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      The website was homestarrunner.com and before YouTube, we used to just manually check the website. It was part of my day to check and see if anything new was on the site Also notable was that they never advertised. Their entire operation was done by word-of-mouth, in a time where there were no Facebook or reddit or YouTube or anything. The internet was a lot more wild then.

      Homestarrunner (“It’s dot com!”), Weebl and Bob, nuklearpower, Joe Cartoon, Bob and George… it was a different world.

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          Then Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White
          And Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s black knight
          And Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie
          And Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie
          Robocop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk, and Darth Vader
          Lo-pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger
          Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan
          Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan
          All came out of nowhere lightning fast
          And they kicked Chuck Norris in his cowboy ass

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            It was the bloodiest battle that the world ever saw

            With civilians looking on in total awe

            Well the fight raged on for a century

            Many lives were claimed, but eventually

            A champion stood, the rest saw their better

            Mr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater

            Edit: formatting

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              I’m so glad I’m not the only one that remembers these lyrics. I imagine a very specific subset of our generation singing it in nursing homes before much longer.

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        10 months ago

        Frog in a blender was one of my favorites. I think there was a hamster one too.

        Of course we can’t forget Hamster Dance and Badger Badger Badger.