Whip It, Sno-Cone style

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My little girl requested just two specific gifts for her upcoming birthday, one of which was a Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine, so I bought on today (shhh, don’t tell her.) And I love the fact that the Snoopy part of the device appears to be from his days performing with Devo, wearing the trademark hat.

(And yes, a couple of folks out in my audience are already thinking about the fact that there actually is a link between Peanuts and Devo.)

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A thing that might have been

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Charles’s Angel

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Up and down, up and down

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