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1y ago

Can you hear the drums?

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Tangentially related- My name is the same as that of a 1970s song title and chorus and I worked in a place where a co-worker spoke that line to me every time he saw me every single day. I wanted to kill him by the time I left. I also hate that song. And no, I won't tell you what song.
- It's gotta be Roxanne.
  
  Damn it, you figured it out!
  
  Or Jolene!
  
  My favourite version of that song:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn0xXo1gwGY
- I feel you. I was in junior high when the matrix came out. My last name is Anderson. I fucking hated that shit. Misteeer Anderson... Inevitably they would wait for me to say My name is neo but they didn't get it.
- Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown?
- Bohemian Rhapsody /s
- pretty please :>
  
  I'll just say that it was not Mandy by Barry Manilow. Because they didn't name boys Mandy back then.
  EDIT: No wait, there's Mandy Patinkin. Anyway, my name isn't Mandy.
- Rasputin?

Similarly, I dated a woman named Annie a few years back. Everyone of my geekier friends, when I introduced her, asked, "are you ok? Are you ok Annie?"!

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/
- I like this, wholesome XKCD

What's a Manc?
- It's an American mystery comedy-drama television series about a former detective with OCD and lots of phobias
  
  No, that's "Monk"
  A manc is a place where you can go to deposit your money and get home loans and stuff.
- Manchester
- Manc is slang used to refer to someone from Manchester
  
  Manchester being a English city in the North West. The "Second City" of the UK. Birthplace of New Order, Oasis and Happy Mondays.
  I like to humbly suggest Manchester is the greatest city in the world.

Explanation?
- It's the very first line in this ABBA song.
  
  Oh, yeah 🤦...
  I'm like a neon light sometimes, take me a while to light up.
  
  I was 99% sure this was a rick roll
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  It's the very first line in this ABBA song.
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
- It's a lyric from an Abba song, "Can you hear the drums, Fernando?".
  
  Yeah, yeah, the other person explained it as well 🤦... just didn't put 2 and 2 together.

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