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29 May 2013

Drawn

It’s said that men are from Mars and women from Venus. This animated short offers a riff on that notion, introducing the different daydreams motivating a man and a woman on a first date. The question: Is there some common ground where the twain can meet? The short comes from The Animation School in South Africa, where several students collaborated in making it, including Armand Filmalter, Theresa Hargitai, Alexandre Salomon, Simon Van Der Merwe, Stephen Van Wyk and Michelle White. H/T Kuriositas

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28 May 2013

Monsieur Redneck

Monsieur Redneck, the USA’s very own Jeff Foxworthy, takes his unique brand of comedy north of the border to Montreal, Canada. “For the record,” Foxworthy says, “my definition of redneck: It is a glorious absence of sophistication. … And you can easily spot the differences between rednecks and sophisticated people, because sophisticated people have retirement plans, whereas rednecks, we play the lottery. That is our retirement plan.” Be sure and return to LOL next Tuesday for another dose of the lighter side of life. — The Wickel

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28 May 2013

Inmate Goes Loco Over Taco

Gary Cole, an inmate at a maximum security prison, claims he came up with idea for Doritos Locos tacos and the fast food chain Taco Bell stole it.

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28 May 2013

More Muslim Mayhem

What does the beheading of a British solider in Woolwich and the Boston Marathon bombings have in common? Simple. You could never guess the religious orientation of the perpetrators from reading the US newspapers. In this edition of The Great Eight, Ben Crystal has some fun with the media’s Islamophobia, as well as wondering aloud where’s Colonel Klink when the IRS needs him most.

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28 May 2013

New Periodic Table Song

Michaael Moffit wrote and sings a new ode to the periodic table, based on Offenbach’s “Can Can.” H/T AsapSCIENCE

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28 May 2013

Don’t Drone Me, Bro

New York City spends more per capita on education than anywhere else in the country, but more than half of those graduating from New York’s high schools aren’t ready or equipped to advance into a community college. Joe Dan Gorman addresses the dumbing down of America, as well as the growing corruption within our federal government, in this edition of Intellectual Froglegs.

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28 May 2013

Iran Shows Off Missiles

Iranian presidential candidate and current defense minister Ahmad Vahidi toured a military compound containing new long-range missile launchers. The missile launchers, forming part of the Persian state’s program for military self-sufficiency, are beinged housed at an undisclosed location within Iran.

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28 May 2013

Super Date

A superhero’s Internet date doesn’t go as planned, as he has a hard time getting Lucy to appreciate his special powers. Leigh Way posted this animated short on AniBoom.

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27 May 2013

Superman Rescued

A Minnesota man has found a rare first edition of Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman, squirreled away within a wall at his home. The collectible has been put up for auction, and is expected to fetch over $100,000 — even though the Minnesota man and a relative ripped the back cover in a dispute following the find. H/T Blazing Cat Fur

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27 May 2013

French Soldier Stabbed

In a copycat assault patterned after the brutal murder of a British soldier in London, a French soldier has been stabbed while on patrol in a busy shopping district in Paris. Muslim extremists, it appears, are hellbent on a chopping spree.

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