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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.
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Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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