So when Brooks announced his comeback, many people resented the reminder: spitting bile on Twitter, Facebook and beneath the many articles reporting it, questioning how people here could still like music so backwards and rural.
They are making a comeback because people cared, so much so that the nene was designated Hawaii's official state bird.
Lance Armstrong has a favorite comeback to people who wonder how he can climb the Alps and the Pyrenees so rapidly in the Tour de France without looking strained.
When Frank Bruno, that great and much-loved national hero, said recently that he wanted to stage a boxing comeback, many people (including his own brave and loving daughters) chalked it up to a difficult phase in his bipolar disorder.
The more informal economics of Keynes has made a big comeback because people realize that even though it is kind of loose and it doesn't cross all the "t"s and dot all the "i s, it seems to have more of a grasp of what is going on in the economy.
Upon hearing of Ghomeshi's attempted comeback, many people expressed outrage. .
If you ever need a snappy comeback when people are talking smack about the Ute football team you can mention how many National Championships the gymnastic team has won.
And his coach is complaining that so much has been made of these improbable comebacks that people are forgetting about the defense.
