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Image copyright APImage caption Antonin Scalia, appointed by President Reagan in 1986, was one of the most conservative Supreme Court judges Officials at a US university were left red-faced after their decision to rename a law school after late Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia prompted hilarity over its unfortunate acronym. George Mason University in Virginia…
Story highlights The school first changed the name to The Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSoL Observers took to Twitter to comment on the acronym’s similarity to a curse word The school first announced it would change the name to The Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSoL, after receiving an anonymous $30 million…
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Friends, we’ve finally made it: The hellishly wearisome event that is April Fool’s Day is basically at its end. We at io9 despise this black day, but even our curmudgeonly souls got a smile out of this “prank” by the Canadian Library and Archives, which claimed to have dug up Wolverine’s military records from its…
In case you missed it last week, an enterprising Twitter user pointed out to Walmart that they were selling University of Maryland shirts with the nickname TERPS jammed into what is clearly an outline of Massachusetts: Now that’s amusing in and of itself. But what makes this story unique is Walmart’s reaction to the error….
I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my least favorite racist on the Citadel. Continuing his tendency to Tweet absolutely anything, no matter how ridiculous, Donald Trump recently shared the following video with his 7.3 million followers: Yes, that is Mass Effect music and voice acting throughout the ad, which appropriately ends with a title card…
Illustration by Jim Cooke I can’t. It flummoxes me why this flummoxes a lot of people. I guess you could call it a double flummox, like some sort of gymnastics move. If I were to imagine such a move it would involve me, my paws taped to a swinging trapeze bar, cutting myself loose at…
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…