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Nobody Wants Your Pennies, Pal
All ads suck! Unless they involve hidden camera pranks that hilariously mock average people through the use of monetary technicalities. OfficeMax is advertising some cheapo back-to-school sale with an ad campaign consisting of a guy going around New York and paying for all types of things with pennies—and his escapades are all caught on tape! Despite our annoying "too-cool-for-school Brooklyn hipster" pose around here, we have to admit this is the funniest ad campaign we've seen since Gary Busey started giving out free advice. Still, don't shop at OfficeMax or else you're a total pawn of the machine. Click through to see two of the spots: dude attempts to buy deli food with pennies, and dude attempts to buy used car with pennies. Chuckle at the rage of the working class!: More »
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American Apparel Spoofer Embraces Equality In Genitalia
The notorious, mysterious, and sexy American Apparel ad spoofer raises so many philosophical questions: What is art? What is advertising? What is porn? And does showing blowjobs count as "sexual equality?" The spoofer has a long history of drawing female genitalia (and dildos). But now he or she has made the leap to showing penises for the cause—something Dov Charney can only dream of. Click through for the most overt (possibly NSFW, although it's just a drawing) example: More »
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Photo-Bombers: The Lurking Menace
Photo-bombers. They creep madly among us, ruining our special memories. The folks at Asylum.com have put together a nifty slide-show of these insidious creatures. Some of my faves—including the cutest bomber ever!—after the jump. More »
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America Needs Pranks
Improv Everywhere just started a new blog, Urban Pranks, to document the many public stunts the group has inspired. The New York group famous for showing up at Best Buy in blue polos and freezing Grand Central has offshoots across the country that are doing things like a protest against protesting, a dinner party at Ikea, and a button in a park that says "Do Not Push" (when it was pushed, planted agents dance to "Everybody Dance Now" &mash; clip below). The blog does a great job quickly explaining each prank and then showing the money shot. And it's a sign of a much-needed rise in public silliness, which is just what young media types need. More »
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Chris Rock Victim Of Cute "You Raped A Child" Prank
An unnamed reality show accused Chris Rock of having sex with a British minor in South Africa where the comedian is touring, according to a court official. The show sent a fake prosecutor to court and told Rock that South African police were going to arrest him; he quickly called his lawyers. The AFP hasn't found the name of the show that pulled the prank. But of course it'll get on TV with no whiff of scandal because ha! ha! Statutory rape! Photo: Getty
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Never Mind Yale, I'm The Idiot
Haha! So, um, I got a little jump-the-gun self-righteous there and didn't quite read the fine print! This wasn't really a Gossip Girl experience day for admitted Yale students. It is clearly a fake, but a hilarious and (for like two seconds or two minutes if you're an idiot like me) slightly believable one. Anyway, please enjoy without any of my ridiculous social theorizing. Click through for larger.
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Is George Clooney The Nemesis Of The Tabloid Economy?
George Clooney has jokes. His latest celebrity-based antics: a swarm of paparazzi descended upon his house in Italy after a (false) rumor spread that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were going to be getting married there. Clooney, who was away working, heard about this, and ordered 15 large wedding tables to be set up on the house's lawn. The paps went crazy [Hollyscoop]! Clooney laughed. He's a funny guy. But there's more to this than just a friendly joke. Because George Clooney, one of the biggest celebrities in the world, doesn't just want to make himself chuckle; he wants to undermine the entire celebrity economy that gives him his lofty position in the first place. More »
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Prankster Helps American Apparel Embrace Porn
Stereotypical hipster brand American Apparel has always walked the fine line between sexiness and porn with its ads (like the one pictured). Or gone over the line, depending on your perspective. But now the anonymous prankster that earlier posted a fake finger-in-the-butt AA billboard has struck again, helping the company along its inevitable path to becoming a full-blown pornography producer. Why beat around the bush? Heh. After the jump, the two new naked AA ad spoofs [via Copyranter] that have appeared in downtown NYC. Possibly NSFW, if you consider simple line drawings to fit in that category. More »
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Socialite Rank Is Dead
The bizarre art project that was bitchy internet slambook Socialite Rank is now suddenly shuttered forever, leaving us alone with only a scant handful of sad Lalibertian doppelganger sites like ParkAvenuePeerage to comfort us. There is some consolation, though! Socialite Rank has left us with one last Engrish (more likely Engrussian) missive to treasure forever. Let's try to figure out what they're meaning! For starters: "The meaning was to create a book that would definitively showcase the inner workings of New York's 10021 world." More »
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MoMA Art Assault
The Museum of Modern Art enjoys a love-hate relationship with its neighbors — sometimes quite heavy on the hate, it seems. More in the vein of gentle ribbing is this prank, implemented in conjunction with MoMA's setup work for a show by video artist Doug Aitken. While the museum ran projected test patterns on its external facades, enterprising across-the-street neighbors used lowly PowerPoint and a reg'lar projector to plaster MoMA with an inviting "YOUR VIDEO ART HERE!" billboard. Unfortunately, MoMA's own mighty projections will overwhelm the pranksters' feeble home model, so this guerilla addition to the project cannot remain. More »
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'Vanity Fair's' Other Insouciant Joke on the Public
What's this? The Suri Cruise photo score must have Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter feeling his oats again, as buried deep in the same issue is a traditional Spy-like clip-out prank. The "joke" is a fake cover flap designed for surreptitious placement over newsstand copies of The Weekly Standard. Unfortunately, with the exception of the ersatz P.J. O'Rourke quote ("I Haven't Been Funny Since 1977"), the japes are highly lame-ass. Seems like more could have been done with the New Yorker's much worse cover flappage. More »
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