Our 2005 Week continues here with our edit staff’s picks for the 100 best songs from an absolutely huge-feeling and huge-sounding year in popular music. (See our full year-end Billboard Hot 100 ...

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Evangeline: Sod my manners you old trout. This is the most fun I've had in weeks. Evangeline: Poor him... and poor them. Mrs. Blatherwick: Poor them, my Aunt Fanny. They're the worstest, nastiest, ...