"This year in Australia I faced for the first time the role of defending a major title, a Grand Slam title, and it wasn't really a fun time to be honest, " he said.

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We're holding out for the new Shadows, but yeah, it seems like a fun time to be a T-Mobile customer -- particularly if you're into the UMA stuff.

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This isn't the first time the "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" singer has been asked to compose music for the stage.

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At the time as a kid you really didn't want to be made fun of.

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They haven't got much money but they do have fun, as all the rollicking family-time action is meant to suggest.

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But the main point here seems to be to continue establishing the brand as a fun alternative to Apple (which, notably, didn't buy Super Bowl TV time).

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There aren't that many jobs out there that you just kind of sit back and have fun all the time.

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We didn't run because it was fun to get your name in the newspapers -- most of the time, it's not. (Laughter.) We didn't run so a bunch of folks on cable TV could chatter about you. (Laughter.) And we didn't run to kick our problems down the road.

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Solomon said developing the combat portion of the game was fun from the very beginning, but that, for the longest time, the resource part wasn't.

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