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Life is a very fast-paced thing. 

One day you’re writing on stones and hunting mammoths, and the next, you’re decompressing from your 9 to 5 by lounging on the couch and watching viral cat videos. The point is – everything changes in a blink of an eye, and sometimes, keeping up with the world simply becomes an impossible task. 

What quietly went away without anyone noticing?” – this web user turned to one of Reddit’s most thought-provoking communities, encouraging its members to share examples of things that were once popular but have since disappeared. The thread garnered nearly 45K likes as well as 44K comments containing some pretty intriguing responses.

Before we continue with the article, let’s hear from the author himself! “I asked that question because I’m always fascinated by that moment when something pops into your head that you haven’t thought about in ages, and it sorta takes you back in time for a second and makes you wonder where it went,” u/lukiiiiii said when Bored Panda pondered about the inspiration behind the post. We then invited the netizen to answer his own question, and he responded with: “My answer would have been maybe something like Kanye West or other ‘controversial figures’ that make headlines for a while and then disappear from the news cycle.”

Now, without further ado, pull your chair closer, and let’s begin!

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#1

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Acid Rain.

It was a huge environmental issue in the late 70s thru the early 90s. Rain was acidic and damaged fertile areas among other things.

In the US there was much research done and eventually industrial regulations were put into place. Companies were allowed to decide what approach they chose to take as long as the results showed the appropriate amount of reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions.

Unfortunately, positive news doesn't sell, so news outlets did not do justice to reporting this success. As we went into the 2000s hardly anyone remembered what was done.

GurglingWaffle , Pratik Gupta Report

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MellonCollie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, I was recently wondering why we never hear about acid rain anymore. But it was a fleeting thought in a moment where I did not have time to search the internet. However, it is an interesting thought. I remember seeing forests destroyed by acid rain as a kid, it certainly made a lasting impression!

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#2

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Actual toys in cereal boxes and cracker jack boxes.

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#3

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group politicians feeling ashamed when theyre caught lying

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Frando Bone
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please...average citizens on social media don't even care when they're called out on blatant lies/hypocrisy. What makes you think politicians would do any better? LOL

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#4

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Ownership. We used to pay money and then the thing actually belonged to us. Now everything is rented or leased. Everything is sold "as a service". Music as a service. Movies as a service. Software as a service. Even printer ink as a service.

We spend and spend and in the end we hold nothing in our hands.

edit: You can also subscribe to clothes. Wear new clothes every month but never own them. You can also subscribe to cars. Clothes as a service, cars as a service.

jaxiti1264 , Pew Nguyen Report

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sofacushionfort
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Part of the trend where capital is held in fewer and fewer hands while debt is carried on more and more backs

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#5

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Water beds.

another user added:

Used to have one. Nothing like forgetting to turn on the heater an hour before bed in the middle of winter.

valthonis_surion , Hans Peters / Anefo Report

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Mad Dragon
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't turn the heater on and off; you leave it on all the time like a hot tub or heated pool. When I got a waterbed I had to sleep in the living room the first night because it took a day for the bed to heat the water enough for me to not be freezing.

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#6

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group When you turn off the TV, how the image would shrink to a dot before slowly fading away.

ConcreteCubeFarm , Nothing Ahead Report

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zak
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was only present on CRT (cathode ray rube) TVs, and nobody makes CRT TVs anymore since L.E.D. and Plasma are vastly superior. It was pretty cool though 😎

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#7

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Movie trailers with that deep voice guy doing the voice overs.

jonathonkarate , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

#8

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The Sears Wishbook

UneditedReddited , eBay/foundonpei Report

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Shelby Moonheart
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When my mom was young, she was born in 1930, when the Sears & Robuck catalog came my grandmother would ask her and her sisters which dress they would like and then sew it for them.

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#9

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Taco Bell used to have a chihuahua as their mascot. Little dude just disappeared one day and anyone born after 2000 probably doesn't even know what I am talking about.

To_Fight_The_Night , The Hall of Advertising Report

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M O'Connell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yet to this very day I still see people with the nodding-head chihuahua on the dashboard of their car (myself included)

ElDiablo_562x666x3
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gidget (February 7, 1994 – July 21, 2009) and was voiced by Carlos Alazraqui who you may know from Rocko's Modern Life or Reno 911.

Lord Rimuru
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They stopped using it because pet stores were swamped with people asking for the Taco Bell dog

DrBronxx
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People from countries that don't have Taco Bell also have no idea what you're talking about.

Drinking my Covfefe
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have my stuffed taco bell dogs. They still talk when I squeeze them. They say all the quotes. I do miss him.

Christopher Bowers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Here lizard, lizard, lizard". The Godzilla movie commercials about him trying to catch her...yes...the Godzilla movie where Godzilla was a she and Matthew Broderick had a name that people kept getting wrong in the movie and he would correct them over and over and over again.

Tavi “Raptor” Parks
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandma's chihuahua looks identical to him! He's the sweetest chihuahua I've ever met! He just wants you to pet him and never stop-

cb !!!
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to have a talking stuffed animal of this that said the "yo quiero Taco Bell" line in this stupid annoying voice. It was creepy as all hell, too. The reason I say "used to" is because one day my uncle and I put it outside and spent turns trying to put it out of it's battery-deficient, rotting fabric misery with a BB gun. It took 11 tries. We buried it in my grandma's plants. Rest well, Taco Tony.

Brien Bodenham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I listened to a pod cast recently and Taco Bell got some guys who invented Psycho Chihuahua to do a whole add campaign for them and just before launch ghosted them and ripped off their work to launch the Taco Bell Chihuahua, 5 years later Taco Bell the Scum Bags they are finished up settling with them for 30 million

Sunshine Sunshine
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A coworker and I were just sharing this wisdom with the younger generations! Never forget!!!!

Abbigail
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol correct I was born in 2001 and I have no idea about most of the things on here 😂

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#10

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group I think people have noticed now but at the time, nobody noticed it was happening: 24 hour stores. I live in a major city and we don’t have a single 24 hour grocery store ever since the pandemic.

anxiousfamily , Henri Bergius Report

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Frando Bone
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah I live in a 24 hour city and NOTHING is 24hr anymore. I feel terrible for those who work overnight and can't do things like grocery shop during their normal hours.

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#11

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Panama papers

another user added:

They actually still have impact to this very day, and lots of people noticed!

But as a summary, here are some things that happened:

After mass protests, the Prime Minister of Iceland was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

After mass protests, the President of Pakistan was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

Worldwide, hundreds of people – many rich and powerful – were arrested. Billions in stolen assets were returned to the people.

82 countries changed their laws to crack down on the wealth hoarding the papers revealed.

AnkurTri27 , Pixabay Report

#12

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Service clubs. e.g. the Rotary, the Lions, the Shriners.

Oh, they're still around. But a common complaint among them is they've got no members under 70 and no new members are lining up to get in.

EDIT: The #1 question seems to be, "What the hell are these, anyways?"

They're social clubs with the primary objective to be doing projects to better the community. They might raise money to build a new playground, a new hospital, for scholarships, stuff like that.

They raise money for stuff.

originalchaosinabox , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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Kookamunga
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shriners are still out there helping kids. Bonus, they wear fantastic fez hats and ride those tiny cars in parades! shriners-6...2c8bde.jpg shriners-63c82362c8bde.jpg

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#13

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Telephone books

Flat_Satisfaction428 , cottonbro studio Report

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Linn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bonus points for the picture not actually showing any phone books

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#14

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Landlines in residences. The jacks are still in almost any house but I rarely see anything plugged in anymore. The only people I can think of with them are all over 60.

lajec21095 , Ron Lach Report

#15

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group
That class for keyboard typing n stuff.

nevorar960 , Karol D Report

#16

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group
Buying a new game and having a thick chunky manual filled with game lore which you would read before playing and so heighten the anticipation of the game itself.

nevorar960 , yoppy Report

#17

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Facebook poke wars

Hot_buttered_toast , Rodolpho Zanardo Report

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Carole G.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"MAAA-OM"...he's touching me...oh wait, that was in the car...

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#18

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Ronald McDonald.

Too many people are petrified of clowns.

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#21

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Blackberry phones!

Sufficient_Rub2165 , Aaron.huo Report

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Kookamunga
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have one in my Lost Technology Museum. AKA that drawer in the living room.

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#22

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Free samples. I used to see free sample standes every time I went to a store, now they are gone.

I now realize ( from all the comments ) that Costco apparently still has them.

Ducklord1928 , Myrtle Beach TheDigitel Report

#23

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The net neutrality thingy

Pufferfishgrimm , Mark Turnauckas Report

#24

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Picture in Picture TVs

another user added:

I miss this. Playing Crash Bandicoot in the tiny corner of the screen while my mom watched General Hospital on the rest of the screen.

WhoDoesntLikeADonut , Lisa Stevens Report

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sawadee krab
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or playing videogames with friends in one and watching the match in the other

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#25

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The American Chestnut Tree.

We sing “chestnuts roasting over an open fire” every year and yet never question why we have no chestnuts.

All the chestnut trees are dead is why, you see.

Verybaddentist , BobMacInnes Report

#26

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Stumbleupon... I remember all my classmates and my Mom used to use it years ago

loarium , Aaron Parecki Report

#28

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 3D TVs

SuvenPan , ETC@USC Report

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zak
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Years ago I had a TV with 3D capability, and it came with a couple pairs of the premium 3D eyeglasses, but I didn't watch a single thing in 3D the entire time I had it lol

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#30

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The word "Cyberspace"

horschdhorschd , Cyber-Andi Report

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Christopher Barnhouse
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tesla has a "cyber truck", no idea what makes it "cyber" though, sounds like Elon was trying to hard to sound futuristic.

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#31

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Anyone remember Spinning Rims on cars?

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Robert T
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have spinners on my car, but not the spinning rim things. Spinners are the name given to the large single wheel nut that holds wire wheels onto vintage cars. You hit them with a hammer to tighten/undo them. :D

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#32

Rofl dropped off of the face of the planet and now we just go straight from lol to lmao

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Thegoodboi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was so energy consuming to roll on the floor laughing, then have to get up. Easier just to lose your a*s

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#33

Ring tones. Jay Z said no more and they were done.

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#34

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group McDonald's all day breakfast menu

another user added:

Most providers decided to adhere to net neutrality, understanding that new administrations can change the makeup of the FCC.

EmeraldAlicorn , Mike Mozart Report

#35

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group SoBe

another user added:

...what the hell!? This is the answer, I haven't seen SoBe in years now that I think about it!

_Dwarf_Mafia , Rob Carlson Report

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#36

I want to know WTF happened to my Salsa Verde Doritos.

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D3v1lD0ll
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so freaking mad about this one! Back in the early-to-mid 90s, you could only find SV Doritos in select regions (I was lucky in Massachusetts), then, to my great joy, they were everywhere for over a decade, only to break my heart and disappear. The Corporate Overlords expect me to be happy with the Sweet Chili flavor... *Cries while trying to find joy in the purple bag* ...IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!!!!

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#38

30 Things That Unnoticeably Got Deleted From Our Reality, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group HQ Trivia

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Beautys solace
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While HQ has not officially announced a shutdown, it has not had a game since November 17, 2022, Additionally, the servers used by the app are not online, rendering all app features non-functional and the domains non-responsive.But on January 15, 2023, the HQ app was displaying the following message: "Dear HQ Community:

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#39

Taylor Lautner

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Elita One
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's still around, he just married his girlfriend also named Taylor, so now Taylor Lautner is married to Taylor Lautner. And yes she did change her last name to his purely for shits and giggles 😄

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#40

Jack Nicholson

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Slim 864 GVG
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor guy is getting too old now. He has to be close to 90. He has become the elder statesman of Hollywood. He is still the man though!

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