Cutest couple ‘12 rode the waves the other day and killed it.
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As the drama surrounding the suit store continues — from firing its founder to poor quarterly results to a takeover battle with Jos A. Bank — puns on “you’re going to like the way you look” got more action on Twitter than a rental tux during prom season.
(Possibly a Men's Wearhouse rental.)
For the last 7 months, discount suit maker Men's Wearhouse has made headlines in the business press. The latest came today, when it announced a $1.6 billion hostile bid to takeover smaller rival JoS A. Bank. That offer is actually Men's Wearhouse's second, having been rebuffed in its first attempt in late November.
But wait, there's more — in October, JoS A. Bank actually offered to buy Men's Wearhouse not once, but twice. And, of course, all of this dealmaking back-and-forth began as a result of Men's Wearhouse firing its iconic founder and commercial pitchman George Zimmer in June.
Of course, while the retailer's situation has been in flux since the summer, there has been one constant theme running through its corporate gyrations: people making jokes on Twitter using its tagline, "You're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it."
Here's a timeline of key events surrounding the retailer as told through Twitter jokes using its motto:
In a town of fewer than 2,000 people, Taylor’s class of 1920 seems to have had a pretty good year.
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![The yearbook is packed with sincerity, and the fun that the class of 1920 had together in "the happiest days of [their] lives" shines through.](http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr06/6/14/enhanced-buzz-28171-1389038329-19.jpg)
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In honor of his 45th birthday, and his amazing everything.
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Cuphead is out late 2014.
Did you miss them?!?!?!?!
... and it only took her three tries!
Best. dad. ever. First spotted on The Mary Sue .
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Wonder who’s still practicing!?
Attended: Convent of the Sacred Heart
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Attended: Our Lady of Lourdes
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Attended: St. Frederick's Catholic School // St. Andrew's Catholic School
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Attended: St. Rose of Lima Catholic School
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IT’S NICOLAS CAGE’S 50TH BIRTHDAY!!! Let us pray.
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It’s well edited, but definitely fake.
A 20-year-old Kentucky woman reported missing by her family was found at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas late Friday afternoon.
According to police, Jena Chisholm had been sleeping at the parking garage at the resort. She went willingly to the security office at the resort and told them who she was. Security guards then called her mother, Tina Chisholm...
Right. Now.
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She spent all Monday standing outside in sub-zero temperatures.
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“You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.” —Miranda Richardson
If you like your hard-boiled crime novels full of similes with a side of action, look no further than Chandler. A colorful read, The Big Sleep is notable less for its corrupt Los Angeles cops and mobsters and its high-drama plot and more for Chandler's unwavering bent for likening.
Recommended for: People who enjoy their similes like a dirty cop enjoys a bribe.
Plascencia introduces us to an El Monte at once grounded in reality and thoroughly enchanted. The novel complicates our understanding of metaphors: Merced de Papel is a woman who's made of paper, and the primary plot involves the rebellion of a gang of carnation pickers against the planet Saturn. With its multiple levels of narration, the book will remind you that the fantastic and the absurd are sometimes the strongest vehicle for truth.
Recommended for: People who are down with magic realism.
In his breathtaking book, Davis chronicles the history of Los Angeles as a history of conflict — Los Angeles emerges as a city of haves and have-nots with deeply racist roots. Starting from the 19th century, his sweeping take contextualizes the growth of the city and the problems that continue to plague its people.
Recommended for: Those who’d like an explanation.
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If you want to dive into the dark side of late '60s L.A., it doesn't get darker than Helter Skelter. It's a near-700-page tome chronicling Charles Manson, the Tate-LaBianca murders, and the death of the freewheeling California '60s: a fascinating true-crime classic written in part by the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi.
Recommended for: Anyone obsessed with the cult of personality.
They are 12 and 14???? Time to quit life.
Chloe, 14, and Halle, 12, are sisters from Atlanta, Georgia who recorded this incredible rendition of "Pretty Hurts," in December.
Girls is back on Sunday and the onslaught of returning shows is just beginning. Set your DVRs now!
Season 5 of Justified finds Timothy Olyphant's Raylan Givens tangling with some Florida lowlifes, relatives of Dewey Crowe (Damon Herriman), one of Harlan County's sleaziest denizens. Plus, Boyd (Walton Goggins) tries to find a way to get Ava (Joelle Carter) out of prison... and he exacts a bloody revenge against those who put her there in the first place. Along the way, wisecracks are exchanged, along with gunfire.
Season 5 premieres on Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 10 p.m.
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The stellar third season of HBO's Girls finds the quartet struggling with new challenges and the first two episodes — which air back to back as a one-hour premiere — reintroduce new realities for these characters. (The brilliant second half of the premiere is a precise and gorgeous tone poem about a road trip.) While Hannah (Lena Dunham) has settled into a life of domestic bliss (relatively) with Adam (Adam Driver), Marnie (Allison Williams) is in a perpetual state of free fall, reeling from her breakup with Charlie (Christopher Abbott). Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) is trying to find her wild side, while Jessa (Jemima Kirke) continues to create chaos in her wake. Change both big and small is on the horizon for these women, and the first few episodes of the season capture the pain and humor of self-transformation. Not to be missed under any circumstances.
Season 3 premieres Sunday, Jan. 12 at 10 p.m.
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Just when you think things couldn't get worse for the hardscrabble Gallagher clan, it does. In Season 4 of Showtime's addictive Shameless, it finally seems as though life for the Gallaghers has improved — Fiona (Emmy Rossum) is excelling at her new job and her new relationship, Lip (Jeremy Allen White) is enrolled at college, and Debbie (Emma Kenney) is taking her first tentative steps into womanhood — until everything falls apart again. Frank (William H. Macy) takes things to a whole new level of disgusting (you've been warned), while Veronica (Shanola Hampton) and Kevin (Steve Howey) face some surprising news. It's the Molotov cocktail of television shows.
Season 4 premieres Sunday, Jan. 12 at 9 p.m.
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The star of Ravenswood (back tonight!) outs herself as a “closet nerd” in our Q&A. Find out all of her adorably geeky interests below!
Blowing frozen bubbles is a fun winter activity, and it’s a lot safer than playing with boiling water.
You may not know his name, but the late Run Run Shaw had an indelible effect on kung fu films. The filmmaker died today at age 107.
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WASHINGTON — Legendary Chinese filmmaker and philanthropist Run Run Shaw died Tuesday at the age of 107.
Before The Matrix, before Big Trouble in Little China, and before the Wu-Tang Clan, there was the Shaw Brothers, the predominant Hong Kong movie house for some 40 years that cranked out more than 280 films. From the late 1950s through the 1990s, Shaw's movie operation dominated Hong Kong and Chinese cinema generally.
He also cast a long shadow over American cinema, influencing a host of modern directors, including Quentin Tarantino and the Wachowskis.
Classic Shaw Brothers movies — eight of which can be found below — span a mix of epic musicals, psychedelic gore, exploitation, and cutting-edge science fiction.
Though predominantly known for their Kung Fu movies, the Shaw Brothers produced a wide variety of films spanning virtually every genre. This 1962 production is a classic example of the company’s epic musical takes on traditional Chinese mythology, and tells the tale of a tragic love affair between a mystical snake and a human man.
While Western movie makers were busy keeping women stuck in stereotypical roles, Hong Kong’s directors were going in an opposite direction, mining Chinese mythology for action heroines and villains. Come Drink With Me is one of the Shaw Brothers’ early films to feature a strong female lead. The movie also has some of the best fight choreography ever, and is a classic example of the Shaws' ability to mix comedy, drama, and action into one movie.
Just when physical book lovers were losing hope in a world of Kindles and iPads, Google Book Art emerged. Since 2011, this Tumblr has collected the detailed, often beautiful, images that lay not in the writing itself but the history of the eyes who read it.
Throughout The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins (1911). Digitized April 7, 2005.
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An Account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners, in England and Ireland by Josiah Woodward (1701). Digitized Jan. 24, 2011.
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From the front matter of English Traditional Songs and Carols edited by Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (1908). Original from Harvard University. Digitized Nov. 6, 2007.
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From p. 450, Female Piety: or, The Young Woman’s Friend and Guide Through Life to Immortality by John Angell James (1853). Digitized Feb. 13, 2007
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If you haven’t heard yet, a bikini bridge is when a woman is so skinny her hip bones lift the front of her bikini up when she lies down.
Phase 1:
The premise is simple. Create propaganda parading the "bikini bridge" to be the best big thing... Circulate it throughout the Internet. Simultaneously, we create reverse propaganda, denouncing the bikini bridge as an unhealthy obsession. This, too, we circulate through the Internet. Our mission during phase 1 is to garner support for these social outlets. The more followers/subscribers the better.Phase 2:
After a fair amount of circulation has been accomplished, we circulate the images throughout parts of the Internet know to be biased on the subject of weight (i.e. thin privilege, fat shaming, etc.). This should cause large enough of a stir to snowball into a fairly big subject.
