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DURING the Depression, a comedian named Joe Penner slayed audiences with a routine he called "Wanna buy a duck?" Decades later, as tough times return, a marketer is playing up a duck whose pitch is "Wanna buy some insurance?" The duck is the spokescreature for Aflac, formally the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus.
- A good pickup line if you see a woman struggling with a bunch of grocery bags is "Wanna fuck?" - NOTES FROM THE FIELD: "Cute little fart bakery you got there," is not a successful pickup line.
Perhaps the most poignant track, however, is Wanna Be Cool, where Chance is the singing, rapping, I-can-do-it-all front man while he spells out his reluctance to be held up as just that, singing: "I don't want to be cool, I just want to be me" over smooth, brazenly joyful Jam and Lewis 80s-style production.
He then tells her he think she's "wonderful" "flawless" and "sexy", but notes she doesn't seem to realize how valuable she is ("wanna be someone else").
The titles alone reek of 80s goodness: Drive, What Love Is, Wanna Have Fun - just watch the Cars, Tina Turner/Foreigner and Cyndi Lauper sit up and beg.
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The approach practiced by boys in searsh of new partners was "Wanna dance?" by Americans.
So if I'm gonna play crazy, I'm wanna play proper crazy".
More typical are "Wanna Take You Home" and "Sunset Lovin,' " which never get sweaty, despite plenty of attempts at friction.
Right now it's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'".
The d.j. was playing "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," the unconventional first song from "Thriller".
My favourite Prince song is I Wanna Be Your Lover.
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