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@the-gravedigger said
Actually half of the vinyl records sold in the U.S. do not end up scuffed and scratched to any degree.
Half of the vinyl records sold in the U.S. are literally unlistenable.

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@fmf said
Half of the vinyl records sold in the U.S. are literally unlistenable.
But they can be listened to metaphorically.
And so can the other half that are literally listenable.

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@the-gravedigger said
But they can be listened to metaphorically.
And so can the other half that are literally listenable.
I am listening to music metaphorically at the moment because the paper I am working on needs my full concentration, so I cannot be literally listening to music.

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And, anyway, I don't have a record deck.

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@fmf said
And, anyway, I don't have a record deck.
I thought Frank Zappa had given you one.

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@the-gravedigger said
I thought Frank Zappa had given you one.
Well I suppose FMF does look a little like a hairy Jewish princess.

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There are 24,000 corporate jets in the world. Four hundred of them are in the U.K.

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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.😲

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There are 23,600 corporate jets in the world excluding the UK.

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@the-gravedigger said
There are 23,600 corporate jets in the world excluding the UK.
Excluding the U.K. leaves you with an incomplete statistic.

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@fmf said
Excluding the U.K. leaves you with an incomplete statistic.
I have never been a details guy.

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In the northern hemisphere winter, you can take a two and a half mile walk from the U.S. to Russia if you bring your passport.

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The article “the” should only be capitalized to "The" for The Gambia and The Bahamas and not for the Netherlands or the Philippines.

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If it were possible to place the biggest known star exactly where our sun is, its diameter would fill the solar system out as far as the orbit of Saturn.

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