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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:54 AM
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Poll question: Most annoying character ever
Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 03:06 AM by Dookus
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:59 AM
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1. Am I the only person who actually kind of liked Jar Jar?
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:00 AM
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Yes, and you don't know it buy you are just in denial
:evilgrin:
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:00 AM
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4. Yes, and you don't know it buy you are just in denial
:evilgrin:
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:01 AM
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6. My 12 year old niece thought he was da bomb
I reminded her that at one time she liked Barney too.
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LiberalVoice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:59 AM
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2. Vince Vaughns character in "Made"
I would have killed him if I were John Favreau.
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:22 PM
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30. but he has endearing qualities
Jar-Jar Binks has none
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:00 AM
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3. Urkel doesn't make the list?
What about that neighbor kid from Family Ties, or Nick, the "eh" boyfriend? Or one of the Friends?
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:00 AM
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5. Yeah. Urkel and "Skippy" SUCKED. n/t
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Enraged_Ape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:09 PM
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41. Urkel and Skippy are in a dead heat with Buddy Lembeck...
from "Charles in Charge".
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Kurt Remarque Donating Member (709 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:02 AM
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7. june cleaver
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:06 AM
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8. You are an evil, evil man
And you know it! ;-)
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:12 AM
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9. The Nanny.
I actually kind of like Fran Drescher. But I hate The Nanny. Too much.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:14 AM
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12. It was the form-hugging outfits, wasn't it?
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:22 AM
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16. No, I liked those. I kinda like gaudy taste.
No, it was her laugh, and the whole scenario of her being out of her element with this boring family.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:01 PM
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26. DING DING DING DING DING DING
We have a winner
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:13 AM
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10. That neighbour or relative on Too Close for Comfort
The young lady with the raspy voice. Never understood what the point of having her on was.

None of you have a clue who I'm talking about, do you? :eyes:
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webjamn Donating Member (235 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:14 AM
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11. Fran Drescher as the Nanny
I don't care what she looks like, that voice is horrible.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:14 AM
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13. Elmo
Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 03:16 AM by LeftyMom
He wasn't bad in small doses but now "Elmo's World" takes up the last fifteen minutes of Sesame Street and it is quiet possibly the most annoying thing in the world. Who would have thought Sesame Street would someday be so annoying?

Oh, Baby Bear on Sesame Street and Caillou (another PBS kids show) have got to have the whiniest voices in the universe. If my kid sounded like that I'd stab my eardrums out with an icepick.

Edited to add: I forgot Bill Walton. That man has got to be the most annoying tv personality ever.
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:24 AM
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17. I TOTALLY agree.
Elmo is too hyperactive and cutesy and desperate to please. I actually like Barney better! Now that's bad! They have racheted up the pace of Sesame Street to the point where it is awful.

Kids actually LIKE slow-paced entertainment, and they are better able to absorb it. Fast-cut stuff is not good for them.
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:08 PM
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28. Sesame Street is still a wonderful program, and
Elmo is one my two year son's favorite characters. I don't see how it is any more fast paced then when I watched the program as a child. Some of the characters are different, but the show is essentially the same. I'm not sure what everyone is bitching about. I think the shows on PBS are great. My son also likes Caillou too.
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:21 PM
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29. When I was a kid I grew up more on Mr. Rogers
Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 01:21 PM by UdoKier
And I still would prefer my kids watch him. Sesame Street is way too MTV for me. We also get the Japanese network, NHK (our kids are bilingual bicultural) and the kid's programming on NHK is so far superior it's amazing. Pacing is just right for kids, and there is a certain routine to the segments of the show that is comforting to little ones. I really wish the folks at PBS would study NHK's kids programming and lean a few things. Enough attention-span-destroying quick edits!
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:42 PM
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36. I watched Mr. Rogers too.
I believe it is still on PBS, but it is on in the afternoon when my son is taking a nap. I don't think Sesame Street destroys attention span. My son's attention span is getting better, not worse. He is two, and he loves to have books read to him. I also grew up on Sesame Street. I never had problems with ADD, and I was always a good, conscientious student in school. There's far worse things on TV that kids can watch. PBS is the best there is for folks who don't have cable. Frankly, most cable stations are worse, not better, than PBS.
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:44 PM
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38. You'll get no argument from me on that.
Still, I wish you could see the NHK shows I'm talking about. Much, much better than anything on PBS.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:08 PM
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40. Concur.
Last week there a segment with Ray Charles singing the ABC song. How can you beat that?

While I could do without Elmo's World, a lot of the new things are cool and still in keeping with the spirit of the program. e.g. the Spanish word of the day, Journey to Ernie, and the new characters like Alan at Hooper's store, Maria's daughter Gabby, and Gordon's son (that guy with the cornrows...can't remember his name.) It's pretty much the only TV my 2.5 year old daughter watches...other than when she watches part of a game with me.
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:12 PM
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43. The kid's name is Miles.
I remember when Susan and Gordon adopted him.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:31 PM
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47. Aw yeah, that's right.
Being a huge jazz fan, I'm embaressed that I'd forget the name of anybody called "Miles".
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:23 PM
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46. Go get "Blue's Big Musical Movie"
Ray Charles (well, his voice, the scene is animated) teaches a little music theory. The songs are catchy as hell.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:42 PM
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49. Steve in '08!!!
Didn't Steve from Blue's Clues do a recording with the Flaming Lips? If he's talented enough to pull that off, then he might be our man in 2008. He certainly assumes a greater intelligence in his audience than George Walker Bush does in his. We might have do something to address the perception that he's soft on defence though.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm hopping on the subway and taking the little one downtown this afternoon. We'll probably pick it up while we're there.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:16 AM
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14. I am out of the loop
who are these f***ing people?
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 05:01 AM
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18. You do not know Spicoli from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"?
or Jar-Jar from the recent Star Wars movie? Consider yourself blessed. Neither movie was worth watching.
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 08:51 AM
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22. I liked Spicoli
or maybe i just tolerated him til pheobe cates came on the screen.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 04:19 PM
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51. Spicoli was the highlight of the movie
but for me the whole movie was a downer, sorta written from a teacher/authoritarian point of view contrary to the claims of its title. Give me John Hughes anyday over that and Ferris Buehler.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:44 PM
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37. I remember Mr. Hand
:D
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LiviaOlivia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 03:21 AM
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15. Love the edit. LOL
Thank you
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 07:53 AM
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19. ALL incarnations of Bill Lumbergh
Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 07:54 AM by terrya
We get the fucking joke already.
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:01 PM
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27. What, don't you think it's funny?
Don't you have a sense of humor? He hasn't broken any rules you know! He can bore you and me to death with his pale imitation of a movie that is almost ten years old if he wants, and by god, he's going to! ;-)
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:30 PM
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34. Yeah, sweetie, that's what I'm afraid of.
Boring us to death. A slow, lingering, BORING death.

I liked "Office Spaces" myself, but come on...that kind of obsession is WEIRD. :-)

T
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 07:56 AM
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20. We have a guy at work who calls himself THE LOVE MASTER
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vinessa4freedom Donating Member (874 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 08:01 AM
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21. oompa loompas from Willie Wonka
Geez, I have nightmares to this day.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 09:14 AM
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23. Bill Lumbergh without a doubt, he is such a Republican
:puke:
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 12:58 PM
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24. Lumbergh is annoying but funny. Jar Jar just needs to die.
Lumbergh: Oh, and next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day so, you know, if you want to you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.

Jar Jar: I don't know. Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Gettin very scared and grabbin that Jedi and POW! Mesa here! Mesa gettin' very very scared!
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ThorsHammer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:01 PM
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25. Other: Cast of Friends, and the casts of reality shows
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FrankBooth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:26 PM
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31. Adam Sandler's character in "Punch Drunk Love"
or maybe Napoleon Dynamite. I don't understand the hype.
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dean_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:29 PM
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32. Meesa-Jar-Jar ruin the whoooole movie!
And I thought the Ewoks were bad. At least they weren't introduced until the last quarter of Return of the Jedi. Jar Jar came in five minutes into the damn thing.
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Ekirh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:30 PM
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33. I can't believe....
Jar Jar is not winning this by a landslide.
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FrankBooth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:31 PM
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35. the prequels were so disappointing
Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 01:32 PM by FrankBooth
that I barely remember Jar-Jar - I believe that is a good thing.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 01:47 PM
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39. Shitter's full!
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:10 PM
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42. Any role Kelsey Grammer ever took should get honorable mention
although Jar Jar gets my vote.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:15 PM
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44. How could you forget Eddie Haskel?
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:21 PM
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45. Anything Gilbert Gottfried is IN or ON.
I freaking hate the asshole. His yelling schtick is 20 something years old, it's annoying, it's boring, and it grates on every last nerve I have.

Die already!
FSC
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:40 PM
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48. Donna 90210
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 02:44 PM
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50. Any Joe Pesci character
I'd love a movie where someone shot him during his first speech.
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greyfox Donating Member (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 04:28 PM
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52. The worst was not there... so.. other...
The Shrub!
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