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    The Story of
    "Donkey Bop"

    Once upon a time, and not too terribly long ago either, there was a bar in Fresno where a regular customer was a middle-aged Mexican gentleman named Jose.

    One day Jose asked the bartender, “Do you know the name of that beautiful song I always hear playing on the juke box here called Donkey Bop?”

    “Donkey Bop?” said the bartender. “Never heard of it.”

    “I hear it playing all the time when I’m in here," Jose told him. "It is beautiful."

    Jose continued to pester the bartender about the tune, but with no results. The bartender said he’d ask the person who serviced the juke box the next time he came in if he had a song called Donkey Bop. No such tune, was the report back.

    Finally, one day Jose was in the bar when the song started playing.

    “This is it! This is it!” he told the bartender excitedly as he rushing over to the juke box.

    When the song ended Jose watched the route the disc took as it was extracted by the mechanical arm and then placed back in its slot. He saw the number where the disc had been placed was E11. He flipped through the menu of songs, and when he did he saw the name of the tune he knew as Donkey Bop was in fact...

    “Don’t Give Up!”