'Harlem Shake' Finally Gets the Federal Investigation It Deserves
The meme that's made Bauuer's incorrectly named "Harlem Shake" the number one song in America two weeks in a row is finally getting the federal investigation it deserves. Sort of. One of the more...
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Giant, 42,000 Pound Ketchup Spill Creates Massive Traffic Jam in Nevada
Traffic piled up outside of Reno, Nevada early Thursday afternoon after a tractor trailer carrying over 42,000 pounds of ketchup crashed, spilling the condiment across a highway. The accident occurred...
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100-Foot Sinkhole Opens in Florida Bedroom, Swallowing and Killing Man
The earth opened up behind a one-story home in Florida late last night, swallowing an entire bedroom into a sinkhole—now 100 feet wide—and likely killing one. Authorities say that their equipment has...
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News Anchor Can't Get Through Segment on Swimming Cat Without Cracking Up
Even though the copy alone had already made her giggle, WDBJ7's Susan Bahorich, professional Weekend Morning Anchor that she is, believed she could make it through a fluff piece on a fat cat that has...
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Sequestration Arrives as Boehner Cuts Off Negotiations
Speaker of the House John Boehner has changed his mind. After months spent engaged in talks with President Obama in an attempt to avoid budget-slashing government sequestration—which hits today!—he...
View ArticleDon't Make That Rap Video: SUNY Edition
If we've said it once, we've said it, oh, at least a handful of times by now: don't make that rap video. "While being white certainly makes Brendan unique in his field, it is not the only thing that...
View ArticleIn First Post-Election Interview, Mitt Romney Says Presidential Race was Like...
In Mitt and Ann Romney's first interview since losing the bid for presidency in November, the former candidate likens the Presidential race to a theme park ride. The most soul-sucking, disheartening...
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The Kitty Litter in Your Cigarette Allows Tobacco Companies to Avoid $1.1...
WHAT NOW? Apparently there is cat litter in cigarettes—or rather the clay found in cat litter is used in cigarettes as filler. This allows tobacco companies to "weigh down" their cigarettes so that...
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Taco Bell's Beef Had Horse Meat In It Too [UPDATE]
For those playing the home version of Horse Meat Bingo, go ahead and daub the Taco Bell square. The latest round of tests conducted by Britain's Food Standards Agency found that ground beef used at...
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Police Chief Claims He Was Hacked After Racy Photo of Him with Gun-Toting...
The police chief of a small, scenic town in Pennsylvania has become embroiled in a local scandal following the emergence of a racy Facebook photo showing him in an apparent inebriated state getting...
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Just FYI, One of the World's Smartest Money Men Says a Crash Worse Than 2008...
Stanley Druckenmiller is a legendary hedge fund manager, former partner of George Soros, and billionaire investor. He is one of the more levelheaded and reasonable of the hedge fund gods. He's made...
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Stoker Is a Vampire Movie Without the Vampires
Somewhere in Stoker's gorgeous heap of near-absurd imagery, jaw-dropping transitions, domestic melodrama, and suggestive narrative half-threads is a metaphor for the career of its South Korean director...
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Woman Sues FedEx for Shipping Pot to Her House, Then Telling Drug Smugglers...
A Massachusetts woman who opened a FedEx package expecting to find a birthday present she purchased for her 11-year-old daughter was in for a surprise of her own when she discovered that the box...
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YouTube Manages to Revive the Harlem Shake for a Moment with This Nifty...
You know that "Harlem Shake" thing your friends on Facebook are just now discovering? Well, it was dead for a minute, but now it's back. Well, just for another minute. Just long enough for you to...
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How to Talk to a Female Journalist
Working in journalism is, like life, harder for women than it is for men, what with the patriarchy and all. This point was driven home this week by Marin Cogan's New Republic story on the various...
View ArticleMichelle Obama and Her Bangs Are Dancing Again
On Thursday, Michelle Obama celebrated the third anniversary of her "Let's Move" campaign with a dancing event in Chicago. The FLOTUS and some other famous people like Serena Williams, Bo Jackson,...
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World's Most Embarrassing Mom Makes Peruvian Government Hunt Down Her Son...
Sometimes moms do cool things like drive you to the mall and let you borrow/keep forever $20. Mostly, though, they are embarrassing. Take for instance, Garrett's mom. In November, 25-year-old Garrett...
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Cult Improv Comedy Show 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' Returning to TV After...
ABC's late-nineties, early-aughts spin-off of the British improvisational comedy show Whose Line is it Anyway? has been off the air for nearly ten years. Repeats and myriad online clips have helped...
View ArticleMasochistic Dude Asks His Wife to Slap Him Awake Every Day for Two Weeks;...
Why on earth Zach Curd asked his wife Erin to wake him up every morning for 15 straight days with a sharp cheek slap remains unclear — circadian rhythm redirection? Pure masochism? Just 'cause? — but...
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Student Debt Is a Runaway Train to Hell, as Always
Your grandparents, enterprising and hardscrabble dirt farmers that they were, could probably work their way through college with nothing more than a job as a soda jerk at the Moderne Tyme Coca-Cola...
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