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87. Boyz II Men - I was in choir in high school when they were big

Mon Nov 17, 2014, 02:12 AM

Nov 2014

At every big multi-school event that we went to, there were roaming packs of barbershop quartets (yes, choir nerds are even less cool than band nerds) singing that "It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday" song to impress girls. Fuck them.

This was pretty rad though:

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