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EgaoNoGenki
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18 Mar 2009, 10:30 am

...WHY DO I THINK OF THE SONG "IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE" WHEN I THINK OF 2009?????

Listen: http://local.aaca.org/junior/cartunes/m ... mobile.mp3

See, the beginning of the MP3's file name even starts with an "09!" Do you think that's a coincidence???


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18 Mar 2009, 12:05 pm

EgaoNoGenki wrote:
...WHY DO I THINK OF THE SONG "IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE" WHEN I THINK OF 2009?????

Listen: http://local.aaca.org/junior/cartunes/m ... mobile.mp3

See, the beginning of the MP3's file name even starts with an "09!" Do you think that's a coincidence???


Perhaps because it's a depression-era song, like "Happy Days Are Here Again", (ironic because of course, they weren't - since The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down).



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18 Mar 2009, 2:01 pm

Willard wrote:
EgaoNoGenki wrote:
...WHY DO I THINK OF THE SONG "IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE" WHEN I THINK OF 2009?????

Listen: http://local.aaca.org/junior/cartunes/m ... mobile.mp3

See, the beginning of the MP3's file name even starts with an "09!" Do you think that's a coincidence???


Perhaps because it's a depression-era song, like "Happy Days Are Here Again", (ironic because of course, they weren't - since The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down).


Depression? You're 20 years off... What do you think the "09" in that song's file stands for?


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18 Mar 2009, 3:59 pm

EgaoNoGenki wrote:
Willard wrote:
EgaoNoGenki wrote:
...WHY DO I THINK OF THE SONG "IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE" WHEN I THINK OF 2009?????

Listen: http://local.aaca.org/junior/cartunes/m ... mobile.mp3

See, the beginning of the MP3's file name even starts with an "09!" Do you think that's a coincidence???


Perhaps because it's a depression-era song, like "Happy Days Are Here Again", (ironic because of course, they weren't - since The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down).


Depression? You're 20 years off... What do you think the "09" in that song's file stands for?


It may have been written in 1905, but Billy Murray did the song for a "follow the bouncing ball" cartoon in 1932...