What Students Are Good For

Among other things, pointing me to silly bits of pop-culture ephemera that I haven't noticed before. Such as, for example, The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny:

this is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

good guys, bad guys, and explosions as far as the eye can see

and only one will survive, I wonder who it will be

this is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

(This is probably old news to those readers who spend more time watching silly Flash music videos than I do, but I only found out about it today, when some students put it on at the summer seminar series talks...)

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