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Originally Posted by montsnmags
My (actually "our", with my sister) first album, as bought for us by mum and dad (*), was ABBA's Arrival. Me, my sister, and the similarly aged brother-and-sister duo from over the road used to turn it up and and pretend we were ABBA. I was always the one we tended to call "monkey-man" (Björn). I think I was about 6 at the time.
There's probably a connection between this and a favourite movie of mine, Muriel's Wedding. 
(* The first album I bought for myself was Devo's Freedom of Choice)
Cheers,
Marc |
Whenever I think of ABBA, it's the picture of the two girls from that movie doing their ad lib that pops into my head!! I wish I could say I was only 6 to explain my knowledge of ABBA. Unfortunately, I was old enough to know better! Although, I have to also admit that I loved disco!
I know, I know, "Oh the humanity!!", but it was great fun and I was in college and you do crazy things when you get away from home for the first time. . . Don't you?
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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy
And I definitely need one for technological stuff. I'm not way below or anything like that, I just need that little extra help 
ABBA--- I still am not over blaming ABBA for me getting a B on my German final in 11th grade. You see, a friend of mine was "in love" with this dumb boy who had brown eyes. And he didn't like her back. She was obsessed, and kept playing ABBA songs over and over. There was one (and I've totally and utterly blocked out which one it was) she specifically related to this kid. She sang it constantly. She played it on repeat in her car. It was all I heard for a month. It went through my mind constantly. It drove me *crazy.* So, come finals day, I couldn't get that song out of my head enough to conjugate verbs and whatever else I had to do. Therefore, a B. Coming from a straight A student, OH the shame.... |
I wish I could relate to the Straight A thing, but my parents didn't stress grades very much. After seeing my dad's, the PE teacher/football coach, transcripts from college, I understood why!
Thank goodness he could play football! Luckily for me, I'm one of those people who doesn't really need to study a lot to get away with B's.
Imagine what I could have accomplished if I had cracked open a book once in awhile!
Hmmm, President Kaz sounds pretty good!!
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
It was Mothers' Day here too.
Cheers,
Marc
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I'm so glad we weren't alone!
Kaz