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I hear it all the time. The people on twitter are twits, twittering tales of hairballs and haircuts. Bloggers have been moaning about the noise on twitter, and predicting the date the site will close down, yet twitter remains a powerful communications force in the online world.

I think it has something to do with that thing they call API…the stuff programmers use to talk to twitter and make other tools that use twitter information for something else. I didn’t really understand what use it would be to aggregate all these useless posts, until I noticed that some people are posting really valuable stuff. Like the BBC and CNN! Yes, these news sites twitter their top headlines into their twitter account, for all the world to see.

Now, things like twittervision are interesting, and give you a glimpse of world twitter activity, but it sure can waste time too…kind of like what a twit would do, right?

With a little thoughtfulness, you might be able to imagine twittervision done right - showing only the twitters of your friends or a region. So far, that’s not happening. But there are a lot of powerful tools being developed to make twitter more personal and available. Like the SMS integration, which lets you read and respond to twitterings from your cell phone. Or twitterfox, a firefox browser plugin that lets your twitters pop up while you surf. This latter tool is even more powerful now, by filtering the replies from your posts, so you can scroll through the responses from others, and respond to them with one click of the mouse.

Other people are using twitter for business, and developing their reach even further simply by posting some of their work on twitter. Lately, I have found poets, reporters, marketers, ceo’s, and others, all focusing their twitters to provide useful content relating to their specialty. It makes me think that soon all the major business communications will be carried over twitter, as a new medium to reach a wider audience.

The beauty of twittering is it is like instant messaging, without being instant. People don’t expect an immediate response, don’t see if you are online or not, but do get to see your response when you post it, so they can catch up to the conversation whenever they want to, and respond to things without worrying about the interactive requirements of a phone conversation or instant messaging session (big time wasters in this world of ours).

Still, there are millions of people using twitter, and many of them are twits, twittering about toilets and termites that no one else wants to hear about. I like people who do something to fix this problem, and one free tool is at Quotably, and lets you search twitter and group responses into conversations that you can read and respond to. It’s quite powerful when you think about it, and perhaps it will help you to see where twitter might go in the future.

It’s an exciting world for the twitterers of today.

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Let’s face it. We all love the Internet and its wealth of quick knowledge and information but it has also caused us all our fair share of misery.

Viruses have destroyed our hard drives, financial and sexual predators lay lurking in the shadows and everything else that could possibly be unpleasant is never more than a click of the mouse away.

So in order to not let the world of fast information get you down, it is important to stay in touch with your sense of humor, especially when you are stuck behind a computer all day. The daily frustrations of dealing with the Internet and computers can leave even the most pleasant of people in a fowl mood, so it’s important for all of us to keep ourselves laughing out loud online.

One of the biggest reasons that more people are smiling behind their computer screens is the sudden mass influx of funny video file sharing sites. These sites allow any user from anywhere in the world log on and view real-time videos from all over the world.

They are usually organized in a manner that anyone can easily search for and find something of interest. For example, if you are a cat lover you would not have any difficulties busting a gut over some hilarious kitty videos. There is an abundance of websites and video sharing sites that specialize in home videos of cats doing what they do best; being hilarious.

The most common way for people to stumble upon these sites is through a recommendation from a friend. In the digital world, this can come from a variety of sources but is usually contained as a forward in an email, a reminder on a social networking site or even spoken in person.

The sheer wealth of funny information, especially pictures and videos is overwhelming. And it is definitely a buyers market because most of the funny information you find online comes at absolutely no cost.

The popularity of social networking sites has made finding solid humor much easier for many people. These sites allow users to post website addresses for funny pictures or videos that their friends can see. So if a few of your friends share the same sense of humor, then you can be in constant exchange of links to funny videos or other online content.

Although it is probably not the best idea to send funny forwards to your friends while on the job, many people are guilty of it. Nevertheless, receiving a funny email right in the middle of a stressful day can give you the boost you need to get through until five o’clock.

More and more these days we are holed up in front of our computers for longer and longer periods of time. We are interacting with each other less and most of us are certainly laughing a lot less.

As the old adage goes, laughter is the best medicine, and that still applies in a modern and ever-changing world.

So even though the Internet can be a frustrating world at some times, it offers the perfect market for soothing the nerves through humor. No matter what comedic styles you prefer, there is a guaranteed over-abundance just waiting to be found online.

So click your way to laughter today. Your mood and stress level will thank you for it.

Andy West is a writer for Fubar Website Reviews and Deep Sojourner Writings.

“Rich Man, Poor Man” was a game I played as a child. The first button on my clothes was rich man - the second was poor man. Buttons three through eleven were beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor. My last button foretold who I would marry. The game hasn’t changed, but my definition of husband material has.

As a child I thought a millionaire was a rich man. I didn’t know about taxes and income brackets. Now I think a rich man is one who’s happy with what he has - and, of course, isn’t against being happier.

In spite of my buttons, however, I married a poor man - still in college. I remember when we had less than three dollars and John was trying to find a sitter for a visiting professor. I asked him if the sitter was going to get paid. Since we couldn’t stand being poor, I thought we could sit.

The next button was beggar man, which today could be a fundraiser. Registering my phone number with the National Do-Not-Call Registry eliminated calls from telemarketers, but non-profit organizations aren’t eliminated. Whenever I get a call asking for a donation, I ask the caller to send me a written request - but I’ve never gotten one. Although these fundraisers are willing to give me their two cents’ worth on the phone, they’re not willing to put forty-one cents on an envelope.

Next came thief - which also described my husband. Although a mutual friend introduced him to my older sister, he stole my heart. In addition to taking the best years of my life, he’s taken my pregnancy pains, PMS mood swings and menopause hot flashes. In return for stealing my heart, he’s done hard time.

When my last button was a doctor or a lawyer, my mother was pleased. She explained I’d be well taken care of. Mother didn’t know that Indian chiefs were going to have casinos.

Mother also explained that landing on a soldier or a sailor button was safe. They would have a steady job. They’d be in a family business - working for Uncle Sam.

Tinker and tailor are the last buttons in the game. Both are in the fixing business - one fixes pots and the other fixes clothes. These two might be the best husband material. With half of marriages ending in divorce, husbands who are fixers might help.

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A new reader might wonder why some golf pro is “bashing” other golf instructors. Those of you who are familiar with my philosophy and teaching methods understand my “ranting.” For those of you who have not had the distinct pleasure of my company, this article is for you.

If you could read my emails, if you could hear the phone calls I get, if you were present when other golfers tell me what other golf instruction has done TO them not.. FOR them, you may get a glimpse of why I am who I am, The Anti-Pro the Maverick, in the vast sea of Golf.

Lets get real up close and personal. No gossip, no opinions, no prejudice…just the straight scoop, just the facts, Ma’am.

The following examples are real, just the names have been changed to protect the innocent: It’s Monday morning at Bob’s Simple Swing Golf School. The bus rolls in with a load of starry eyed golfers willing to shell out $1500 per week for golf school for him and his wife. That’s $1500 each plus hotel accommodations plus air fare plus meals plus souvenirs. Let’s round it off to around to a cool…5 Grand.

Unless they have been ruined, by another golf school, they show up with a fairly decent natural swing they learned from Uncle Orville. Fast forward to the end of the week and their golf swings have made a complete transformation. Their swing are hardly recognizable from their Monday swings. What was natural is gone. Instead their swings are contrived phony looking, ineffective, inconsistent, powerless, travesties. They have blown $5,000 for something they can’t even use as fertilizer. Bad news for them, good news for the golf school…for you see, next Monday in rolls another bus.

One of my students calls to ask if I can give him a personal lesson. We meet at a local driving range. His swing is terrific, he is hitting the ball long and straight and consistent. I asked him why he thought he needed a golf lesson, and his answer was he just wanted to hang out with me for an hour. Who would blame him? A class from a local college shows up. Kids from 18 to 22 with all the potential of playing some fabulous golf. They hit several balls…not too bad. Then some pot-bellied P.E. instructor starts to show them how to swing the golf club. Oh, my God, can I keep my mouth shut? My student is appalled, I’m fried. In less than 5 minutes these poor kids are missing the ball entirely, hitting the buckets, or the ground and their swings are shot. The more instruction the worse they get. The Dis-tructor is oblivious to the damage he’s inflicting on these poor innocent babes. I would be surprised if any of them haven’t quit our game.

Everyday I get phone calls and emails from golfers telling me how some PGA pro has told them to do this or that and they are confused and frustrated. Why can’t the PGA agree on anything, they ask. Most have ADDED 20 stokes to their scores, have lost 20 to 50 yards, and are seriously considering putting their clubs up for sale on eBay.

For years and years I’ve heard it, seen it, been exposed to the abuse of the golf student…on a daily basis. It is epidemic. It is not something I’m making up to make me look good. I already know how good I am…My students have told me so.

If you had been exposed to what I have, you would start to get some idea as to why I’m The Anti-Pro. You would be too!

At age 15, students came to Jim McLellan at his family owned golf course from four surrounding states for lessons. Jim attended Arizona State University at Tempe on a golf scholarship and graduated from the PGA Golf School in Long Beach, CA. http://www.mcgolf.com

By now you have to have been pulling a Castaway number to have not heard of Operation Chaos. For those aspiring Robinson Crusoe’s among you, Op. Chaos is a brilliant creation of Rush Limbaugh. What he has done is to give all those Conservatives who have missed out on voting against John McCain a new voting life by way of switching parties and becoming “Shadow Democrats” for the remaining DNC primaries.

Oddly enough, Rush is pushing all of these newly switched Shadow-Dems to vote for Hillary. Now isn’t that a kick in the pantsuits. With enough newly acquired “sympathetic supporters” that have come rushing to her from the Republican side, she is quickly closing the gap with her opponent, B. Hussein Obama, AKA, Mr. Real Change.

The result of this mass switch of parties has caused all of the Liberals in the coming state elections to literally seethe in rage at Rush. Oh if only they hadn’t of fought so hard to get rid of firing squads. As usual, Liberalism bites itself on its hemispherical butt.

What is believed is that this unique voting tactic will extend the race for the DNC Honcho-ship while at the same time forcing the Mainstream Media to expose all of the hidden spooks and skeletons in both candidate’s closets. Better still, Op. Chaos has brought to the forefront the true power behind all DNC elections; which is an elusive covert branch referred to as, “The Super Delegates”. These Supreme Liberal Beings are the only Democrats whose votes will ever actually decide who wins the DNC ticket in all future Presidential elections.

Yes, despite the age old, “every vote should count” credo shrieked in wholesale fashion by the Democrats and their mainstream media cohorts; only the Elite Super Delegates have countable votes. Thus, anyone who is dumb enough to vote for their favorite Democrat in a Presidential primary is closer to getting a free pass into Wally World than to have a real voice in who will be the DNC Presidential candidate.

Hey maybe that also explains why “P.T. Barnum” Gore’s Global Warming movement has gotten so popular? As the Democrat Elite know, there is a sucker born every day. Which is why Rush’s next phase of OP. Chaos looks viable.

“The Doomsday Option” phase of Op. Chaos requires the Super Delegate Elitists to completely ignore the highly touted HC and BO candidates and instead elect their own choice for the DNC. Al Gore would be a viable choice except he won’t debate any Republican about Global Warming. Well, anyone except maybe comrade John McCain (see L.I.A.R.) who has completely fallen for this global worm’s scam.

There is also a good chance he could be the Super Delegates favorite choice. Better still, if McCain became the DNC candidate that would mean we could actually have a Republican do-over election! That would light an M-80 under Old Yeller Reid and Pork Salad Pelosi.

That brings us to what I call the third phase of Operation Chaos; the “Ninja Option”. For years we have borne witness to elections being undermined and determined by the Mainstream TV and print media. The primary tools for their cause have always been bias, distortion and the promulgation of socialistic doctrine. This can only be expected from those who are elitist and yet inherently absent of common sense or moral values (see Bill Clinton).

Since the advent of cable news and the internet, all of their collusions with the DNC have slowly been tanking due to their shallow facade of objectivity…along with their failing popularity. About the only weapon of value left within their Liberal arsenal is polling…and boy can they use the polls.

For the past thirty years the Democrat Party has basked in positive polling from their media cohorts like pigs wallowing in slop. They’re just as happy as they can be because they know that most Americans want to be followers rather than trend setters. That’s why Neil Boortz calls them, “Dumb-Masses”. Thus if a poll just happens to claim that the majority of Americans want something like “real changes”, then the masses will follow in lockstep glee.

So in order to take away the Liberal Media’s last offensive weapon, Rush needs to institute the final phase of Operation Chaos, the “Ninja Option”. What this will do is to virtually strip away polling from having any effect on the outcome of all future elections and insure that the MSM cannot alter the true, “will of the people”.

That is because the Ninja Option creates and guarantees an ongoing supply of registered Democrat majorities across the USA. So many in fact, that the DNC will not have a clue as to determining where to defend against or attack Republican candidates before general elections. Imagine them wringing their evil little talons at trying to figure out where to spend money when they have the party voter majorities in just about every place…and you thought you heard Howard Dean screeching before.

The Ninja option of OP. Chaos requires that all participating Republicans who are Rush Babies (Conservatives) switch parties to join the DNC until the end of this 2008 election year. Yes, that means even though your state has already blown its wad on electing L.I.A.R. McCain, you can still get your shot at trying to win back Congress and the Senate to a Republican majority…and do so by becoming a “Ninja Republican” under the Ninja Option!

Don’t worry; you will not be a Democrat for too long. You can switch back to the Right after the General Elections. You won’t be there long enough to be seduced by the dark side of the Farce. No, just put on your Ninja suits, join the DNC and poll as a Democrat but vote Republican. That way the DNC and MSM will be completely befuddled at where to attack Republican candidates. After the elections switch back to being a Republican and vote in your respective state Republican Primaries.

The beauty of this “Party-Hopping” via Operation Chaos and the Ninja Option is that you’ll drive the DNC hierarchy absolutely bug-frigging nuts trying to figure out where they need to work their MSM cohorts and spend their uncontrollable “donor” money. Sure, they can make their claims that a large majority of Americans are Democrats, but that won’t mean flip when they start losing elections because of cross voting Ninja Republicans who are annually infiltrating their party after each state primary.

The cool thing about Operation Chaos and the Ninja Option is that this can be done each and every election year to counter the DNC money machines and the Mainstream Media’s bias and polling. Even though John McCain would be the first Republican to benefit from the Ninja Republicans, maybe we can get him to sign some kind of Conservative Presidential Pre-nuptial agreement? That’s about the only way I’d ever vote for him.

John DeJong is the lead creative designer for NotMeUSA. He has been writing humorous advertisements for over twenty-five years. All of the funny t-shirts, prescription pill bottles, and gag spray bottles were created by him. You can view these by visiting www.notmeusa.com.

With Daylight Saving Time it can be an hour earlier or later than you think - unless you live in Arizona or Hawaii, where they don’t fool with Mother Nature. Congress, of course, can’t resist fooling with her and has repeatedly changed the dates on which Daylight Saving Time begins and ends. As a law-abiding citizen, I sprang ahead an hour on my bedside clock. Who knew my new clock did that automatically. As a result, I woke up two hours ahead - and it’s not good to fool with this mother’s nature.

On the other hand - of the clock, waking up later than we think gives most of us cold sweats - but it gives inventors inspiration. An MIT student invented “Clicky”. When you hit Clicky’s snooze button, it rolls off the nightstand and around the room - beeping and flashing - until you catch it. For those of us with higher standards, there’s “Blowfly”, which soars into the air when the alarm goes off and beeps until you return it to its base. Then there’s the “Gun-Operated Alarm Clock”. For additional snooze time you shoot the clock - which is what we all want to do when the alarm goes off.

We all want to live longer, but women have been living longer than men since the 19th century. As of 2008, women’s life expectancy is 5.4 years longer than men’s. The National Center for Health Statistics, however, predicts that men and women will have the same life expectancy in 50 years. This is good news. It means women won’t be alone as long, which means they won’t get sick as easily, which means they won’t have to go into nursing homes as soon. Frankly, I’m not sure if men will have longer life expectancies in 50 years or if it will just seem that way to them.

Men or women - we all live in fast-paced times; and when we look in the mirror, it can look later than we think. That helps explain why there were 12 million plastic surgeries in 2007. Although women continue to have more procedures than men, men are getting more and more in touch with their feminine side. Men’s cosmetic surgeries increased 13% in 2007. The new trend is couples having surgery together - which I completely understand. Just because a couple has decided to grow old together doesn’t mean they want to look it.

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The term “inner child” applies to our emotional body. Psychologist Carl Jung called it the “divine child”, spiritual leader Emmet Fox called it the “wonder child” and I call it my reason for not having to act grownup all the time.

We all have an inner child; we just talk about it differently. Pablo Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up”. Dr. Seuss said, “Adults are obsolete children” and Woody Harrelson said, “A grownup is a child with layers on”. I think Woody Harrelson’s and my inner children could play well together.

To get to better know my inner girl I took an online test to find out how old she is. There were eight, multiple-choice questions, ranging from what is your favorite pet to what do you want to be when you grow up. I answered the questions, clicked on submit and found out my inner girl is sixteen. This means I’m two years away from not having an inner girl or I’m two years away from having one’s that’s old enough to know better.

Having found out how old my inner girl is, I took another online test to find out how she feels. This time there were five, multiple-choice questions, ranging from why I’m like a child to what is my favorite game. I answered the questions, clicked on submit and found out she’s happy. Unfortunately, the test said that adult me thought life was simple and that I didn’t worry - which worried me because I do worry - but maybe inner children are like other children and don’t listen to adults.

I hope spare the rod and spoil the child doesn’t apply to inner children. If they survive the trip to adulthood and all the “are-we-there-yet’s” along the way, they deserve to be spoiled - and Las Vegas is just the place to do it.

Las Vegas is Disneyland for adults. Hotels with names like New York-New York, Paris and Rio put the fan in fantasy. With no clocks in the casinos, it’s no time like the present all the time. Add to that all-you-can-eat buffets, where desserts outnumber green vegetables ten to one and shows that end at ten or one and you have a 24/7 party. In Las Vegas your inner child can be born again without you getting a year older.

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There are many activities to be indulged in to avoid the boredom that comes from driving but few of them are legal and most require that you remove at least one hand from the wheel with the possible implications of being stopped for careless driving. If you have to travel but are easily bored, try using chauffeur car hire to get around and then indulge yourself in all sorts of fun.

Dancing is one possibility. Many a time, my daughter and I have made up our own version of the hand jive whilst driving along. This is great fun and people look at you like your crazy but after one nasty experience where I got my sleeve caught on the gear stick, I decided this was dangerous. Now employ the use of chauffeur car hire and you can dance to your heart’s content in the back seat. People will still look at you like you’re crazy but trust me, it’s them, not you.

People-watching is so much more fun when you don’t have to drive. Using chauffeur car hire makes this past time so much easier. It’s amazing that other drivers are under the impression they have blacked out windows or an invisibility cloak over their cars when they’re stuck in traffic. Nose pickers are the worst. Their little rituals over what to do with their nasal secretion varies little and often culminates in rolling and flicking.

Of course, there is always eating. This is difficult to do when you’re driving and often results in burger sauce all over your steering wheel but get your chauffeur to drive and all manner of silverware is at your disposal.

Waving at people, contrary to popular belief, does not stop being fun once you’re out of primary school. Challenge your companion to get the most poker faced nearby driver to raise a faint smile and you may be surprised. If you use chauffeur car hire, direct your driver into inner city traffic and the waving business will keep you amused for hours. Lorry drivers are a pretty sure bet, particularly if you’re young and blonde, or young and dark, or middle aged and female. In fact, if you have a pulse, you’ll get a wave returned by a lorry driver.

A major past time to be carried out in a car is, of course, sex. In fact, at the age of eighteen, this is a veritable right and part of completing the puberty process. Get to forty and it’s not so easy. Joints are stiffer and less flexible and, unless you’re newly single, mustering up the energy is virtually impossible. Again, chauffeur car hire comes into its own. Slide up that privacy partition and slide into position with the ease and grace that usually befits someone of a more recent generation.

If you’re using chauffeur car hire instead of driving, you have the luxury of being able to consume alcohol. This will lead to a plethora of things that seem fun to do at the time. Believing you can sing is one of the drawbacks and will see you screeching out ballads at the top of your voice. Writing ‘HELP’ on the rear window in lipstick will be fun until you get pulled over by the police and will make you look stupid if you don’t take into account that you have to write it backwards to be read from the outside.

Of course, on really long journeys all these games will become tedious after a while. There is only one thing left to do and that is to see just how many orange cones you can get in the back of your car. Orange cones are the source of endless amounts of fun unless you end up in casualty with one stuck on your head, in which case you will just feel like a prat.

Entertainments expert Catherine Harvey looks at the advantages of chauffeur car hire over personal driving.

Sometimes Americans can have too much of a good thing - like artificial sweeteners. Pink packets of Sweet & Low turned iced tea into my drink of choice. Sweet & Low, however, contains saccharin, which can have a bitter taste, which opened the market to Equal in 1965. The blue packets of Equal contain aspartame, which caused a health scare, which opened the market to Splenda’s yellow packets in 1999. In the $1.5 billion business of artificial sweeteners, Splenda outsells Equal, which outsells Sweet & Low, which means Sweet & Low is hard to find in restaurants. This means anyone who wants an artificial sweetener that actually dissolves in iced tea isn’t in the pink.

Public Storage companies are everywhere. I, like most Americans, have more stuff than I need - which inspired my two-year plan. If I haven’t used something in two years, out it goes. Because of this plan, I no longer have a monthly storage bill. Because this plan works, I suggested it to friends - unsuccessfully. It seems it is just as hard to open minds as it is to open storage boxes. The one friend who said she believed in a use-it-or-lose-it plan said she called it divorce.

Experiments are continually being done to find cures for disease and solutions to world hunger; but blind wine tastings - like the one done by the University of California - is a 1st world experiment. Although the participants weren’t told what wines they were tasting, they were told how much the wines cost. It’s no surprise that they preferred the more expensive ones. What is a surprise is that two wines were the same. Maybe this proves that when tasting wine, one’s taste isn’t always in one’s mouth.

Then there’s technology. Technology has made our great country greater, but technology can go too far. A PVM sounds harmless, but it’s not. The Photo Violation Meter combines sensors, photography and wireless technology to provide five times as much parking revenue. This meter has a No Fine feature that adds time and charges it to a credit card. It has a Grace Period feature that allows drivers to pay for expired time instead of being charged with a violation. Drivers can even add time to the meter by phone. All this is good. What isn’t good is the meter eliminates any time left on it by the previous driver. This meter eliminates free rides.

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They say lightening doesn’t strike twice, but no one would have said that to Virginia Park Ranger, Roy Sullivan. Between the years 1942 and 1977 he was struck by lightening seven times - once each in his ankle, his leg, his chest and his shoulder and three times in his head. Ranger Sullivan died in 1983 - but not because he broke his own record for lightening strikes. He died from a broken heart. Perhaps the woman of his dreams didn’t think marrying the “Human Lightening Rod” would be lightening her load.

They also say haste makes waste - but not always. After experimenting with coal tar derivatives, chemist Constantin Fahlberg was in too much haste to wash his hands. Later, when he discovered there was a sweet taste on his fingers, he discovered saccharin. Fahlberg became rich. Ira Reusen, however, became irate. Because Fahlberg had used his lab, Reusen thought he deserved some of the sweet taste of success.

Part of George Frideric Handel’s success was his “Hallelujah Chorus”. Although everyone loves hearing this moving music at Christmas, the Western Publishing Company heard its opening bars throughout the year. That’s why they sued the composers of the 1923 hit, “Yes, We Have No Bananas” for plagiarism. The publishers won, which proves even unpeeled bananas can cause a fall.

Felix Mendelssohn wrote the wedding march - unintentionally. What he intentionally wrote was incidental music for his favorite play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; but when Queen Victoria’s daughter used that music sixteen years later in her wedding, it became “The Wedding March”. Mendelssohn was seventeen when he wrote “The Wedding March”. He was fifteen when he wrote his first symphony for full orchestra. When my sons were fifteen, I must have been tone-deaf. Just hearing them say “Yes, Mother” was music to my ears.

Picking the right music is what made Decca Records the second largest record label in the world. In the 30’s and 40’s they recorded Louis Armstrong and Judy Garland. In 1947 Decca released Bing Crosby’s White Christmas”, which was the best selling single until 1997. In 1954 Decca released Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock”, which was the first, international, rock and roll hit. Then came 1962. That’s when Decca turned down a new singing group because they thought guitar music was on the way out. The group was the Beatles and Decca Records has been bugged ever since.

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