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Solving Steps
1 [first year it made sense to make new year's glasses 🤓🎉] is replaced by '2000'
2 ["___ have I ever" (teen basement game)] is replaced by 'never'
3 [Goliath challenger] is replaced by 'David'
4 [⏱️ "never too" ➡️ ___ ⬅️ "Night with David Letterman" 🎤] is replaced by 'late'
5 [word after first ⛴️ or stale ♟️] is replaced by 'mate'
6 [material for an airplane that flew 290 feet in 2022 ✈️] is replaced by 'paper'
7 [rule-following dork 🔳] is replaced by 'square'
8 [paper covered with little squares 📈] is replaced by 'graph'
9 [something detected by a polygraph, allegedly] is replaced by 'lie'
10 [city with many gondoliers 🇮🇹] is replaced by 'Venice'
11 [flesh collateral unit in "The Merchant of Venice" 💷] is replaced by 'pound'
12 [one is 2000 pounds] is replaced by 'ton'
13 [word after Rorschach or Turing 🤖] is replaced by 'test'
14 [Diet ___ (aka "fridge cigarette")] is replaced by 'Coke'
15 [test that might involve Coke, Pepsi, and a blindfold] is replaced by 'taste'
16 [to have a taste of your own is generally undesirable 💊] is replaced by 'Medicine'
2 ["___ have I ever" (teen basement game)] is replaced by 'never'
3 [Goliath challenger] is replaced by 'David'
4 [⏱️ "never too" ➡️ ___ ⬅️ "Night with David Letterman" 🎤] is replaced by 'late'
5 [word after first ⛴️ or stale ♟️] is replaced by 'mate'
6 [material for an airplane that flew 290 feet in 2022 ✈️] is replaced by 'paper'
7 [rule-following dork 🔳] is replaced by 'square'
8 [paper covered with little squares 📈] is replaced by 'graph'
9 [something detected by a polygraph, allegedly] is replaced by 'lie'
10 [city with many gondoliers 🇮🇹] is replaced by 'Venice'
11 [flesh collateral unit in "The Merchant of Venice" 💷] is replaced by 'pound'
12 [one is 2000 pounds] is replaced by 'ton'
13 [word after Rorschach or Turing 🤖] is replaced by 'test'
14 [Diet ___ (aka "fridge cigarette")] is replaced by 'Coke'
15 [test that might involve Coke, Pepsi, and a blindfold] is replaced by 'taste'
16 [to have a taste of your own is generally undesirable 💊] is replaced by 'Medicine'
The Answer
the Pemberton Medicine Company is incorporated in Atlanta
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