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You re back in middle school. You have braces, uncomfortably long limbs, are either extremely short or tall and don t even know how much worse it s going to get in high school. However, you are still naive enough to get psyched about school dances.

Here are the five definitive songs to play while slow dancing with a boy much shorter than us. What other songs make for good stiff-armed slow dancing?

Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin

Crazy for You, Madonna

One of our numerous resolutions for the new year is to be more optimistic, so when we got a copy of this hysterical book called Secrets of the Superoptimist, we knew that we were on the right track.

(Thanks for the hint, God!) Immediately we were inspired to create a list of all the upbeat songs we could think of as a preventive measure just in case we start to feel that old negativity creeping back up on us (like, say, in the wake of our inevitable New Year s Day hangover). We invite you to contribute your warm fuzzy tunes for our 2007 Pursuit of Happiness initiative.

This Is the One, The Stone Roses

Dancing in the Street, Martha Reeves

The holidays mean a profusion of cheesy sweaters, iced sugar cookies, It s a Wonderful Life played in a constant loop on every major television network, and that time-honored tradition, the Holiday Party. For good or for bad, recent years have seen a glut of karaoke-themed holiday fetes and chances are that if you go to even a fraction of the shindigs you re invited to, at least a couple will feature friends, family, co-workers and total strangers singing Top Forty hits in various stages of inebriation. There s a fine art to selecting the song that best showcases your vocal talent (or disguising your dearth of said talent).

Here s our definitive list of the all-time best karaoke songs. Share your horror and/or glory stories and remember to sing from the diaphragm.

Livin on a Prayer, Bon Jovi

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