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This afternoon my labmates asked me to settle an argument. They handed me some headphones and asked me who was singing. I put them on and heard what sounded like Aerosmith doing Dream On. I listened for a bit to make sure it really was Aerosmith, then ventured "umm...Steve Tyler?"

"How did you know that?" asked the woman who just lost the bet. "It doesn't sound anything like him!"

"Are you kidding? It's one of the most popular rock songs in history. I thought everyone knew that was Aerosmith."

"I didn't recognize it at all. You mean you've really heard it before?"

"Only about 1000 times." All before you were born!

Kids nowadays, with their hip hop and their iPods, I tell ya...

Someone on Drexel's ethernet has an iTunes share called (roughly) "Harps are for angels, God plays guitar"…and it's full of nothing but Joe Satriani tunes.

"That's it Gromit… cheeeeese… We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!"

I had to go to the card store this morning. The woman in front of me in line was buying some of those mylar Happy Birthday balloons. It was cold this morning, so the cashier warned the woman not to worry if the balloons seemed to deflate in her car, and that they'd be fine once they warmed back up.

The woman seemed quite concerned by this, and finally said, "you know, I've got to visit a few more stores in this shopping center. Could I just pick them up on my way out, so they don't have to spend as much time in the car?"

Determined not to roll over and give in to the heavily favored Quakers, the Tigers forced a fumble on Penn's first possession of the second half.

And here's how Penn's paper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, saw the same play:

Matthews moved the ball to the Princeton 42-yard line before the momentum of the game changed again.

McDermott threw what appeared to be a forward pass to Matthews, who dropped it. But the officials ruled it as a lateral, and Peter Kelly fell on it for the Tigers.

"I thought that was a huge call," Bagnoli said. "We had just had two or three first downs, the ball was right at midfield, we were starting to get a little bit of momentum...I didn't think it was close."

So who's right? The Penn paper, of course. The play was a screen pass to the running back. The ball was thrown a little behind him and he couldn't catch it. There was no one within 10 yards of Matthews when he dropped it.

What curse? Red Sox fans really believe this will be the year they finally win it all.