Do as I say and nobody gets hurt
Because dead cat blogging wasn’t enough to destroy my traffic completely, I’m going to talk about myself. Bugs ‘n’ Gas Gal (who is blogging again, at least a bit) has tagged me with a meme. And it goes a little something like this…
- Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
- Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
- Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
- Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
- Present an image of martial discord from whatever period or situation you’d like.
Hm. Rule #5 must be a milblog thing. How about the famous Roman Weasels, eh?
Numero Uno. I lived in a commune for a few years as a child. It was alternately a religious commune and a plain old hippie commune, depending on what flavor of nutcake was in charge at the time. This was right before I went to retarded school. As a result of my rich cultural experiences, I speak fluent fundie, hippie and retard.
Although, to be fair, learn one of those and the other two are pretty easy.
Nombre Dooce. I am deathly allergic to Brazil nuts. So why not move to the one country on the whole damn planet where people think Brazil nuts are even worth cracking? Also, I was in my twenties before I heard them called “Brazil nuts.”
Free. My great-grandfather was murdered in his bed in 1906. Somebody leaned in the screen door while he was napping and shot him dead. Everybody suspected one particular field hand — who afterwards married my great-grandmother. I didn’t know that last fact until recently. If I’d been a boy, they were going to name me Sam Houston Weasel after him.
Catarrh. Continuing our Texas theme, one of my forbears was a signer of the Declaration of Independence…of Texas. He had a long and bitter land dispute with Stephen Austin, which my ancestor won years after both were dead. If I’d been a boy, I’d want to be named Sterling Robertson Weasel, after him — only because “Sterling” is a dead cool name.
Cinco, cinco, cinco. I love fried Spam sammiches. With melted muenster. On a Portuguese bolo. With mayo and barbecue sauce. Please not to be asking me how I discovered this happy combination of gustatory delights.
Seece. By the time I came along, the novelty had worn off the whole “teach your child to tell time” thing for my parents, so I just had to imagine how a clock works. As a result, the clock in my head is a 24-hour clock with only one hand that runs counter-clockwise. And I still visualize time that way.
Also featured in my head: the numbers 1-20 look like piano keys (the white ones) running from left to right, but after 20 they turn and stack vertically in groups of 100. These “clump” into groups of a thousand, that clump into ten thousands and so on. Then from about 100,000 to a million, they run in vertical stacks of a million each, which clump into billions. Until you get to the huge numbers, which still look like piano keys, but drift ahead like stepping stones, with the terrifying and impossible black void of space falling away below them.
I am not good at math.
Sebben. Good lord! Who’d’ve thunk I could ever get tired of talking about myself? Number seven is…I secretly love these meme things for permission to indulge. But I secretly hate them because I’m too shy to tag forward, let alone seven people. I imagine the recipient thinking, “Dammit! Weasel! Meme!”
So if you’re in my blogroll and you’re struggling for blog fixin’s, consider yourself tagged. If I see a tagback, I’ll link you up for that awesome weaselanche.
Update: His Maj took the bait.
Posted: June 18th, 2008 under blogging, personal.
Comments: 61
Comments
Comment from Lemur King
Time: June 18, 2008, 4:05 pm
Ok. I’ll bite. It’ll have to happen after 9pm, but sign me up.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 18, 2008, 4:06 pm
I’ll link directly to it when it’s borned.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: June 18, 2008, 4:21 pm
What sort of religion did they have there? Eastern mysticism? Fundie Christian? Raelian?
Comment from BGG
Time: June 18, 2008, 4:59 pm
Nice pic of the Roman weasel conqueror. I came, I saw, I…bit?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 18, 2008, 5:04 pm
Fundie Christian, Musli. Jesus freaks. There was considerable cross-breeding between the hippies and the fundies in the early ’70s.
Comment from porknbean
Time: June 18, 2008, 5:23 pm
*rubs chin*
Hmmm…Sam Houston? The Sam Houston, or a dude with his name? *totally gullible*
Portuguese bolo? Why on earth would you sauce up a hat? Though I must admit, munster/mayo/barbiecue with spam doesn’t sound half bad. At all.
The husband has a friend and coworker named ‘Sterling’. For the longest time I couldn’t remember it, so started calling him ‘Oneida’. It stuck.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: June 18, 2008, 5:23 pm
It escapes my comprehension how fundies and hippies can form an alliance. But evidently there were a number of strange Christian groups out there back then. Hopefully, we’ve sobered up a bit.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 18, 2008, 5:26 pm
Named after the Sam Houston, I’ve always assumed, PnB. I don’t think we’re related.
I don’t know, Musli. It’s a short drive from dropping acid to speaking in tongues, if’n you ask me.
Comment from Steve Skubinna
Time: June 18, 2008, 5:27 pm
Hey, I like the Legionary Weasel graphic. We can call it, uh… Lucius Vorweasel? Stoatus Pullo?
Okay, Julius Weasar?
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: June 18, 2008, 5:34 pm
It’s a short drive from dropping acid to speaking in tongues, if’n you ask me.
I’d have to agree.
Oneida: another “interesting” community
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 18, 2008, 7:12 pm
I came, I saw, I ate runnybabbit!
Minions, trolls, and Badgerbuggers!
I came to eat runnybabbits,
Not to praise them….
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 18, 2008, 7:31 pm
F’ing runnybabbits ate our strawberries, but I’ll hit the farmers market this weekend and no one will be the wiser 😉
Comment from Allen
Time: June 18, 2008, 7:46 pm
A little known Roman historical tidbit. There has been a common misconception about the defeat of Hannibal. The Romans cleverly released bags of weasels in front of Hannibal’s elephants. Tha rampaging weasels frightened the elephants, causing them to panic and charge in the wrong direction.
The Romans followed up and defeated Hannibal’s army. So you see, what really strikes terror into an elephant’s heart is the dreaded Roman Rampaging Weasel.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: June 18, 2008, 7:50 pm
It’s heartbreaking, TI, isn’t it?. I went on a quest for a particular variety of raspberry, found it, planted it – only for the little bastards to get right into my fruit cage and kill two of the canes.
The good news is that, today, three large raised beds magically appeared in the garden of Badger House, while a deep ditch was dug around the fruit cage and runnybabbit-poroof (ha!) wire was buried deep and wide, to keep the vermin out.
Uncle B also had a visit from….. The Ferret Man….
Runnybabbit in raspberry sauce… that’d be a just dessert.
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 18, 2008, 8:03 pm
Nah UB, I don’t eat the strawberries so it’s nothing personal, but I get tired of listening to the wailing, gnashing of teeth, and pulling of hair that goes on in the house. Most of the rest of the garden is in beds that the bunnies don’t mess w/ much, but the ‘berries are out front (not my choice). We spray a doe urine/something else awful combo that deters them except it’s rained so damned much you have to pretty much spray it every day. Problem there: that stuff smells like ass, and you can TASTE IT! when you spray it.
On a different, and slightly pervy, note. The beginnings of wailing, gnashing and pulling have begun b/c the tomatoes have failed to pollinate. I suggested “human intervention” and that we pollinate the plants (not really a big deal just have to distinguish between boy flowers and girl flowers). My sister freaked.
Edit: Helps if I read before I hit post. The tomatoes just need a good shaking, the zucs need the boy and girl flowers matched up.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 18, 2008, 8:05 pm
Tell ya what – here in my neighborhood we have runnybabbits coming outa our collective asses. A brood of nine(?) were raised next to the house foundation, and both my neighbors had nests of ’em, too. I saw 5 halflings yesterday morning when I went out for the newspaper, and 7(!) this morning. They’re chewing through everyone’s plastic “critter fence” and getting in the gardens!
Time to get out my CO2 pellet pistol. I’m of a mind to pop some wabbit. My neighbor hits ’em with his hunting bow. Man, is he a good shot. I swear he can twang ’em right up the ass from 30 yards away – no problem.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 18, 2008, 8:07 pm
Going out to pollinate the ‘matoes evokes such profoundly disturbing images, I just don’t want to think about it.
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 18, 2008, 8:10 pm
Yeah McGoo that’s pretty much where she was at too. But, if you want the fruit you gotta do the dirty work 😛
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 18, 2008, 8:12 pm
You plantophiles are sick…sick, I tell you!
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 18, 2008, 8:15 pm
Yeah, but there’s no database for us, and I can live as close to a ‘mato plant as I want 🙂
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 18, 2008, 8:53 pm
Gettin’ squishy!
Uh-oh. Incoming Tomato Haiku…
Tomato prevert…
Having my way with Romas
Poundin’ my Beefsteak!
Cherry Tomato,
Arousing my passion tonight.
Where’s the fuckin’ salt?
My Burpee Big Boy!
Sweet ‘mato of my desire
Give me some squishy!
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 18, 2008, 8:55 pm
We have a Todd Amish heritage ‘mato plant. Work w/ that 🙂
Comment from Allen
Time: June 18, 2008, 9:05 pm
Plantophiles are sick? Hah! I have a vineyard Weas, I grow alcohol. 500 bottles a year, I have the most mellow and the friendliest neighbors. It’s kind of cool when your neighbors are willing to shoot trespassers on your property.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 18, 2008, 9:06 pm
Todd County Amish
Hot tomato of my dreams
You drive me buggy!
…and from what I just read, those TC Amish are pretty rare puppies, T-I! Exotic.
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 18, 2008, 9:31 pm
Yeppers. We’ve got a baby ‘mato on it–fingers crossed.
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 18, 2008, 9:37 pm
Damn, heritage=heirloom. No reading comp at the moment.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 18, 2008, 9:40 pm
Won’t be long, then. Full-grown, they weigh in at 1-2 lb. if what I read is right. So you won’t need many.
Yep. If you’re gonna grow stuff, you should grow interesting stuff. Anyone can grow a Better Boy.
You should consider sending Badger some seeds. Couldn’t hurt…
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 18, 2008, 9:44 pm
Is it okay to send fruit (it’s not a fucking veg) overseas? Didn’t think it was, but most of what I’ve dealt w/ was NZ and Aus and they’re extremely strict.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 18, 2008, 10:12 pm
I think you’re right about importing “plant matter”. Like driving into California from Az. Just send him seeds. Better yet – smuggle ’em: its more fun.
Are tomato seeds one of the ones that require an extended “cold” environment before they’ll germinate? Mom used to put certain seeds in the freezer over the Winter so they would germinate the following Spring. I don’t remember what kinds, though.
Comment from LemurKing
Time: June 19, 2008, 12:01 am
Ok, Weas. Posted, you are linked, and now I must go give notice to the condemned.
McGoo… tag.
Enas…tag.
KC… tag.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: June 19, 2008, 7:27 am
Uh-oh, that’s torn it, TI. I don’t think her Ladyship realised I hand-pollinate my tomatoes.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 19, 2008, 7:46 am
<faints>
Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: June 19, 2008, 7:55 am
TI, I was in Italy and ordered a platter of grilled vegetables. I got tomatoes, zucchini, and potatoes. Yeah, um, no.
Also, SCOTUS has ruled that tomatoes are vegetables. No, I’m not kidding.
Comment from Gibby Haynes
Time: June 19, 2008, 8:50 am
Never, ever, had problems with tomato pollination.
What varieties do you guys grow? San Marzano all the way with me. Why have hamburger when you can have steak and all that.
I’m growing a lot of representatives of the Solanaceae family this year: tobacco, aubergine, tomato, potato, chili pepper and bell pepper. I know I’m always harping on about it, but still find it fascinating that they’re all related.
Say Musli, are you familiar with Bhut Jolokia/Naga Jolokia chilis? I’ve just ordered some seeds. The consensus is that they’re the hottest chili in the world. The label on the packet simply said ‘Bhut Jolokia x 20 Caution’ so I, being somewhat of a moron said to myself, ‘Pfft, I know best’ popped a single seed on my tongue and then proceeded to suffer for half an hour.
Comment from Lokki
Time: June 19, 2008, 10:23 am
This is probably not the thread in which to mention Mrs. Lokki’s excitement about the recent appearance of a baby runnybabbit in our Dallas suburban flower garden. She also has a brace ofwild ducks, two or three squirrels, Blue Jays, Cardinals (complete with three baby Cardinals) feeding sumptiously at Lokki’s expense. This does not include the sparrows, et al and other ‘children of Gaia’ who are too numerous to enumerate.
I can definitively tell you that baby rabbits prefer carrots to apples, celery, or summer squash. Currently they seem to prefer the prepared little pre-washed carrots although these must still be sliced into smaller pieces to meet Mrs. Lokki’s standards. Fortunately, she has not considered strawberries or raspberries yet, although I did have to convince her that fresh mango is a flavor probably wasted on young, unsophisticated runnybabbits.
Now in honor of Steamboat – Smutty Tomato Haiku
On hot summer nights
I love round ripe tomatoes
dripping warm sweet juice
My lover’s soft breasts
remind me of tomatoes
deliciously ripe
Alone in my bed
I dream of ripe tomatoes
soft and warm, squeezed tight
And seriously, I DO have a fetish for cherry tomatoes….
Comment from jwpaine
Time: June 19, 2008, 12:00 pm
“Brazil nuts”? That what they’re calling them these days? Heh. Not as colorful, of course, as the old nomenclature (it was originally named after the miserly 15th letter of the alphabet).
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 19, 2008, 12:12 pm
15th? Not 14th? Or am I having another wrinkled moment?
Beautimous Musework, L.
Comment from Lemur King
Time: June 19, 2008, 12:19 pm
Oh my, Lokki, that haiku, how you do go on… methinks I must go shower now.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: June 19, 2008, 12:36 pm
That’s interesting, Gibby – the Solanacaea family is one of my favourites, too – mostly because of its huge diversity and sheer usefulness (including the interesting sedative drugs it produces).
Then again, I am still deeply confused by what family means in this context. As I understand it, plants were categorised according to their physical similarities – so if plant X had a three lobed hairy leaf and star-shaped yellow flowers, for example, it might have been put in the same family as another similarly endowed plant, albeit one from some far flung continent with no obvious connection.
But is that a relationship or is it mere similarity?
I asked a taxonomist once and he lost me after the third sentence. I got the impression he rather hoped he might.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 19, 2008, 1:23 pm
…duh….
Yep. A wrinkled moment.
…And anyone who speaks more than 3 consecutive words of latin by way of explanation to a civil question without immediately translating it should be slapped upside the head – every 30 seconds.
Comment from Steve Skubinna
Time: June 19, 2008, 1:24 pm
My mother once told me what she and her compatriots called Brazil nuts when she was a kid. It was racist. Also funny.
Also Mrs. Peel, I though it was the US Congress that designated tomatoes as vegetables. Better go to google, see if they can take the time from handing over dissidents to the PRC to help.
Comment from Lemur King
Time: June 19, 2008, 1:25 pm
McGoo said I ought post this here. I was berating him for APOLOGIZING to me (and here I, a padawan Asshole™® who looks up to him, am crushed)… can you just imagine how I felt? A black-belt ninja Asshole™® *apologizing* for breaking the meme train? He ain’t sick but he must not be well.
So how’s about a little poetry which, had Frost lived longer, I’m sure he would have said:
“The Denny’s coffee is lovely, dark and deep. But I have Goths to smack, and hours to go before I sleep.” – Bizarro-Frost
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 19, 2008, 1:33 pm
I blame the fact the fireworks stands aren’t open until tomorrow.
Comment from Steve Skubinna
Time: June 19, 2008, 1:34 pm
Okay, Mrs. Peel. SCOTUS it was. God bless ’em.
Comment from Gibby Haynes
Time: June 19, 2008, 1:37 pm
That’s interesting, Gibby
You’re damn right it is. Do you think I’d be fascinated by something that wasn’t interesting? I’m not a kitten.
Regarding the family thing: I’ve no idea. The flowers of Solanaceae are sort of similar…sort of. Anyway, whatever it is that caused them all to be lumped together, I’m glad it did; no other family has produced so much eating, smoking and occasionally weaponising pleasure to me.
Comment from Lemur King
Time: June 19, 2008, 1:50 pm
Gibby, the Jolokia is rumored to have a scoville rating up around a million to 1.2 million.
In contrast, the normal habanero is somewhere in the neighborhood of 250,000 to 350,000. The Red Savina peppers I grew last year are 350,000 to 600,000. All ratings are rough guidelines only because it varies from individual pepper to pepper, the growing conditions, soil, etc. (if I understand it right – everyone has a different opinion) Those numbers roughly fit my experiences.
The Jalokia peppers scare even me.
So what is with the interest in the nightshade family, anyhow? Datura is one of them, which has always interested me. I’ve found it fascinating how some plants in this family have some edible parts, others will kill you if you even look at them, and some of them (tobacco) seem to want you to keep eating them.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 19, 2008, 1:52 pm
Gibby – isn’t it pretty much agreed nowadays that the nomenclature/categorizing scheme invented way back on <The Good Ol’ Days is woefully inadequate and inaccurate? But no one who knows it wants to change it, and everyone who doesn’t know it doesn’t care?
..And S-S – hence my “15th letter of the alphabet” comment.
I’m reading a book on Spices (for the second time because most of my books are packed and I don’t feel like buying more right now, and I’m out of fresh eye-food). Peppers and chili’s are interesting.
Comment from Lokki
Time: June 19, 2008, 1:53 pm
Solanaceae! This gives me a chance to drop one of my favorite Ambrose Bierce quotes from the Devil’s Dictionary:
Belladonna, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential similarity of the two tongues.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: June 19, 2008, 2:06 pm
Sorry, Gibby. Those peppers don’t sound familiar to me.
We use a few types of peppers, but the ones we use the most for spiciness isn’t really very spicy by itself. We adjust spiciness with quantity rather than quality. This way, Mom can use the same recipe and ingredients when she makes something for home (where “you all go see-see soo-soo *roll eyes*” (what Mom says) when things are spicy (the sounds one makes when something’s spicy)) and when she makes something for a party with relatives, who like spicy stuff: all she has to do is increase the number of peppers.
We use I suppose what one would call green chili peppers (in Urdu, haree mirch or “green pepper/spicy thing”). Something spicy is called, mirchedaar.
Comment from Gibby Haynes
Time: June 19, 2008, 2:16 pm
Lemur – yeah, it was hearing about the Scoville Scale which prompted me to buy some. No more will I lie awake at night worrying that I’ve never tried the hottest chili on this rock.
I’m just interested in the family since I consume a lot of its members.
McG – I hadn’t heard that, but it makes sense. In any case, I hope they leave it be. I suspect it’d be a massive job to take it all apart from the top down. And anyway, no scientist would be able to get a grant for a project like that unless they managed to convince the granter that it had something to do with Global Warming! and how it was going to kill us all.
Lokki – I’d forgotten about Belladonna. A powerful hallucinogen and a poison. Solanaceae – the gift that keeps on giving.
Musli – No worries. I thought you might have heard of them. They’re from the Indian Subcontinent. I wish my mother could cook…
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 19, 2008, 2:52 pm
Gibby – I can’t rely upon my memory of what I read, but (IIRC) the first issue with the classical taxonomic system is that a bunch of specie, genera, family, order, etc members are dead wrong. They look like they belong in a given cubbyhole or on a particular branch or whatever, and often even have a majority of similar characteristic’s – but are totally unrelated when examined genetically.
The second issue is that the system works so darned well even with the wrinkles that there is little inclination to change it. There is also “generational” inertia, i.e. the old farts don’t want changes. I can understand that.
Comment from Gnus
Time: June 19, 2008, 3:17 pm
Long live Donnatal.
Just sayin’.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: June 19, 2008, 4:29 pm
McGoo – I’m sure I read that they are now starting to work on categorisation by DNA which is, I’d have thought, the only sensible way of doing it.
Traditional Linean taxonomy (on which the current relationships are based) could only have been done by appearance and, surely, that can’t be right?
As for Gibby’s point about leaving it alone – no chance of that, I’m afraid! Bloody plant names are changing all the time, anyway. I can think of a few that have changed twice in my gardening lifetime.
Comment from LemurKing
Time: June 19, 2008, 5:55 pm
Lokki – To appease all the Carlos Castaneda fans, we can’t forget Datura (Jimsonweed).
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 19, 2008, 6:14 pm
Datura!
I read about that stuff in a Trevanian novel – Eiger Sanction, I think. I have always kept it in mind in case I really wanted to take revenge on someone. A sufficiently serious opportunity has not occurred yet. But when it does, Steamboat McGoo De’ Medici will surge into action!
Yep, Badger, on both counts. The original taxonomy was done on the basis of eyeball- and, later, microscopic- observation of species. But Nature often tossed in ringers. These were only found out (for the most part) when DNA testing was done.
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 19, 2008, 7:18 pm
Ahh, systematics. Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Linnaeus started out splitting plants and animals (makes sense) and minerals (not so much sense) into three kingdoms. Current thought is that isn’t quite good enough and we’ve added domains in front of kingdoms–3 domains: bacteria, eukarya, and archaea. The wiki information is pretty decent on biological classifications.
Systematists are the extreme OCD types in the biology field, but it’s an interesting study. Most classifications were done by visual examination and grouping by an amateur “expert” naturalist in that area/group. Current classifications are typically based on mtDNA, protein, or other genetic analysis in addition to examining the species prior designation.
Comment from LemurKing
Time: June 19, 2008, 7:53 pm
The bizarre things about jimson weed – it’s a weed and you can find it almost literally anywhere, and the other thing is teenagers have been known to use it to get high. Problem is the difference between trippin’ and dyin’ is like razor thin.
Neal Stephenson writes in the Baroque Cycle, of an assassin that paints his blades with nicotine, and if it is a true description… oh that’s nasty stuff.
I got really interested in plants in general McGoo, and it is frightening how many common plants can kill or make you really sick. The list is longer than the list of good things (nearly). Enough to really freak a parent out if they want to indulge in torturing themselves silly with worry.
Was the Eiger Sanction worth running down and reading?
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: June 19, 2008, 8:00 pm
DAMN IT!!!! We’re under another fucking t’storm warning looking at tornadoes. I’ve spent more time trapped in the basement w/ family in the last month than I care to think about.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 19, 2008, 9:18 pm
The Eiger Sanction? Um, it’s not bad as long as you aren’t looking for a deep message or anything. The movie quoted the book almost line-for-line and was poorly acted. Eastwood could have done better if he’d dressed up the dialog for “viewing” instead of reading. But it’s sassy and has a few good lines in it.
If you want to read Trevanian, try Shibumi or Hot Night in the City. The Basque short stories are absolutely hilarious.
In Eiger Sanction the assassin Johnathan Hemlock arranges for some Datura seeds to be processed to taint some wine given to an enemy. The enemy was described as spending the rest of his life in an asylum staring into space and humming the same single tone all day long.
Comment from LemurKing
Time: June 19, 2008, 10:47 pm
Cripes, TI. Sorry to hear that. (attempting to crack a joke) Perhaps if you seeded the area about 1/2 mile away with trailer parks to draw them off? Ok, bad joke. Sorry. Hope it all works out safely.
‘Goo…”Jonathan Hemlock” the assassin? Ok, that’s rich.
Navajo saying about Datura: “Eat a little, and go to sleep. Eat some more, and have a dream. Eat some more, and don’t wake up.”
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