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All the talk about craigslist got "Weird Al" thinking
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Al says he wrote the song before the Craigslist scandal.
Weird Al actually stated that the song had been written before the Craigslist Killer had been publicly prominent; calling the timing of the release "unfortunate". Just an FYI. (-:
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