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As what would APPEAR to be an April Fool’s Day prank, Hamburger Helper dropped a five-song mixtape titled Watch the Stove earlier Friday. w.soundcloud.com I mean, this has to be a joke, right? RIGHT?! But guys, no kidding around…this mixtape is actually straight . Hamburger Helper might have just pulled a Beyoncé and dropped the freshest tracks of…
I’m 26, single, and four years removed from anything resembling a serious relationship. So I did what any solo twenty-something guy would do: I installed Tinder on my mom’s phone and asked her to find me a date. As me. It’s a warm late-summer night in New York’s West Village, and I’m on my way…
From artisanal toilet paper to aerosol TVs, here are the funniest fake ads on April Fools’ Day 2016 so far. (The Washington Post) Today is April 1, i.e., April Fools’ Day, i.e., the worst day of the entire year for anyone trying to cover news on the Internet. This year, as has happened before and…
The International April Fools’ Day Congress (IAFDC) announced Friday that the beloved holiday will be canceled for the first time in history due to the world already being a huge joke. “Just look at America,” IAFDC president Bembi De Gaulle at a press conference in Washington D.C. “On one side, you’ve got a reality television…
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton went off on an environmental activist on Thursday, after being asked about the large sums of fossil fuel-linked cash she has received. At a Clinton rally on the State University of New York at Purchase campus, Eva Resnick-Day, an activist with the environmental justice group Greenpeace, asked Clinton, “Will you…
Square Enix debuted a new trailer for its upcoming role-playing game, Final Fantasy 15, during a special event tonight. The trailer for the game, which is confirmed for a Sept. 30, 2016 release, focuses on the cast and the combat of Final Fantasy 15. Final Fantasy 15‘s latest trailer shows never-before-seen gameplay, as well as…
On Wednesday, 16 conservative female members of the media joined together to put out a well-intentioned if demented letter urging Donald Trump, their party’s leading presidential candidate, to admit that a woman’s experience might be worth considering. The letter, which you can read here in full, was written in response to Trump campaign manager Corey…
Chris Christie, who acted wickedly in a past life and must now mortify himself as Donald Trump’s personal jester, has debased himself once more, having been seen inexplicably pouring a bag of M&Ms into a box of M&Ms. Instead of shrugging off this scandal on account of being A) an adult, B) a U.S. governor,…
Image: Pete Blackburn Earlier today on this very website, my colleague Sam Biddle referred to a recent photograph of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pouring a bag of M&Ms into a box of M&Ms as “embarrassing” and inexplicable—an analysis as unfair as it is incorrect. Because in this instance, for what may be the very…
How to avoid common mistakes when publishing Accelerated Mobile Pages As Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are building up we’ve noticed the same mistakes happening over and over again when someone starts publishing AMPs. Here is a list of steps you should take to avoid these when publishing AMPs and to ensure a great AMP experience…