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Archive for the month “May, 2013”

Is It the Real Thing?

Georgia antique dealer Cliff Kluge says he may have stumbled onto Coke’s secret recipe after he bought a box of old papers at the estate auction of a famous Georgia chemist. Kluge thinks the document is the real article and intends to sell it for up to $15 million. However, not everyone is convinced, and Coca Cola’s representatives say it is probably a recipe for an imitation cola drink.

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Nerd Wins the Office Lottery

A hot delivery man ignores all the sexy ladies to make out with a nerdy assistant.  Skyfilm Studio created this 2001 advertisement to promote the Hungarian lottery and show that winning the lottery is more likely to happen than this situation. H/T CulturePub

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This Board Game’s Tough

Learning to play a new game has never been so painful. Rhett and Link outline the rules in this segment from their new, weekly YouTube program The Mythical Show.

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Justice Dept Circumvents Law

Reacting to Attorney General Eric Holder’s Tuesday afternoon press briefing on the Department of Justice’s secret seizing of Associated Press phone records, Fox senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano tore into the agency for its “direct assault” on the Constitution that he says circumvented the proper channels laid out by the law.

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The Nixon-Obama Parallels

Paranoia, creation of enemies lists and a delusional “us vs. them” mentality serve as common threads between the Republican administration of Richard Nixon and the Democratic administration of Barack Obama. Pundit Dick Morris explains.

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Einstein’s Gravity

In 1907 a young Albert Einstein was looking for a way to extend his special theory of relativity to include acceleration. It took him eight years to come up with the mathematical solution that we know as the general theory of relativity.

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All the News That Wasn’t

Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of murdering babies born alive.  “However, most networks didn’t report on the Gosnell trial,” says Jodi Miller. “They were already too busy ignoring Benghazi to find time to cover it.” In this edition of NewsBusted, Miller also touches on the IRS’ growing scandal involving illegal harassment of conservative groups,  the Justice Department snooping on the Associated Press and Elizabeth Colbert Busch’s defeat in her South Carolina Congressional race.

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Up Next? Maggot Burgers

Have you ever considered having caterpillars or termites for dinner? Insects may be repulsive to the average Westerner but the squishy insides of the critter’s crunchy exoskeleton are rich in proteins, and also provide several other health benefits for humans.

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Ersatz

Dušan Vukotić won an Oscar for best animated short with his comedy Surogat, also known as Ersatz or The Substitute. The 1961 work —  produced by Zagreb Film, a Croatian production company — won the Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons) in 1962. The simple story introduces a man who comes to the beach and uses inflatable objects for all of his needs.

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BOOBy-Trapped

If you want to get ahead in the work place, you need to grow some business boobs! So explains BBC Comedy in this amusing sketch from across the pond. Stay tuned to LOL for another edition of the lighter side of life next Tuesday. — The Wickel

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