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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Jib-Jab's Year in Review 2007

I caught this on "The Tonight Show" last night.  Not as funny as usual, but it's amazing how well "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" fits into the flow of the "We Didn't Start the Fire" melody:

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