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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 16:58:59 JST Aral Balkan

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All hail Charles the Turd!
#uk #monarchy

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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 17:00:43 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Rimi B. Chatterjee
  HT @rimibchatterjee ;)
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 17:09:00 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Brad Rubenstein “:verified:”
  @BradRubenstein Apparently not about Charlie boy but still, great song :)
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Girl_(Hall_%26_Oates_song)
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  1. Rich Girl (Hall & Oates song)
    
    "Rich Girl" is a song by Daryl Hall & John Oates. It debuted on the Billboard Top 40 on February 5, 1977, at number 38 and on March 26, 1977, it became their first of six number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. The single originally appeared on the 1976 album Bigger Than Both of Us. At the end of 1977, Billboard ranked it as the 23rd biggest hit of the year. Content The song's lyrics are about a spoiled girl who can rely on her parents' money to do whatever she wants. The song was rumored to be about the then-scandalous newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. In fact, the title character in the song is based on a spoiled heir to a fast-food chain who was an ex-boyfriend of Daryl Hall's girlfriend, Sara Allen. "But you can't write, 'You're a rich boy' in a song, so I changed it to a girl," Hall told Rolling Stone.Hall elaborated on the song in an interview with American Songwriter: "Rich Girl" was written about an old boyfriend of Sara [Allen]'s from college that she was still friends with at the time. His name is Victor Walker. He...
- Brad Rubenstein “:verified:” (bradrubenstein@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 17:09:01 JST Brad Rubenstein “:verified:”
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  Set to the tune of You're a Rich Girl (which was also written about Charles).
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJsloJmMbis
  @aral
  
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