No-way-ember

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Reddit for Avengers 4 has a link to TVTropes (Lotus Eater Machine). Spirals, I tell ya! J

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LotusEaterMachine



Keikaku – and it’s futility :D



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Wil Wheaton was in The Last Starfighter.



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DhanYoutubus



Football and sleight of hand



Found the ‘inspiration’ for the intro of Rap God (6 minutes [X2], Slim Shady, you’re on) – Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh – The Show





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Midori Ito lit the Olympic flame at Nagano 1998, where Shiva Keshavan first competed at the Olympic level. Never Give In, Sanawar!



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An ingenuous ingenious – drawing inspiration from Eminem’s trans-cend-a-lis-tic ten-den-cies [Rolling Stone; https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eminem-on-the-road-back-from-hell-249093/ ]



Could be disingenuous if required for my rhyme scheme ;)



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The Aldo Leopold Legacy Trail System has 42 state trails – Douglas Adams’ Universal Answer shows up yet again.



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The Himalayas figure in Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.





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Spirals doth continueth; Gravity’s Rainbow inspired Whip It by Devo, one of the topics of satire in Family Guy (it also reminds me of the ‘Cool Whip’ eccentricity of Stewie).



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Bailiwick