SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 70, you have no life. Number the ones you've seen. List score in subject and repost.

[editted 01/15/08]
( Pass the popcorn. )

Since the first go-round was so much fun. =)

Bonus points for naming the character(s) who said it. (Extra bonus points for doing it "that one dude in that one movie with the shades" because you forgot/never heard the character's name.)

Now with answers for the memorizational-impaired.

1. "I'm as a fresh as a daisy."
"You look more like a black-eyed Susan." The Quiet Man, Squire Danaher and Sean Thornton pariahsdream
They both looked pretty bad, if you ask me. Cross-country beatings do that.
My father's favorite movie of all time, and supposedly the reason I'm named Katharine Mary

2. "My Morse code is so rusty I could be sending him the dimensions of the playmate of the month." Hunt For Red October, the one dude who drove the boat who was a cowboy jachyra
I find this hilarious, even more so in context.

3. "Who knows, in a thousand years, even you may be worth something." Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Belloq (To Indy) e_heidi_liz
But probably not.
(Also from this movie:
"Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?"
"Try the local sewer.")

4. "Fuck you- what the fucking fuck- who the fuck- fuck this- fucking how did you two fucking fucks... fuck!"
"Well, it certainly illustrates a diversity of the word." Boondock Saints, Rocco and Connor pariahsdream
It amuses me.

5. "Water which is too pure has no fish."
Bulletproof Monk
You suppose there's this book of proverbs that all wise Chinese monks pull these things out of, complete with analyses of what the hell they're supposed to mean?

6. "I think we lost something."
"Not to worry, we are still flying *half* a ship!" Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, Anakin and Obi-Wan pyrokitty714 (I can't decide if Pug was pretending he didn't know it- so would I- or honestly didn't know)
The sad thing is, they were paid to make this movie. They should've paid us to watch it, the bastards. 'Not to worry, we still have half our audience still in the theater.'

7. "Look... we can't have any firing in there. I, uh... I want you to collect magazines from everybody."
"Is he fuckin' crazy?"
"What the hell are we supposed to use man? Harsh language?" Aliens, some Marine-type people
Tempest
Flamethrowers, actually. The first time I ever saw one was this movie.

8. "My authorization code is E-A-T-M-E."
Alien Resurrection
I want to see that actually be the code sometime. That'd be funny.

9. "You mean they ate each other up?"
"They had to, in order to survive."
"Honey..."
"Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV."
"See, it's OK. He saw it on the television."
The Shining
Sad to say, this is true. Television is teacher, not the parents, nowadays.

10. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." Blade Runner, white-haired guy pyrokitty714
Completely depressing movie, from the beginning to the end, especially since I've only seen the director's cut. Except for this one time I came across it ending on cable, and it was bright and sunny and green and I thought 'wtf' and continued my channel surfing.

11. "You'll be back over here in five minutes."
"I'll be asleep in five minutes." Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Willie and Indy pyrokitty714
One of the most irritating female characters I have ever come across. Mostly because it was an otherwise fun movie, and screeching women are serious negative points on the Elf movie meter.

12. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." Doctor Strangelove, Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The Bomb, the President pugtor
Not a particularly funny movie so much as Orwellian, or Heinlein-ian, though less so of Heinlein, since he thinks he's funny and he's not, while Orwell is just 'that is so true' funny-not-funny. But that line is just so hilarious.

13. "Random thoughts for Valentine's day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap." Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joel pariahsdream
Not particularly fond if this movie, but I love the little mental notes and asides the narrator has. Though it's too linear to be my side notes. "Are we the dining dead?" Hee.

14. "Where'd you get the coconuts?" Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Soldier who likes birds pugtor
Anything I say would be a dead giveaway.

15. "I'm a fucking surgeon with this shotgun." Kill Bill, hotel assassin carmenwoods
You've got to wonder how. [edit]Still wondering how.[/edit]

16. "Yvette, will you attend to the Colonel and give him anything he requires.... Within reason, that is." Clue, Wadsworth pyrokitty714
Tim Curry is hilarious. Though I'm not sure who's seen this...

17. "You mean to tell me that in a fit of jealousy you wrote your wife a love letter?" Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddy Valiant pariahsdream
I can't remember if I liked this movie or not. It's not my kind of funny.

18. "It's disgraceful, you're old enough to be her... her grandfather."
"Well, I'm as human as the next man."
"Dad, I *was* the next man." Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Jones boys pyrokitty714
I wince every time I watch this scene, but could you really blame the girl? Woof.

19. "You don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium. Did you rip that off?"
"Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shiny bomb-casing full of used pinball machine parts." Back to the Future, Marty and Doc pugtor
They had an interesting time filming, seeing as how the tall guy and short guy had trouble managing to fit into the camera frame without things being cut off. It's worse than Liz being eye level with her food at the kitchen table.

20. "Why won't you help me? Why must you always speak in riddles?"
"Because I be, what I be. I would tell you what you want to know if I could mum, but I be a cat. And no cat anywhere, ever gave anyone a straight answer." Last Unicorn, Molly Grue pugtor
Bonus points if you beat the CSC girls to getting this one.

Bonus: Name *every* Star Wars character who had a 'bad feeling about this.' pugtor is a geek. His prize- name every other movie that has that line. >=)

I'm hurt that Liz skipped me over for E, and that Carmen didn't notice I wasn't tagged at all. *cries* This also means I know nobody to tag besides the twins...

--Rules: The starter sets a topic and posts the answers in his/her own blog and then passes it to another 5 people (with their names attached at the end of the entry), then those 5 people being tagged have to state the name of the "tagger" and write the answers in their own blog and pass on to another 5 people...

Topic: My Weird Habits

1. I read. I read everything. The back of cereal boxes, the French assembly directions, stall doors, the romance novel left lying around, ingredients lists, junk mail, the Playboy in the bathroom at work. (They have the awesomest blonde jokes. But I'm not E, so I'm not repeating them. Suffice to say 'how many blondes does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two but I don't know how they got in there' is the cleanest they get.) It doesn't matter if I like it or not, I have to read it, and I have to finish it. Or the world will end.

2. Twitchy fingers. They chip at paint, at fingernails, at my lips, at glue, scratch at non-existent itches, draw invisible pictures on nearby surfaces, trace freckles into designs, and of course, the joint-popping. (Liz and I once cracked our knuckles in unison when Pug commented on the habit. That was amusing.) My fingers must be doing something. Of course, all of me is twitchy, it's just that focusing the twitchy into the fingers means I can sit still for very long periods of time and not notice it.

3. Talking during a movie. I can't stop, sorry. I multitask at everything, and movie multitasking is picking out details and telling everyone else about them. Why does the summary for Wild, Wild Planet say astronauts must face 'an army of inflatable women' if there are no blow-up dolls? Why does no one else wonder about the magical bagel/waffle in America's Sweethearts? Quit shushing me, you already know how the entire movie goes! See the rest of it, the small pieces of it you can't be *bothered* to watch because they aren't what the movie is about. Life's not about the plot- the plot's always the same; it's about the litle things ao easily missed if you aren't looking for them.

4. I don't wear shorts, except sometimes to bed. I get cold way too easily, and I'd rather be a little warm in pants during the walk between car and building than be freezing my knees off for hours on end in air-conditioned rooms. So my room is kept at the temperature I like (which would probably cause Liz to break out in a sweat if she was ever in it for half an hour), and I wear sweaters and pants and layers whilst in the rest of the world.

5. Seriousness. No matter how many jokes I crack, I take everything said at face value. I get calls at work from one of the guys at the other shop, and because I never recognize his voice, he can say he's Fred from Home Depot or Mike from the pizzeria and I'll pass the message along to Dad and let him figure out who it is. I don't have the time to waste deciding if you're trying to be funny or not; so if I don't get it, it obviously wasn't your sad attempt at a joke, you were being serious and I'll try to be likewise.

It's not finding movie quotes that's hard. It's finding movie quotes where Liz can't quote entire sections of the movie. (Thankfully, my love of bad B-movies means that some of these will not have yet been seen by her. One hopes.)

Movie quote meme:
[1] Pick 20 of your favorite movies.
[2] Pick a few lines of dialogue.
[3] As people guess the film, strike out that entry (and put the movie title, and who got it).

Now with answers for the memorizational-impaired.

1. " I've got a new word for "stupid" now: "Ridley"! This is the Ridleyest thing I've ever heard!" the movie that dares not speak its name, pugtor

2. "What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world." Jurassic Park, pyrokitty714

3. "I mean it's not supposed to be like this." "It's not supposed to be anything."
Pleasantville

4. "I have one word for you. Plastics." The Graduate, tkie

5. I'm on planet X looking for a dweeb." Stargate, pyrokitty714

6. "Give me some sugar, baby." Army of Darkness, jachyra

7. "The universe provides." "The universe provides a boat?" "And a blue tarp!"
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection

8. "I think I'm a sofa..." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy carmenwoods

9. "God's a kid with an ant farm, lady. He's not planning anything." Constantine, pugtor

10. "Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst." Starship Troopers, jachrya

11. "He's not your friend, he's ours! If somebody's gonna kill him, it should be us!" Akira, carmenwoods

12. "I only lied about being a thief, I don't do that anymore." "Steal?" "Lie." Ocean's Eleven, pariahsdream

13. "That's the second time you've tried to kill me today." "Oh, come on, it was just a little bomb." Mr. and Mrs. Smith, pyrokitty714

14. "You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die." "And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up." , Interview With a Vampire, pyrokitty714

15. "They said there are one of two outcomes of an invasion. One: they fight, and are defeated, and have to return again with full forces hundreds or even thousands of years later." "What's two?" "They win." Signs, carmenwoods

16. "Pathetic. All the green and the blue sky. They told me this planet was ugly, but this has got to be one of the ugliest crap holes in the entire universe." Battlefield Earth, pariahsdream

17. "You can't just walk out of a drive-in." Grease, e_heidi_liz

18. "I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job." Reservoir Dogs, pariahsdream

19. "I can only express puzzlement, that borders on alarm." Sin City, pugtor

20. "What happened to 'You are my sun, my moon, my starlit sky'?" "It went away." "'I dwell in darkness without you,' and it *went away*?" Willow, pariahsdream

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