Fruity Oaty Obsession: Help Me! by RocketJock

Alas, I can't help. I commiserate, though - that kind of thing happens to me all the time (but it hasn't happened yet with that particular song.)

Sure hope I don't catch it - that would be pretty horrific, the Fruity Oaty jingle over and over forever.

I find what usually gets songs out of my head is to listen to them on CD. Is the soundtrack out for the BDM, and if so does it have the jingle?

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 7:30 PM

MONTANAGIRL

Quote:
Originally posted by RocketJock:
What makes it worse is, I don't know all the lyrics; just one line, which I repeat over and over.

The exact same thing is happening to me. One line, over and over. I may have to drill a hole in my head to get it out.

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"Do you accept gifts from strange men?" -Brisco
"Well, strange is no problem, but I draw the line at men I don't know." -Dixie

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 7:59 PM

Maybe this will help: remember that Fruity Oaty Bars are NOT MANDATORY.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 9:41 PM

REGINAROADIE

I know. When I saw it for the first time, I thought it was creepy as hell even without the subliminal message attached to it. The design of the octopus was meancing even though it was done pretty basically. And it was only the fifth time around that I realized they were singin in English and not Chinese.

I thought that commercial was scarier than the Reaver's actually.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
XANDER: (baby-talk) Who's a little fear demon?
C'mon, who's a lit-tle fear demon?
GILES: Don't taunt the fear demon.
XANDER: Why? Can he hurt me?
GILES: No, it's just… tacky.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 3:13 AM

ROCKETJOCK

Oh god, I hope I don't have to wait until the DVD comes out so I can read the subtitles...

"I'll kill a man in a fair fight. Or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight..." -- Jayne Cobb

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Friday, October 7, 2005 9:56 AM

ODDNESS2HER

Have someone give you the safeword. Then you'll fall asleep and won't hear it anymore.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 10:17 AM

PHOEBE

Quote:
Originally posted by RocketJock:
It's in my head.

I can't get rid of it.

It's driving me crazy.

I saw the BDM three times and now I've got the Fruity Oaty Bar jingle stuck in my head, and I can't shut it off!

What makes it worse is, I don't know all the lyrics; just one line, which I repeat over and over.

If I knew the whole thing, maybe I could get it out of my skull! Fellow Browncoats, please help me before my wife has to kill me!

"Hermanos! The Devil is building a Robot! Andale!" -- Numero Cinco

*dies laughing* I've been wandering around for the last two days with "fruuuity oaty bars" going around in my head too... driving ME mad

It's almost as bad as what happens when someone says "Canton"... oh SHIT. *bangs head* Get OUT! Get OUT! DAMN YOU JAYNE!

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Friday, October 7, 2005 10:31 AM

DARKJESTER

Hey all, try looking in the Serenity Visual Companion book. The words are reported to be...

"Fruity Oaty Bars, Pow! Hey!
Fruity Oaty Bars,
Make a man out of a mouse,
Make you bust out your blouse,
Eat them now, Bang! Ping! Zow!
- Try Fruity, Oaty Bars."

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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Friday, October 7, 2005 11:40 AM

PERIDIDDLE

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Originally posted by Phoebe:
*dies laughing* I've been wandering around for the last two days with "fruuuity oaty bars" going around in my head too... driving ME mad

Gaaah, I FEEL YOUR PAIN. I've been singing it all week. And it's horrible...I burst out into it mid-class. My poor Social Studies class knows that one line backwards and forwards...

"Bwaa...it's kind of a warrior...strikes fear into the hearts of..."

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Friday, October 7, 2005 8:00 PM

ROCKETJOCK

Quote:
Originally posted by DarkJester:
Hey all, try looking in the Serenity Visual Companion book. The words are reported to be...

"Fruity Oaty Bars, Pow! Hey!
Fruity Oaty Bars,
Make a man out of a mouse,
Make you bust out your blouse,
Eat them now, Bang! Ping! Zow!
- Try Fruity, Oaty Bars."

I think it mutated a little by the time it reached the screen, but who cares? I was not alone in my suffering -- and now there is hope of a treatment! Bless you all!

"May the luck of the Seven Pillars of Gulu be with you at all times." -- Centauri

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Saturday, October 8, 2005 12:56 PM

ROCKETJOCK

One last report: Saw the BDM for the fourth time today, and managed to make out the lyrics as presented on screen:

Fruity Oaty Bars/make a man out of a mouse/
Fruity Oaty Bars/make you bust out of your blouse/
Eat them all the time/they will blow your mind/
Blow your little mind--

At this point the jingle dies out as River enters her fugue state.

Thanks to everyone who tried to help me. I've managed to bring the echo in my head down to managable levels.

Now if I could only drive The Ballad of Jayne out of my consciousness...

"Hermanos! The Devil is building a Robot! Andale!" -- Numero Cinco

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Sunday, October 9, 2005 5:22 AM

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Originally posted by RocketJock:
Thanks to everyone who tried to help me. I've managed to bring the echo in my head down to managable levels.

Glad to hear it - after my 3rd BDM viewing last night, it's going to take a crowbar to get that jingle out of my head. But at least having it in there isn't as unpleasant as I'd thought it would be.

...Fruuuuiiity Oaty Bars...la la la...maybe there's something about that third viewing that does it...

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Sunday, October 9, 2005 7:04 AM

HELL'S KITTEN

Mmmmm... fruity oaty bars...

无党派人士

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Sunday, October 9, 2005 7:42 AM

Hey! where'd you get that screen grab? And are there some bigger ones?

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Monday, October 10, 2005 7:01 AM

HELL'S KITTEN

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Originally posted by SamWibatt:
Hey! where'd you get that screen grab? And are there some bigger ones?

I scanned this from the sticker....

And thanks to this thread, I went to sleep last night with the Fruity Oaty Bars song in my head.

无党派人士

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Monday, October 10, 2005 7:39 AM

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Originally posted by SamWibatt:
Quote:
Originally posted by RocketJock:
Thanks to everyone who tried to help me. I've managed to bring the echo in my head down to managable levels.

Glad to hear it - after my 3rd BDM viewing last night, it's going to take a crowbar to get that jingle out of my head. But at least having it in there isn't as unpleasant as I'd thought it would be.

...Fruuuuiiity Oaty Bars...la la la...maybe there's something about that third viewing that does it...

Yes, yes, with the third viewing comes evangelical mode (and apparently, a Fruity Oaty Bar Jingle fugue state). Go bring the good news of Serenity to a waiting world.
Bwaa haa ha, just kidding. There was a post on the OB about what scary proselytizing zombies we all are. Now here's evidence of the brainwashing as well. We'll all probably see it enough times to quote the differences between the script and screen versions of any line.

"Sorry, dad. The independents attacked us with dinosaurs." -Simon

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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:48 AM

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
I scanned this from the sticker....

I feel kind of dumb about this - but I've been out of touch and need to be walked through this -

Where did you get the sticker?

liminalosity - re: proselytizing, I have actually done a fair amount. I'm very sensitive to the advocate/zealot line, though, and have worked hard to avoid becoming the latter.

Brainwashing I'll admit to. :)

...fruuuiiity oaty bars...la la la...

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Thursday, October 13, 2005 5:12 AM

FIRELILY

Quote:
Originally posted by reginaroadie:
And it was only the fifth time around that I realized they were singin in English and not Chinese.

Ha! I didn't know it was English either! (I figured out the "fruity oaty bar" part only after reading on one of the boards (and then, it fit nicely into my memory of the song, but the rest was still a mystery)
I will listen intently next time I hear the song though

btw, to the person who asked about the soundtrack, the jingle is not on there.

and on the OB, someone posted a pic of the fruity oaty bar t-shirt, maybe if you find one, you will lift the burden of the [*tune being stuck in your head* (there's a word for that, not "earbug" but something similar I think)] from your brain.

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Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:48 PM

Hey, I see over here in the "Serenity DVD Details..." thread:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=13655

The DVD is supposed to include this:
"We'll Have a Fruity Oaty Good Time" - 1 minute 35sec (Rated PG)

I'm hoping this is the ad. That'd be handy for scrubbing the tune out of your head, maybe?

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Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:00 PM

JCPRICE

Am I the only one thinking this would make a fun ring tone ... ?

...

:)

jason

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Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:09 PM

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Originally posted by jcprice:
Am I the only one thinking this would make a fun ring tone ... ?

If you were, you're not anymore. I'd love it.

Heh, just what I need - having my phone play "Fruity Oaty Bars" at me.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 11:15 AM

DIETCOKE

I know I had it in my head for weeks. Finally go rid of it, and now this post has me singing it all over again!

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

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Friday, October 14, 2005 2:23 PM

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

The only part of the song I remember is the line "meddle with your mind" while Rivers face is on screen. I remember the animation of the ad, just not the song.

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The real-life box droppin', man-ape gone wrong thing, now without the pesky falling boxes

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Friday, October 14, 2005 2:50 PM

PHOEBE

DAMN YOU! What did you go and put it on the main page for?! *wails*

Now I'm going to go to bed with it going round... and round... and round... and round...

*rocks back and forward*

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:56 AM

I think it would make a fine ring tone, and then it would go viral and affect the entire population, who would all run to the movie! Tippee! How do we get it to morph into a ring-tone [inow?/i]

Has anyone else noticed the brief appearance of the Operative in the flash of images when River is triggered by "the [Oaty Bar/i]"?

Should I quote a really bad song and try to get that stuck in your head instead of Fruity/Oaty? Gilligan's Island? The Night Chicago Died? Bad,Bad, Leroy Brown? A little Abba maybe? Mandy? What's your pleasure in pixelated karaoke?

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 12:17 PM

BROWNCOATFAN1

i myself was also hipnotized by the furry fuity oat bar character

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 2:35 PM

DONCOAT

For some reason, the Fruity Oaty Bar jingle reminds me of one that was on TV when I was a kid:

Bum, Bum, Bumble Bee,
Bumble Bee tuna,
Yum yum Bumble Bee,
Bumble Bee tuna...

Cadence isn't quite the same, but it's just as viral.

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 2:45 PM

DONCOAT

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Originally posted by ReaverInA1985Riviera:
The only part of the song I remember is the line "meddle with your mind" while Rivers face is on screen. I remember the animation of the ad, just not the song.

I tried very hard to catch the words on my last couple viewings. Here's my best take:

Fruity Oaty Bars,
Make a man out of a mouse.
Fruity Oaty Bars,
Make you bust out of your blouse.
Eat them all the time,
They will blow your mind...

Same idea, of course, and the sound is going sort of funny and distorted at that point. I think it's a little clearer when Mr. Universe replays it.

Now, can anybody explain why the words NOT MANDATORY appear on the screen behind the animated characters? Bad translation from Chinese, maybe? Sort of an "all your base" thing?

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 2:50 PM

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Originally posted by DonCoat:
Now, can anybody explain why the words NOT MANDATORY appear on the screen behind the animated characters? Bad translation from Chinese, maybe? Sort of an "all your base" thing?

I figured it was some sort of hint that Alliance TV is very overtly authoritarian and they'd tell you at every step whether what they were talking about was required of all citizens or not. NOT MANDATORY suggested to me that citizens are not required by law to buy Fruity Oaty Bars, so the company that makes them clearly isn't bribing the right people.

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:03 PM

JUSTSERENITY

I've seen the movie 4 times and its not in my head. It was a funny song!

Skye

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:10 PM

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Originally posted by SamWibatt:
Quote:
Originally posted by DonCoat:
Now, can anybody explain why the words NOT MANDATORY appear on the screen behind the animated characters? Bad translation from Chinese, maybe? Sort of an "all your base" thing?

NOT MANDATORY suggested to me that citizens are not required by law to buy Fruity Oaty Bars, so the company that makes them clearly isn't bribing the right people.

See, and I was thinking that it was a product disclaimer -not mandatory- that you eat enough of them to induce the psychosis suggested above. I like your take. They are not a Blue Sun item. Not available at WallMart, either I hope.

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 4:21 PM

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Originally posted by liminalosity:
See, and I was thinking that it was a product disclaimer -not mandatory- that you eat enough of them to induce the psychosis suggested above. I like your take. They are not a Blue Sun item. Not available at WallMart, either I hope.

hee hee

I did have one other interpretation - the words NOT MANDATORY appear, IIRC, for the "bust out of your blouse" bit where the woman eats a FOB and has an octopus hop out of her rapidly-expanding cleavage. Maybe the words mean something like the "Results Not Typical" micro-disclaimer you get with the ads for diet pills here in real life.

(on edit: I don't know if disclaimers like that exist in all countries here on earth-that-was. I live in the USA, which I hear is very similar to Real Life.)

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 4:30 PM

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Originally posted by SamWibatt:

I did have one other interpretation - the words NOT MANDATORY appear, IIRC, for the "bust out of your blouse" bit where the woman eats a FOB and has an octopus hop out of her rapidly-expanding cleavage. Maybe the words mean something like the "Results Not Typical" micro-disclaimer you get with the ads for diet pills here in real life.

(on edit: I don't know if disclaimers like that exist in all countries here on earth-that-was. I live in the USA, which I hear is very similar to Real Life.)

Ouch, ow! Ooh! dang, gaak, snort, kha, kha, you hurt me with this laughter!

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Friday, October 28, 2005 7:53 PM

GORBASH

Gorramit. I've tried getting the image to show up four dozen times and the thing won't go. So just click the link if you see fit. FOund it from a Google Image search.

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Friday, October 28, 2005 8:03 PM

"I may have to drill a hole in my head to get it out."

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Sorry to butt into the middle of this aging thread but... what you are "suggesting" is called "trephining," and I guarantee you it has been practiced by our cavedwelling troglodytish forebears for some... 10,000 years...

As soon as I heard the jingle for "Fruity Oaty Bars"... I knew why trephining was invented... I DEFinitely can't get it out of MY (untrephined) head

HOHOHO

I don't wanna tattoo but, maybe, I could get trephined so that "my friends won't think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat"

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Friday, October 28, 2005 8:18 PM

"and on the OB, someone posted a pic of the fruity oaty bar t-shirt, maybe if you find one, you will lift the burden of the [*tune being stuck in your head* (there's a word for that, not "earbug" but something similar I think)] from your brain."

It's a German word, namely "Ohrwurm," meaning "Ear Worm," which is a word/phrase I've done Everything in My Power to insinuate into the English Language... I mean, as there's no freakkin' word in That English Language that quite manages to convey what ..."ohrwurm" manages to do...

So, if someone says, "Ohrwurm" to you, or near you, or in earshot of you... then... well... 'My work here is done" :-):-):-)

HAHAHA,

HOHOHO

Eat Fruity Oaty Bars® "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred piece of meat"

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Friday, October 28, 2005 8:37 PM

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Originally posted by Unsardonic:
"Ohrwurm," meaning "Ear Worm,"

Oh yes, please keep bringing back the ancient and insidious thread!
I have a special fondness for this thread, and am working on designs of a Fruity Oaty nature that will soon become reality, if I can only execute my evil plan to enliven them.

Was that Frankenstienish enough? Bwah ha haaaaaaa.

Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!

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Friday, October 28, 2005 8:45 PM

BWAH HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

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Friday, October 28, 2005 8:48 PM

ya know...

until your note mentioned it, I had No Idea that this thread is damn near a month old... I just wasn't paying attention to the original date... damn FOB's... we... must... buy... FOB... buy...buybuy... buybye... um, bye, um, byebye

HAHHAHHAH

HOHOHO ("y'all")

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Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:44 AM

FIRELILY

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Originally posted by Unsardonic:
damn FOB's...

hehehehe

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Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:28 PM

Okay I've got a general question to anyone who's been as subliminally possessed by the F.O.B. jingle as I, umm... seem to have become... (I have succumbed, I'm sorry, "Violence will ensue")...

To Wit:

Has anybody seen anywhere that the jingle can be downloaded (legally - as I always wanna make sure Joss gets his fair cut for bein' a Frikkin' GEEENius)? It must be plugged into various nefariously subversive locations in my iTunes library to sneak up on unsuspecting listeners... kinda like the Spanish Inquisition, "BWAH-HAH-HAH!!!"

HOHOHO

Ladies, don't raise your babies to become "stupid, inbred stacks of meat"

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:16 PM

LSUTIGER83

Fruity Oaty Bars, make a man out of a mouse...
Fruity Oaty Bars, make you bust out of your blouse...
Eat `em all the time, let `em blow your mind...
Fruity Oaty bars,
Fruity Oaty bars.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:42 PM

oh MA-AAA-ANN-NNN-NNNNnnnn...

You DID it!!

You resurrected the... umm...
Fruity...

Oaty...

ummmmmm...... (whazzisting(?)).....

- oh yeAH!! -

TREAD!!! (...kinda like dat ...t'ing onna automobile tire...)

(Thorry, I'm listening to Femi Kuti music... an' he can't pronounce "th"'s very much either)

AND... while I'm at it... the "Serenity" DVD trailer just came out tonight on Comedy Central and... CRAP!!! - I just realized that 8 (eight) theatrical viewings were Not Enuff!!! If somebody doesn't give me this DVD for XXXmas... I'm gonna give myself about 23 copies "Just ta Prove a Point"...

So... I'm wondering, Femi (or anyone over there in Mother Africa)... did "Serenity" get any traction with the people of ...any nation... of Africa??

Gawd... can you imagine someone in ...Somalia, for instance... responding to this? I've had happy exchanges with the Estonian browncoat contingent so... why couldn't this happen? I've made friends with people from Senegal & Mali - hey wait!... did you not know I'm a 54-year-old white ...dood... ...and I bet they would LOVE "Serenity"... should they get a chance to see it, 'course...

HOHOHO,

If you're not a total Firefly-luvin', Serenity-butt-kissin' brownCOAT... "your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat"...

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:53 PM

RIVERGODDESS

Haha, my dad and I have been singing the FOB song all day today and yesterday. I'm going crazy. That octopus is going to give me nightmares I swear.

fruity oaty bars....[/]
SUBLIMINALMESSAGEOCTOPUSSUBLIMNALMESSAGE
make a man out of a mouse...[/]

Oh, GOD!

And for ressurrecting this thread, and this gorram song, thanks. Thanks a lot.

*~*~
Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:09 PM