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Travis The Dragon said:
It wasn't all bologna, but literally everything else was part of my childhood.
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Bologna: Raised in Bologna? That's a pretty random question. No.
Pepsi: Raised on milk, me. Don't drink fizzy pop of any kind any more.
Played in the dirt: Dug big holes, made tunnels, though I was a Tunnel Rat. So yip.
Got your butt spanked: In high School a couple of times, yeh...
Had 3 tv channels and an outside antenna: Didn't have a TV, so no.
School started with The Pledge: Nothing needed polished, not sure what this question is asking.
Had a bedtime: Who the fuck didn't or doesn't have a bedtime?!
Rode in back of pickup trucks: Would never have used the words "pickup truck", so no.
Recorded songs from the radio: Of course. Still got the tapes.
With cassette tapes: What else would I record with? My mind?
Drank from a hose: Yes, and puddles too.
Played in the creek: Don't have "creeks".
Said sir and ma'am: Certainly not, I'm not American.

I turned out just braw.
 
This is falling well short of 20 a day here, folks. That means we're looking at 2018 at the earliest (according to calculations) to get this thread to post 100,001.
 
Here's a thought:

Everyone who's even barely interested in Queen is aware that they lost their American fanbase following the negative reception of Hot Space... except that's not entirely true. Although they did stop touring there and had considerably less icon status in the US (which was also true of everywhere prior to Live AID), they were hardly "unheard of" and definitely weren't "unpopular" by that point.
  • What eventually did alienate the American fanbase was the video for "I Want to Break Free", since crossdressing was not part of the comedy repertoire across the pond at the time [...] and squicked out a lot of the band's American audience at the time, who were unaware the video was parodying the British soap opera Coronation Street.

The source is TV Tropes, which are usually quite correct, though they don't list sources and (usually) links. So it's open to a bigger research, but this might be a nudge.

Also, the Atlantic is bigger than it seems - I personally have probably never heard anything by Grand Funk Railroad bar Some Kind of Wonderful, for example. I know very little of Cheap Trick. I know only two songs by the Steve Miller Band - Joker thanks to the Fatboy Slim cover and Quicksilver Girl because of the film The Big Chill (also very esoteric movie here, by the way, IMHO). I have never heard anything by Dave Matthews Band - I don't even know what do they sound like. Don't know Weezer apart from Hash Pipe (because of American Pie 2) and so on and so on...
 
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The thing about the I Want To Break Free video parodying a soap opera is news to me. I guess only the brits got that joke. I doubt many people outside the UK are aware of that even today....

Cheap Trick in particular of those you mention, Judas, seems to be very US-centric. I don't know anyone outside the US who have much knowledge about them or hold them in very high regard. But they seem very popular in the US. I love Steve Miller Band, but my parents had his albums on cassette tape back in the day, so I basically grew up with him.....
 
CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
What's your point, Judas?
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That because of 1. stopping touring there, 2. the debacle of Hot Space 3. Freddie's increasing flamboyance (where the US are kinda prudish while the Europe is usually more afraid of violence - Priest's Killing Machine/Hell Bent for Leather being one of the only exceptions that come to mind) might have made them less popular and therefore less known in the US. The American market is sometimes really unpredictable.

So it's not inconcievable that many people born and raised in the US might not know as much about Queen or even know they are that big here in Europe and Russia (and South Africa, though that's another story :D )

All just speculations, though.
 
With Anish Giri's performance in the Candidates tournament earlier this year and what he's currently doing in the London Chess Classic, if he were a knight he would go by the name of Sir Drawalot.
 
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