You Can Watch The Debate Like It's A Choose Your Own Adventure
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Quiz: What Sexy Halloween Costume Should You Be This Year?
With so many choices, how do you decide? Take this quiz to find out what suits your personality best.
Images for costume results from Yandy.com.
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Meet The Most Incredible 8-Year-Old Football Player In The World
You'll be drafting this kid to your fantasy team in a few years.
This is the 2025 Heisman Trophy winner, running back Costa Gikas.
Okay, maybe that's going out on a limb, but this kid looks like Walter Payton in children's size large pads. He is a pee-wee titan. Gikas shrugs off tacklers like an umbrella shrugs off rain. All the fundamentals of a future star are already there -- Gikas cradles the ball with care, switching hands when necessary to ward off fumbles. At the :38 second mark, he stiff arms a mere mortal child, then gains an extra five yards with three defenders hanging onto his jersey in a run that would make Marshawn Lynch proud. AND HE PLAYS BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL. The YouTube user that uploaded the video also uploaded a duplicate, titled "8 Year old Tank." That's pretty accurate. Also accurate (and awesome) would be "The Galloping Grecian."
Sit back, enjoy the tremendous production value on a child's highlight tape, and watch the future of football. Nick Saban's already scheduled his campus visit.
(h/t @TreyKerby)
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What Would Classic Literary Characters Leave As Their Away Messages?
BRB Books imagines what would happen if your favorite literary characters were 13-year-olds on the internet.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Ulysses by James Joyce
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Lord Of Flies by William Golding
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The 18 Most Amazing Hats At Luxembourg's Royal Wedding
The main reason to get excited about European royal weddings: HATS!
Princess Martha Louise of Norway
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Princess Astrid of Belgium
Image by Francois Lenoir / Reuters
Princess Mathilde of Belgium
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Queen Paola of Belgium
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Strip Clubs Have No Artistic Value, Court Rules In Awkwardly Hilarious Decision
A New York strip club was denied a “dramatic or musical arts performances” tax exemption in a ruling Tuesday. But the court was split 4-3, making for some awesome responses from the judges.
On Tuesday, the New York Court of Appeals ruled 4-3 that Nite Moves, a strip club seven miles north of Albany, is not exempt from paying sales taxes on admission and private dance fees under the state's arts exemption.
The three judges who sided with Nite Moves argued that it's not the government's job to decide what kind of dance is "cultural and artistic." But the deciding judges argued that if ice dancing isn't exempt, neither is lap dancing.
The court's decision:
Written by Judges Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, Victoria Graffeo, Eugene Pigott Jr. and Theodore Jones Jr.
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The dissent:
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Written by Judge Robert Smith.
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit" Is Going To Be A Sitcom
Sadly, it's not going to be about a mulatto, an albino and a mosquito sharing an apartment in Seattle.
CBS is developing a show tentatively titled Smells Like Teen Spirit with Dave Goetsch, a producer for their hit series The Big Bang Theory. It's going to be a traditional multi-camera sitcom about an 18-year-old entrepreneur who starts up an internet company with his best friend and his parents, who are aging indie rockers. It's unclear why this thing has to be called "Smells Like Teen Spirit" other than to piss people off.
The show doesn't sound like it will be all that horrible, though it sounds like they're just going to trade out the geek jokes of Big Bang Theory for cheap jokes at the expense of Pitchfork readers and people who own more than five Yo La Tengo records. So, instead of Green Lantern t-shirts, you get Pavement t-shirts. Or, perhaps more likely, Death Cab For Cutie t-shirts.
But ugh, the name of this thing! Doesn't it sometimes seem as though pop culture is just looking for new ways to make you go "Oh, Kurt Cobain would've haaaated that?" Kurt Cobain would've haaaaaated this!
Let's just take this moment to look back on Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in these last few months before we all start associating it with some lame CBS sitcom.
Source: youtube.com
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iPad 3 Customers Screwed By Apple
Apple just announced a 4th generation iPad, just 6 months after releasing the iPad 3. It's better in nearly every way. Not everyone is thrilled.
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Tila Tequila's Insane Rant Aganist The Illuminati
With added GIFs to make it a bit easier to digest. The following is verbatim from her website.
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Freedom Fighters & Truth Seekers Abroad,
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32 Things You'll Find At A Sheep And Wool Festival
The New York State Sheep and Wool Festival takes place annually in New York's Hudson Valley; it's pretty much the best place to go if you're at all interested in cuddly animals, adorable children, sweaters — or more yarn than you've ever seen in your entire life.
Lots of yarn:
The weekend festival always takes place during the third weekend in October and stars food carts, yarn vendors, and sheep breeders. Thousands of people attend each year.
I've gone for the past five years and I always promise myself I won't spend any money on yarn or food. Like clockwork, every year I find myself in line for the ATM with a maple cotton candy in one hand and a bag full of artisan-spun merino yarn in the other. (I knit, btw.)
Judgmental sheep:
"You can't sit with us."
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How Big Is The iPad Mini?
It's difficult to conceptualize the size of the iPad Mini, so we tried to put things in perspective.
A lot of people are wondering just how big the iPad Mini really is — bigger than an iPod? Smaller than an iPad? Let some of our friends explain.
It's somewhere in the middle —
heavier, but not too heavy
bigger than your hand but smaller than your arms.
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Google: Obama Won Final Debate
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8 Families Fighting For The Right To Get Married
New Left Media and TheFour.com captured the stories of same-sex couples from four states (Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington) that have marriage equality votes coming up in November.
Meet Liz and Angela. They've been together 6+ years and have an 11-month-old son.
Like many, they worry about being good parents. And despite having opposite personalities, they meet in the middle.
They had to get officially married in Boston because it's not legal in Maryland.
They just want to know that their family is protected like everyone else's in the state.
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How To Make Delicious Caramel-Apple Jello Shots
Just like the sticky treats of your youth, but with a hint of frat house . (Also: They're not sticky!)
These are inspired by the brilliant blogger behind That's So Michelle, who made hers with Butterscotch Schnapps. Find her original recipe here.
You could definitely swap out the vodka for bourbon, use coconut milk instead of evaporated milk, and regular hot chocolate mix if you can’t find caramel hot chocolate.
ACTIVE TIME: 30 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 4 hours, 30 minutes
Makes 40 Jello Shots
INGREDIENTS
Fresh lemon juice from 1 lemon
5 apples (Granny Smith work best)
1/2 cup water
1 envelope caramel hot chocolate mix (Nestle or Land o Lakes; regular hot chocolate is ok too; each envelope is about 1 oz.)
1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup caramel sauce
1 envelope unflavored knox gelatin
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup vodka
PREPARATION
Cut the apples in half lengthwise. Using a melon baller, scoop out the inside of the apples, taking care to create a shell of even thickness. Set apple halves into cups of a muffin pan and squeeze or brush lemon juice onto cut apples to reduce browning. Place in fridge until filling is ready.
Make filling: In a medium saucepan, combine water with hot chocolate mix and whisk until the cocoa dissolves. Add evaporated milk and caramel sauce and whisk again to combine. Sprinkle gelatin onto mixture evenly and allow to sit about 2 minutes. Heat the mixture over medium-low heat, whisking occasionally, until it just reaches a gentle simmer — this is to ensure gelatin is fully dissolved.
Add sugar and simmer gently for about a minute. Turn off the heat and let mixture cool to warm. Add vodka. Transfer to a container with a spout.
Fill each apple cup with caramel jello mixture. Refrigerate a few hours or overnight.
To serve, place apples flesh-down (Jello down) on cutting board. Cut lengthwise in half, then in half again. Trim off any brown parts with a paring knife. Serve immediately. (The lemon juice can only prevent the browning for so long).
CREDIT: Adapted from That's So Michelle
Cut 5 apples in half lengthwise.
Using a melon baller, scoop out the inside of the apples. This part is the least fun...
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Do You Have What It Takes For A Badass Job in the CIA?
Does “Homeland” have you thinking about a career change? Well, at the Central Intelligence Agency even the librarian jobs sound cool.
First off, if you had too much fun in college you need not apply.
(Sorry Ben)
Via: ctteb.com
Nearly every position requires a bare minimum 3.0 GPA.*
*Many require a minimum 3.5 GPA
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And absolutely no use of illegal drugs in the past 12 months.
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Still here? Wow, okay, now you just need to undergo an in-depth psychiatric evaluation...
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College Football Player Busted For Plagiarizing 11-Year-Olds
Student athletes are the best and brightest.
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In the tradition of Ohio State's Cardale Jones ("I ain't come to play school!") and seemingly 83% of all college football players, North Carolina's Erik Highsmith is in trouble for... well... not coming to play school. For his communications class (HEY ATHLETES, STOP BEING COMMUNICATIONS MAJORS, TAKE A BUSINESS CLASS SO YOU DON'T ANTOINE WALKER!) Highsmith was required to keep a blog for class that would count for a significant percentage of his grade. Rather than writing a short blog post himself, Highsmith cruised down the Internet super highway until he found an Oracle ThinkQuest article about poultry farming. It was written by four 11-year-olds for their class. After the half hour it took Highsmith to parse the meaning of their prose, he decided to borrow it.
A sample of the ThinkQuest post:
Poultry farming is raising chickens, turkeys, ducks and other fowl for meat or eggs. Poultry farms can be: 1. Breeding farms where they raise poultry for meat, or 2. Layer farms where they produce eggs.
The ‘best’ breeds depend on what you want from them. Good egg layers are Rhode Island Reds [brown eggs] and Leghorns [white eggs].
A sample of Highsmith's post (via SportsGrid):
Poultry farming is raising of turkeys, ducks, chicken and other fowl for meat or eggs. Poultry farms can be breeding farms where they raise poultry for meat, or layer farms where they produce eggs. The ‘best’ breeds depend on what you want from them. Good egg layers are Rhode Island Reds [brown eggs] and Leghorns [white eggs].
I do love that Highsmith took the time to get rid of the numbers. Like, "Okay Erik, if we're going to get away with this, we're going to have to disguise it. So first thing's first. Let's get rid of the numbering. Next, let's — wait, let me check this text. Free Pizza in the quad? Fuck this noise. Publish."
According to the News & Observer this is one of two posts that Highsmith plagiarized, but the other one was not written by tweens so it's less funny/sad.
Highsmith's response?
This is just the latest in the CW teen soap that is the marriage of UNC academics and athletics.
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The Only Apple Event Post You Need To Read Today
Apple just announced a pile of new gadgets on stage in San Francisco. Here's everything you need to know.
This was expected to be the "iPad Mini" event and, well, that's what it was. Here she is:
This is, quite simply, a shrunken iPad.
- It has a 7.9-inch screen compared to the normal iPad's 9.7 inches.
- It's very, very thin — like, look at this:
- It has the same screen resolution as the original iPad, at 1024 x 768. It's smaller so the screen will be sharper, but not quite as sharp as the 9.7-inch iPad's 2048 × 1536 screen. They're not calling it retina. The thinking here is that apps designed for the iPad 1 and 2 will work out of the box with the new iPad Mini, no changes necessary.
- It's got all the other regular iPad features: Like optional LTE and the iSight camera and FaceTime HD for videochatting.
- It costs less than all the other iPads, at $329. Not as cheap as many were hoping, since it's still markedly more expensive than Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire HD.
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Honey Boo Boo Fakes Sleep During Interview With Dr. Drew
Never change, Honey Boo Boo. That and more in today's CelebFeed Gossip Roundup!
Honey Boo Boo pretended to be asleep while being interviewed on Dr. Drew's talk show.
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel sold their wedding photos to OK! for $300K. Justin also sang a new song at the wedding and dedicated it to Jessica.
Source: FameFlynet Pictures
Robert Pattinson hates people, loves dogs:
"He wept like a baby at ‘Marley &Me’. “I was so surprised that I was devastated. It was awful. I never want to see it again. I can’t take it. I hate people but I love dogs.”
Via: hollywoodlife.com
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21 Things You Can Eat Out Of A Pumpkin
Bowls are boring. Now you don't have to eat out of one until spring.
Good Morning Pumpkin
The Breakfast Pumpkin with Poached Egg, Sausage, and Cabbage. Get the recipe here.
Source: auntiepasto.com
Fancy Dinner Party Pumpkin
These are stuffed with sausage, granny smith apples, and Israeli couscous.
Source: countryliving.com
Soupy Pumpkin
Pumpkin Soup with Gruyete: Get the recipe here.
Source: bonappetit.com
Carb Load Pumpkin
Baked Pumpkin Stuffed with Bread and Cheese: Get the recipe here.
Source: whenharrymetsalad.com
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Wheelchair Bound Body Builders And Other Links
Living proof to never let anyone tell you you can't achieve your dreams.
6 of the most unintentionally hilarious moments from famous scary movies. - [Cracked]
10 things no one has ever, or will ever, say on Halloween. - [FunnyOrDie]
Let's all agree to stop putting good news on Facebook, okay? - [CollegeHumor]
12 strange, surreal vintage photos from seances. - [MentalFloss]
Natalie Portman's Dior mascara ad has been banned in Britain. - [FashionEtc.]
Check out the top 15 most elaborate inside jokes on television. - [Uproxx]
Zynga is really hoping Apple is distracting you from their massive layoffs today. - [TheAtlanticWire]
Does the NHL even want to end the lockout? - [SportsIllustrated]
If this squirrel is really psychic, its powers are kind of lame. - [TruTV]
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