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Interesting tidbit: The Dead South are actually Canadians from Saskatchewan. Well, they are from Regina, which might qualify as South Saskatchewan.

A truly unique sound... the "Sleepytime Gorilla Museum"

Of course, the Brecht/Weill song most famous in rock music is the "Alabama Song", here in a live version by David Bowie.

Savoy Brown "Hellbound Train" Live

The Tragically Hip in their final concert with "New Orleans Is Sinking". Frontman Gord Downie already visibly stricken with cancer.

If you are more on the acoustic side, the combination guitar/cello has a lot to offer. Here are Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses, 50 ft Wave; still going strong at 57) and Scotsman Pete Harvey.

You severely underestimate Josh's football IQ.

I can understand the Josh/Luka comparisons. The similarities go beyond their importance for the team. Most notably: Both seem to try to grow some facial hair; in neither case it looks convincing.

For me, Three Dog Night were always too much pop and not enough rock. Thus, I started to think of more challenging song titles than "Never Been To Spain", such as "Never Been To Uruguay" or "Never Been To Uzbekistan". However, upon listening to the song I liked the lyrics and the music. Well done!!

As a born German, I have "adopted" Edmonton as my second-favorite NHL team (behind the Sabres, of course) because of Draisaitl, the first true German hockey star. GO, Leon and the Oilers!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soviet Union hockey of the 1970/1980s

There is some young talent on the team. A couple of weeks ago they finished the Hockey World Championship (of course without players still running in the playoffs), and several young Sabres did very well. Dylan Cozens was on the all-star team (as the only North American), JJ Peterka was the best German player, and Rasmus Dahlin played a large role in Sweden getting the bronze medal.

My current favorites: lackadaisical and just for the sound: mukluk

For a long time, I would not have thought that people in reality communicated this way, but I have to admit that more recently I had to listen to a few people where every third word was the F word. For the first minute I was listening it piqued my interest, but then I noticed that besides the F word most of them had nothing to contribute to a meaningful discussion.

While there does not appear to be a consensus, most pronunciations have the "y" present after the n, but only fleetingly, not an "ee" turned into a syllable of its own. The fleeting nature of the sound is often indicated by the transcript "n(y)o-".

"X" were always known as LA punk band, but "The Have Nots" is a straight forward rocker with witty lyrics. And here is one of the writers of the song, John Doe, at age 64.

The word "gnocchi" is Italian. In Italian the correct pronunciation would be 3). The "g" is silent.

Spelled correctly, it would be even more difficult: it is "gnocchi".

I can already imagine it. Instead of presenting a traditional half-time show, the Indian hosts decide to showcase a cricket test, lasting hours before the second half of the Superbowl starts.

Most predictions have the global population still increasing from the current 8 billion to about 10 billion in 2080, before growth levels off. BTW, I am still puzzled how we got to the topic of population growth in a discussion of Waddle. Is he responsible for it?

Going solely by seat revenue, the NFL has missed their opportunity. In 1950, Maracana stadium in Rio had a capacity of 200,000 - 210,000 attendees (now it is a measly 73,000). According to Wikipedia, the current stadia with the largest capacity are Narendra Modi Stadium in India (135,000; used for cricket) and ... ... Rungrado 1st of May Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea (114,000; mainly used for soccer). A Superbowl in North Korea, the ultimate irony.

The fact alone that the house was previously owned by a NFL player will add to its value.

I have told the story before. I came from Germany to the US in September 1990 as a postdoc at the University of Rochester (originally for a year or two, but in the end the move to the US turned out to be permanent). In the lab where I worked, every Monday our research came to a standstill, as everybody (except for me, but including the boss) was discussing the Bills. I started watching them on TV, but initially "American" football did not make much sense to me. Eventually, the sport and the Bills in particular grew on me, and I became a fan. 20 years ago we moved to West Texas. There might not be many Bills fans here, but since Josh turned out to be such a smashing success there is a lot of respect in "Jerryland". And my son is a big Bills fan.

If that were true, then why do they need Aaron and his enormous price tag? How many extra wins is he good for?

The only meatballs I like are those I make myself. About 50% of the weight is ground beef. In addition, there are baguette pieces (small, but not crumbs), tomatoes, peppers, onions (all in small pieces) and eggs, plus salt and pepper, until I get the right consistence to form patties. Those are about 1 inch thick.