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TIL the title of the Led Zeppelin song "D'yer Mak'er" is derived from an old joke, where two friends have the following exchange: "My wife's gone to the West Indies." "Jamaica?" (which in an English accent sounds like "Did you make her?") "No, she wanted to go".

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