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Gangnam Style...well this should've been posted below. A decade of doing this and still can't figure it out -- nm* - JD Dec 12, 15:57 2
- Doesn't make the Billboard chart. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:59 1
  - this makes no sense because for a year Gangnam style was the most viewed video on youtube -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 12, 21:21
I see #slatepitches are back -- (link) - Reagen Dec 12, 15:44
While we are doing trivia: name the top 15 charting singles of the decade (according to Billboard). - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:40 52
- Throwing you guys a fish: two of them are Ed Sheeran songs. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:58 2
  - It's a funny test: can you name two Ed Sheeran songs? I can do one: Photograph. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:59
  - I win again! -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:58
- Call Me Maybe -- nm - JD Dec 12, 15:55 1
  - Finally! #13. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:56
- this thread is just more evidence half of you have me killfiled. -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 15:54 6
  - All the song names run together! -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:58
  - Maybe *checks notes* no one likes Adele? nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:56 4
    - *glove slap* Pistols at dawn! -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:58
    - There are three songs from 2011 which I believe was 35 years ago so that could also be why. -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 15:58
    - Maybe I don't wanna dance to your sadistic quizmaster tunes, you ever think of that? -- nm - Reagen Dec 12, 15:58 1
      - Resistance is futile my puppets. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:58
- Pink. Me & Bobby Mcgee -- (link) - Peglegpete Dec 12, 15:53 [youtube] 1
  - No and none of them relate to Louise Brooks' negligee either. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:54
- miley wrecking balls -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 12, 15:51 1
  - #99. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:52
- Lady gaga songs. -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:50 1
  - Gaga's highest is Bad Romance at #84. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:52
- game of thrones main theme -- nm* - Peglegpete Dec 12, 15:50
- that song by Swift where she dances and i like it -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:46 1
  - heh, Max got it below for me :) -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:46
- Shake It Off -- nm - Max Dec 12, 15:46 9
  - Shockingly only #34. - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:47 8
    - Bad Love? -- nm - Max Dec 12, 15:47
    - I will guess that she had a later one in the top 15, but darned if I know which one. -- nm - Max Dec 12, 15:47 6
      - She did not, Blank Space was #65 and that's it. (1989 was the #2 selling album though) -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 15:49 3
        
        What's #1? -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:49 2
        
        21 by Adele -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 15:50 1
        
        (which makes one of the songs obvious) -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 15:51
      - Shake It Off is her highest charting single of the decade. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:48 1
        
        This board has been a harsh reality check for Taylor Swift. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:49
- That idiotic song by Robin Thicke: Blurred Lines. Aaaaaannnnnnddd, now I've got an awful earworm. -- nm* - ReluctantCynic Dec 12, 15:45 1
  - Ding! #14. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:53
- One Dance -- nm - Dano Dec 12, 15:44 1
  - #35. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:45
- Uptown Funk -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 15:43 4
  - TIMMAY! #1 with a bullet! nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:44 1
    - as a chart nerd I should not have participated, but hey. -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 15:44
  - and its somehow whiter clone, Can't Stop the Feeling. -- nm* - David Dec 12, 15:43 1
    - #82. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:44
- some tripe by Ed Sheeran -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:42 3
  - Greta Thunberg would have the stones to actually release a song with this title. -- nm - Max Dec 12, 15:44
  - You gotta be a lot more specific. :P nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:43 1
    - no -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:47
- Hello -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 12, 15:41 1
  - Surprisingly only #52. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:42
- Old Town Road -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 12, 15:41 1
  - #7. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:42
- Closer! -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:40 3
  - #4 (Assuming you mean Chainsmokers) nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:41 2
    - I *always* mean Chainsmokers! - David Dec 12, 15:42 1
      - :P nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:43
I just an e-mail from Coca-Cola inviting me to join their Insiders Club. What's that? Oh, it's a subscription box service. -- nm - Mop Dec 12, 15:39 5
- Coke of the Month Club. Guessing which one is cocaine is the fun part -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:42
- *this month* "Oh, it's a Coke!" *next month* "What could it.. oh, Coke!" *following month* "Hey, it's a Coke!" *the next month* "Wow..." -- nm - Reagen Dec 12, 15:41 3
  - July's flavor is Cinnamon Coke because f--- you, that's why! -- nm - Mop Dec 12, 15:44 2
    - Nah, if they really hate you they’ll give you Beverly. -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 12, 15:48 1
      - what the fuck is wrong with Italian taste buds? -- nm - Reagen Dec 12, 15:51
UK - Blyth Valley flips to Conservative -- (link) - budice Dec 12, 15:34 2
- It's bad across the board. That's fine. Some people need to learn the hard way. 5 years of BoJo will learn 'em! -- nm - Mop Dec 12, 15:40
- +19% LAB win in 2017 -- nm* - budice Dec 12, 15:35
You know, that whole Cascadia Independence Movement is making more and more sense. - ReluctantCynic Dec 12, 15:34 2
- just as long as you give eastern half of WA and OR to Idaho -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 12, 21:20
- My son got himself a Cascadia flag. -- nm - Mop Dec 12, 15:40
Wiggy! You and I keyed on the cat news, and everyone else went with the boring delivery item. Paw Five! -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:33 9
- Oh, yikes, wiggie. So, you can really relate right now. - David Dec 12, 15:40 1
  - Happily enough, we didn't even realize he was gone until Mr. Wigs was turning off the porch light. - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:51
- I'm pretty sure about 80% of my social media consumption is now animals. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:36 6
  - Same here. And half of that is cat channels on TikTok and the Giant Military Cats feed on Twitter. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Dec 12, 15:39
  - I post minimum of three cat vids or memes a day on FB. It's an addiction -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:37 4
    - My cousin has the same thing but with *chickens* nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:41 3
      - Your cousin obviously gives a cluck -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:42 2
        
        I expect this kind of pun from El Rojo Pollo Loco. :P nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:46 1
        
        Just doing what I do -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:50
I am so happy politics doesn't come into the top searches. There is more to life people! -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:32
Listen, not going to say it’s a must play game. Currently they broke legendaries during the patch this past week. But Fallout76 is free on XB1. -- nm - Qale Dec 12, 15:29
A friend just posted her 'favorite Christmas song' on FB. Fortunately I don't have speakers connected to the PC ;) -- nm - Meg Dec 12, 15:25
Let's do some quizzes. No cheating if you already looked! What was the #1 Google Trend (i.e. search) in the US for 2019? -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:17 72
- I was going to say "Disney plus" (or "Disney+"), but now I'm struggling with Tim's hint. (more spoilers too I guess) -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Dec 12, 15:37 4
  - You clearly cheated. Go away. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:38 3
    - I didn't even come up with the search term! - ReluctantCynic Dec 12, 15:40 2
      - Mmmhmm. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:41 1
        
        Only because *everyone* was talking about Disney+. Everyone. I figure when my Mom starts asking me about it, it's gotta be big. - ReluctantCynic Dec 12, 15:42
- Y'all are flailing. Here's the top 10: - David Dec 12, 15:36 7
  - Oh ... wait ... -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 12, 15:41 2
    - Be less obvious next time. Nobody's even close, and you suddenly know the top two. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:42 1
      - Even a blind pig can find an acorn (or two) once in a while. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 12, 15:46
  - We try not to think of Jussie Smollett. The people who got him on the list were the scardie cat conservative media types that loved him. -- nm - Qale Dec 12, 15:38
  - Jussie Smollett seems like about 10 years ago. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 12, 15:37 1
    - *rose-84-years.gif* -- nm - Reagen Dec 12, 15:38
  - I got two. I win! suck it losers!! -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:37
- Disney's Star Wars land -- nm - Max Dec 12, 15:35
- billie eilish -- nm - Max Dec 12, 15:34 1
  - #3 in musicians -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:35
- Epstein was murdered! -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:33 1
  - by Horshack! -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 12, 15:34
- boris johnson -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 12, 15:32
- 1969 moon landing -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 12, 15:31
- Elizabeth Warren. Joe Biden -- nm - spamlet Dec 12, 15:30 1
  - None of these -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:31
- Elon Musk -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:30
- build the wall? -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:30
- Tesla Truck -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:29
- Hint: five people, one news item, and two technology-ish things. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:29 6
  - I caved and looked, nobody here will get most of the names. (big spoiler hint inside) - Tim Dec 12, 15:32
  - Breny Kavanaugh -- nm - Amoxy Dec 12, 15:30
  - Greta Thunberg -- nm - Roger More Dec 12, 15:29 3
    - #7 person globally but not in the US -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:31
    - Lizzo -- nm - Roger More Dec 12, 15:30 1
      - #7 in musicians and bands -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:31
- Popeye’s chicken sandwich -- nm - Roger More Dec 12, 15:29
- game of thrones -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:28 1
  - #8 -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:28
- spiderman -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:27
- Frozen 2 -- nm - Roger More Dec 12, 15:25 1
  - Captain Marvel -- nm - Roger More Dec 12, 15:27
- Frozen 2 -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:25 1
  - No more movies in the top 10 (but one tv show) -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:27
- taylor swift -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 12, 15:25 1
  - She didn't finish in the top 10 in anything. She might be at 14:59. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:28
- 2020 -- nm - Qale Dec 12, 15:24
- Brexit -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 12, 15:24 1
  - No but it finished #10 in the category of "What is..." - David Dec 12, 15:25
- Old Town Road -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 15:24 1
  - No, but it was the #1 song search. So, you're winning this thread. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:24
- Donald Trump -- nm - spamlet Dec 12, 15:23 3
  - Didn't finish in the top 10 in people, news, or overall searches. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:24 2
    - Huh, that really shocks me. - spamlet Dec 12, 15:24 1
      - What I eventually realized about this is...who has to search for Trump news? It's *everywhere*. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:39
- Peloton Girl -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:22 1
  - No. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:23
- Masked Singer -- nm - Max Dec 12, 15:22
- Endgame -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:21 1
  - #7 -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:22
- Star Wars Rise of Skywalker -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:20 4
  - Neither of you are right, but this is the closest answer yet to something that actually finished in the top ten. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:21 3
    - Baby Yoda. -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 15:22 1
      - No, but it was the most searched for baby name, beating the royal baby and Baby Shark. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:22
    - Mandelorian finished in top 10 -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:22
- blond girl yelling at white cat -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:20
- Climate Change -- nm - Amoxy Dec 12, 15:19 1
  - Not in the top 10. It's mainly people and pop culture stuff. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:19
- impeachment? -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:18 7
  - Didn't even make the top 10. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:19 6
    - lol yep, we are so f'ed -- nm - Jovian Dec 12, 15:22 5
      - You gonna be like this for the whole next year? -- nm - Reagen Dec 12, 15:30 3
        
        Next 5 years! -- nm - Bacon Dec 12, 15:35
        
        No. Im done. Writing is already on the wall. - Jovian Dec 12, 15:32 1
        
        I think you are freaking yourself out into a heart attack - Reagen Dec 12, 15:34
      - It just happened. These searches are stuff that people found interesting all year. -- nm - David Dec 12, 15:23
small uninhabited Greek island is a treasure trove of ancient Minoan artifacts & purple dye making -- (link) - Peglegpete Dec 12, 15:17
UK Election - Blyth Valley was +19% LAB in 2017 Election. Considered close enough for a recount tonight, in 2019. -- nm* - budice Dec 12, 15:17 2
- Recount made official. Been Labour since its inception in 1950. -- nm* - budice Dec 12, 15:21 1
  - Goes Conservative by 700 votes -- nm* - budice Dec 12, 15:32
Brockmire's upcoming fourth season will be its last -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 15:17

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