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Paris Hilton’s New Song ‘Drunk Text’ Is Even Worse Than You’d Expect
Remember, like five years ago, when everything Paris Hilton did was big news? That was weird, right?
Hilton’s latest song ‘Drunk Text,’ dropped yesterday without any of the fanfare of her previous slickly produced but thinly executed classics.
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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Walk and Text
Texting and walking is a pretty bad idea, particularly when you’re walking down steps. Which is something the young lady in the background of this live CBC report is bound to remember the next time she tries to look at her phone while navigating a short flight of concrete stairs.
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Woman Tries to Hide From News Camera, Fails Spectacularly
If you happen to be a newscaster who isn’t so sure of the material you’re supposed to read, one way of limiting mistakes is concentrating very hard on the Teleprompter. Kara Manelli of WUFT in Gainesville, Florida displays this technique to a T as she finishes a story about a student housing lottery. She’s concentrating so hard, she doesn’t notice the woman behind her awkwardly trying to hide from the camera.
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Does This Chicken McNugget Look Like George Washington?
The last time people were comparing the way something looks to George Washington, that something was disgraced swindler Bernie Madoff. And, really, the father our country deserves a much better doppelganger.
Cue Chicken McNugget George Washington, who a woman in Sioux City, Iowa bought at a McDonald’s three years ago.
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‘Hunger Games’ to Pull a Justin Bieber and Tour Malls
Back in the the ’80s, all sorts of relevant pop cultural stuff would take place in malls. Like Tiffany, who promoted her (only) number one album back on 1987 by touring malls throughout North America.
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Would You Fly to Space If You Had the Chance? — Survey of the Day
Last month Virgin Galactic announced it would begin offering commercial space flights later this year.
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‘Undercover Boss’ Shuts Down His Own Restaurant
Rick Silva, the head of Checkers and Rally’s drive-in restaurants was featured on the latest episode of ‘Undercover Boss.’ Like the other sneaky bosses before him, the CEO donned a disguise and pretended he was just a lowly employee, in this case at a Checkers’ franchise in Homestead, Florida. And it was also the first case of a boss breaking his cover and shutting down the workplace on the spot.
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Was Conan O’Brien on ‘How I Met Your Mother’?
Conan O’Brien is pretty hard to miss, due to his 6’4 frame and bright orange pompadour. So if you happened to be watching ‘How I Met Your Mother’ last night and thought you spotted the late-night host for a brief moment in the background of the gang’s favorite bar, you certainly weren’t imagining things.
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Watch Toronto’s Batman Freak Out Pedestrians
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Should Healthcare Plans Be Required to Cover Costs of Birth Control? — Survey of the Day
Last week, President Obama issued a directive which would require all health insurance plans to cover the cost of birth control.
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Can Online Relationships Be Considered Cheating? — Survey of the Day
A good amount of time and energy on the internet is spent by folks trying to make some sort of romantic connection.
Many of these relationship never make it offline, but they can be intense, nonetheless.
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‘Simpsons’ Fans Set Guinness World Record for Continuous TV Watching
When we heard about ‘The Simpsons’ Ultimate Fan Marathon Challenge, in which ‘Simpsons’ fanatics would compete to see who could watch all 500 episodes of Springfield’s finest in a row, we said it couldn’t be done. Eighty-six hours and 37 minutes of continuous TV watching without any sleep just seemed too much for any human to endure, even though ‘Simpsons’ fans are made of strong stuff (and also beer and doughnuts).
It turns out we were wrong.