Salute Your Shorts: A Diodeon Analysis

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When I was much younger, I used to watch Nickelodeon all day. It was such an awesome channel; it provided anything a kid could want. I enjoyed coming home from elementary school Church street Elementary to be specific and spending my afternoon with "Doug" "Rugrats" and "Ren & Stimpy". Now that the years have gone by I am quite sad to see that Nickelodeon is a mere shell of its former self. Occasionally, I'll take a look at the channel, I wonder what today's kids must think of the mindless garbage that there force- fed by the once- great Nickelodeon. Pete and Pete are nowhere to be seen and it don't appear that they've played an episode of "Salute Your Shorts" in well over a decade. One day not long ago I thought that all my prayers had been

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