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I had a coworker go on an insane rant about his hatred of EVs after somebody mentioned Teslas. I wound him up even more by saying I'm fine with EVs just not ones built by Nazis.

No, it wasn't WMMS (unless my memory is even worse than I thought). It was a different station although I don't remember which one. They called themselves "the End" (hence the song), maybe WEND? I dunno. They had that one DJ who had relocated from LA for the gig.

I stopped listening after that one Barenaked Ladies song started getting played once an hour. "It's been" had me changing the channel so fucking fast it even happened when it was used in their promos. Good god do I hate that fucking song.

According to this it was 107.9 WENZ. A comment says they kicked things off in May 1992 which I guess is about right.

obviously the product of too much booze, coke, and resultant self-confidence

And that's exactly how Toto got the gig doing the soundtrack for the 1984 version of Dune.

sare-en-get-EEEEEEEE

A radio station where I grew up (Cleveland) switched formats to alternative/grunge/whatever in 1990 or 1991 and they kicked this off by playing that song over and over for three straight days. It was a surreal experience to hear it on the radio every time I went to drive anywhere. For me, this was the real moment the '90s began (the other contenders being the premiers on MTV of "Groove is in the Heart" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit").

Apparently many stations all over the country switched formats the same way, by playing "End of the World as We Know It" over and over again.

My town had a bowling ball factory and on winter nights when the river was frozen we would steal reject balls and throw them off the bridge downtown. They made a truly incredible noise when they hit the ice.

Fuck, I don't even like changing tires on my bicycles.

Yeah, I really want to buy one of these things, but there's no place around that could do any kind of work on them. I also wouldn't mind a gas-powered scooter, but the nearest shops that sell them are over 25 miles away and they don't work on any scooters that they didn't sell you -- and their cheapest scooters cost even more than the Aventura-X.

I had a friend whose mom was a severe gambling addict. We visited them in Lake Charles and we got to stay in a free suite and ate for free at the buffet every night, thanks to the mom's status at the casinos. My friend told me that her mom had lost approximately $500,000 in total, and this was a woman that made $25 an hour as a nurse. That's about 10 years of career earnings totally pissed away.

Could have been, I don't remember. I tried to find a news article about it but this was from too long ago - mid 1980s.

We wouldn't have the phrase "cunt punt" without the greek system.