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How dare you come for Raffi like that. He's a legend!

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...hot take...raffi is baby yanni...

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😂 Fair but Down by the Bay and Baby Beluga go HARD.

He's probably worth you doing a piece on.

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...i may need to dive deep on him you are correct...i may also need to tour with this band https://www.iheart.com/content/2016-10-20-reminder-theres-a-finnish-heavy-metal-dinosaur-kids-band/...

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I sense a really evocative exploration of children's music coming soon. You are the right man for the job.

That band looks amazing.

"The group sings about warriors, dragons, food, funny animals and other things of interest to 2 to 7 year olds."

Who wouldn't be interested in these things?

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...can we start giving kids fierce tunes instead of ukelele jamz...no prob with ukeleles i just think they need to be electric, broken, and fed into a wood chipper to get the right tone...

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This one was a tornado of ideas for a topic that is barely discussed. Endless metaphors and spins. Felt like script of upcoming YouTube video that can go viral.

I also do think babies go beyond being teachers - babies also learn super fast. Forget learn...forget learn continuously adopting and reinventing themselves.

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...it's true babies are like floppy fungal david bowies...thanks for the read shorjoe!...

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Holy adventure. This one flipped me around, hung me upside down, laughing my ass off in total agreeance. Coincidentally my sister was sitting next to me right before I opened this and said, "you should have a baby" and I responded "babies are gross." This was hilarious, sort of disturbing, and an all around trip. For a while it felt like I was reading a manuscript of my internal monologue every time someone tells me I need to bring new life into this world. And as always, I can't get enough of meditative reflections. Keep it comin

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...they looks like greasy space beavers...

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I like babies from afar... They're too much up close so I was excited at first because I thought this was an excuse to shit in babies :). But yeah, i do learn from babies too... How they forgive and forget.

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...we can always shit in and on babies as needed Jesugbemi...god knows they will do it to us first...

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Ok, funny as hell, as always, but this was a masterful romp that nearly turned into a micro-meditation sesshin. Likely you'll bristle at me trying to draw too much meaning from the post, but the effect of putting my attention on babyhood and being drawn into the mindstate of presence that babies inhabit was delightful. Your quotes are always incredible, "“A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” -Ronald Knox- Although I almost had to flee when the image of Raffi showed up. We practically had to engage a fumigated cleanse to get rid of the Raffi vibes that permeated everything by the time my kids were out of that phase.

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...i got skunked twice this week in my backyard...not sure if that will attract or repel raffi but it was worth a shot...but pretty sure that skunk ass hiss is the equivalent of saging a house but for ridding it of raffi...

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but twice?

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...yeah you have to deploy raffi level repetitions to fully cleanse...

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...i tried my hardest to not give in to these dang babies but the youth always have some sort of new charm that is inescapable...i call it vomit chic...

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