As some have noted in the comments to this post, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the obvious answer. And it's the most correct one! Not only did it end the hair metal era and usher in grunge, it's a song that simply could not have been a chart-topping hit any earlier in music history.
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I don’t know who came up with that line, but it was certainly an acceptable alteration of the original for the purposes of shirt immortalization
Thar she blows! Thanks for the piece of lore from the days of yore
I would never discourage someone from boosting Bluesky’s engagement numbers, so by all means let’s see it
That’s wild, mine is long gone after presumably disintegrating from repeated use. I don’t think I have many shirts anymore that could be described as possessing sentimental value, which is the kind of thing that tends to happen when you start getting most of your clothes from Costco
Exquisitely timed ping, given that I just recently was forced into hoping that someone out there might appreciate something I once wrote. Ideally, it would have been a person in position to make my experience of unemployment mercifully brief, but hey, I’ll take it. Hope you all are in fine fettle.
We could sorely use some adherence, or at least widespread expectations thereof, to all sorts of codes of ethics these days.
The fifth paragraph reads: “The newspaper’s duty is to its readers and to the public at large, and not to the private interests of its owners.”
Was going through some materials accumulated over my many years at The Washington Post, and I was struck by these words of wisdom from the legendary Eugene Meyer, particularly (in light of recent events) the fifth graf.
There REALLY should be a rule against showing ads for scary movies during a program and time that would likely have a lot of kids watching
Looking to get back into the top 10, and presumably all the way back to No. 1, after so much early-career success, Naomi Osaka is off to a splashy start Down Under (although she could help herself by keeping her early-round matches under 3 sets)
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Sports quiz time! (Unless you've taken it already today, in which case, thanks very much.) We have looks at the recently concluded CFP final and upcoming NFL conference title games, as well as questions related to baseball, basketball, boxing and more!
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2/2 ... "So inside of those kids, they’re now looking forward to it. You put that together with a string of wins, and all of a sudden your whole community is talking about what’s going on and thinking, ‘We can beat anybody.’”
Great quote on Curt Cignetti, via an excellent column by @barrysvrlugawp.bsky.social:
“He flipped the culture for us,” said [Elon's AD]. “When I talk about that, it turned from ‘Who do we play this week?’ to ‘Who do we get to play this week?’ 1/2
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also, LOL to that throw going down in the play-by-play as a mere 14-yard TD pass. He chucked from the 40, off his back foot while under intense pressure
Thanks to NBC for finally showing the coverage on Kmet after like 5 replays of the pass (which definitely deserved some replays, to be clear), b/c it sure looked like he MUST have pushed off. But actually, not really! Just some fairly standard hand-fighting, w/Kmet the stronger dude
OMG, that was a crazy TD pass. Sometimes, the regular view you get on TV (i.e., not seeing the whole field) adds to the excitement, b/c there was no way to know who or what Caleb was throwing to there
I think that if the ball had popped out there when Cooks went to the ground with it, it would have been considered an incompletion. So he could be considered to have not completed the process of the catch when McMillian grabbed it, making for an interception. Just going by the NFL's rules, folks.
Has a hook and ladder (or lateral, if u prefer) play ever NOT worked? Can understand why teams only go to it in desperate situations, but also have to think versions of it could be used much more frequently.
Sports quiz time! Sure, you know which golf tour has until very recently been home to Brooks Koepka (you do, right?), but can you identify the two folks further down whose heads have been cropped out?
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Here’s my terrific colleague @candacedbuckner.bsky.social on why it was so problematic for a reporter to use her time at a Jaguars postgame news conference to give their coach a pep talk.
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Halfway though the 4th quarter of Chargers-Pats, it'll be a total shock if we see another lead change. I know the Bolts' o-line is banged up, but man, their offense has looked putrid tonight.
Update: 12, with nearly a baker's dozen but for the Eagles coming up short in the final minute.
Now up to 10 4th quarter lead changes, and again, plenty of time left in this one for more
And there's 4th quarter lead change #9. Still some time for the Jags to answer!
Jags' TD with just over 4 minutes to go is the eighth 4th quarter lead change in three playoff games thus far (and this one ain't over, as I'm sure Jax fans fully realize)
Have you taken our sports quiz today? If not yet, then no better time than now (unless sometime a little bit later would work much better). This one touches on an NFL coach firing, the CFP semifinals, a red-hot college basketball team and more!
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and yes, I know "auld lang syne" means something different in scottish
The ball doesn't drop for another seven hours, so in the meantime, why not take this quiz? Eight questions related to the place of New Year's Day in sports history.
If you score well, it could be an auld lang syne of good things to come in 2026!
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