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I'm pretty sure I have enough of a sense of you, @TruthBTold, that if you could only have both of them, you'd man-up for a threesome and never let the less beefy guy know that he wasn't your favorite. Am I right?

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Is it a tattoo bias, or the beefier ass and much beefier thighs of "#1" that determined your choice?

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Bobby Vee (1943-2016)--singer, musician and early '60s teen idol-- was born Robert Velline in Fargo, ND. His career began in the midst of tragedy on "The Day the Music Died" -- February 3, 1959 --when three of the four headline acts in the lineup of the traveling Winter Dance Party (Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper) were killed in a plane crash en route to their next show in Moorhead, MN. A call went out for local acts to replace the lost musicians in the show at the Moorhead National Guard Armory. Not yet 16, Vee and his 2-week-old band volunteered, along with three or four other bands. The appearance was a success, setting in motion the events that led to Vee's career. A little over two years later -- in the summer of 1961, when he was 18 -- his song "Take Good Care of My Baby" went to No. 1 on Billboard's U.S. pop chart. Early in Vee's career, a musician calling himself "Elston Gunnn" briefly toured with Vee's band. This was Robert Zimmerman--later Bob Dylan--whose autobiography includes complimentary details about their friendship. In a concert at Midway Stadium in St. Paul, MN in 2013, Dylan played Vee's hit "Suzie Baby," introducing it with these words, "I lived here a while back, and since that time, I've played all over the world, with all kinds of people … everybody from Mick Jagger to Madonna, and everybody in there in between. I've been on the stage with those people, but the most beautiful person I've ever been on the stage with was a man who is here tonight, who used to sing a song called "Suzie Baby." I want to say that Bobby Vee is here tonight … so, we're gonna try to do this song, like I've done it with him before once or twice." A skilled rhythm guitarist and occasional songwriter with a clear, ringing singing voice, Bobby Vee had six gold singles before his hits diminished with the British Invasion. He recorded into the 2000s and maintained a steady touring schedule until 2011, when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Here, at age 18, in 1961: http://cdn.arn.com.au/media/7597620/bobby-vee.jpg http://blog.thecurrent.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files/2016/01/Bobby-Vee.jpg

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