Simpson, Lachey Engaged

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Twenty-one-year-old singer Jessica Simpson and twenty-eight-year-old Nick Lachey -- of 98 Degrees -- are engaged to be married. Lachey popped the question on a yacht off the coast of Hawaii on February 10th.

The couple briefly split last year, but reconciled after September 11th. "I knew that I never watned to be away from Nick for the rest of my life," Simpson said. "I have dreamt of this moment my entire life and now my prince charming has come."

The couple has not yet made specific wedding plans.

Meanwhile, according to a post on their Web site, Lachey's 98 Degrees are on an "extended break," with "no immediate plans to tour or record." The group's fan club is also not accepting new members, and instead will fulfill obligations to existing members and then "bring activities to a close."

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Song Stories

“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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