We mooned the moon and laughed ourselves hoarse, and I'm so incredibly grateful for every silly second.

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"Netscape mooned the giant, " says one Google exec, noting Google welcomes Microsoft ads on its site.

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The story goes that Civic Virtue's original home beginning in 1922 was fronting City Hall in Manhattan until then-Mayor Fiorello La Guardia got sick of being mooned every day.

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Once passengers are on board, the long-haul destination produces an instant camaraderie, and people begin to gather in the lounge car in an interesting cross-section that ranges from a beaming American family, heading for a wet week of ancestor-hunting, to a half-mooned lawyer type with a share in a Highland estate.

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