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I think you mean "over 21" for the first part.

Oh, boy (from Wikipedia):

I thought the version that played at The Station already had him as the only remaining original member. (The guitarist who was killed was only 19, which means he had been a child during their relative heyday.) Is this a reunited original lineup sans him, or is it an even more pointless remnant of the 2003 lineup?

I never thought of this song (or most songs of this type) as actually representing a speech delivered out loud. It is like an aside in Elizabethan drama - it has to be said out loud for the sake of the audience, but the character is not actually meant to be perceived as saying it audibly (or at least not in public).

The term has become such a cliché (and post-1990-or-so almost never used except as an insult) that it can be easy to forget that it does have the word "correct" in it.

I did it look it up - the answer is no. The name is not even close, so I don't know where I got the idea. But I may have vaguely heard of this Oakley guy somewhere.

I thought I would have heard of at least one of these people just by chance, but no - not one. (Or is Tyler the guy who said "Leave Britney alone?" I am not going to look that up - but if so, I guess he deserves some sort of credit for still being around today. Whatever happened to lonelygirl15?)

Was there a clue about one/both of them? I already don't remember.

No, the connection was with "Era of Good Feelings." The Monroe Doctrine was not until halfway through his second term.

In my mind I still think of myself as young and not too far in age from someone like Catherine - until she got those two "who?" music questions (and then also failed to know the Spice Girls).

The New Jersey setting is flexible - this definitely had the look of a storm in an area that has regular late-November snow.

My memory is that several affiliates refused to air it and there was a lame Weekend Update bit finding a different reason to make fun of each one of them. (The only one remember is "Boston - they just don't like black people.")

I don't know if I can find a way to actually link this with Citizens United.

All right - the memory has faded. I guess I need to rewatch the movie. I do know that all the fellow young staffers were made up or composites.

I remember Kelly as a columnist, and whether or not you agreed with his political stances, it was very clear that his personality was completely unlike the Kelly of the movie.

A different Glass piece documented alleged debauchery at a meeting for young conservatives (which probably does go on, but the details were all made up).

In the hard-core Jeopardy! world they call these obvious clues "Pavlovs" - e.g., any "Norwegian playwright" must be Ibsen; any "German opera composer" must be Wagner - you can just zone out on the rest of the clue.

I think it was because I had never heard of that show before at the time. Also, it can be fun to see pride as it goeth before a fall.

I know Rabin has a lot of good will from his lengthy tenure here, but his comments here are actually pretty similar to the much-criticized infamous WKRP roundtable.

Yeah, I never saw any of the movies, but the commercials were on TV a lot. As sometimes happens with commercials built around a character instead of around the product, I have no memory of what he was selling.