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Staph

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3. In my university days,

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2021, 05:35 PM

Feb 2021

West Virginia University showed a somewhat new film in the student union every Wednesday evening, preceded by a cartoon or other short film.

The semester that they decided to precede the film with episodes of Flash Gordon, they had to move the films from the student union's theater to the ballroom. Hundreds of students would come to the show to watch Flash Gordon and then leave when the movie started!

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