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more about #panic more comments → Trai_Dep: They're really missing an opportunity by not emphasizing their strollers' unique dual usefulness at Bris ceremonies. #kidsthesedays more » GlasgowRose: Rihanna redux: "You can stand under my McLaren umbrella - ella - ella - eh - eh - waaah!" #kidsthesedays more » GlasgowRose: Love or hate HBO's Bored to Death, it offers a pretty solid takedown of Park Slope, with strollers underfoot in most BK scenes. #kidsthesedays more » Mediahohoho: Also, I understand the use of "allegedly" when referring to a crime, but this is a straight-forward fact. Either the strollers clipped the kids digits... more » gawkimo: There was a time not that long ago when only strollers you saw in Cobble Hill were ones left abandoned on street corners, filled with empty beer bottl... more » Mediahohoho: Wow. For a minute there I thought you were linking to me with the phrase "sexually marginalized Mr. Moms in the streets of Cobble Hill." But yeah, fin... more » BullfightsOnAcid: Now that episode of the 'The Wonderpets Save the Missing Finger' makes perfect sense. #kidsthesedays more » SidAndFinancy: I have a Maclaren and I give it 1-1/2 thumbs up! #kidsthesedays more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: Back in my day (1978-1981), we sat in a stroller made of left over canvas scraps from the Converse factory and we put our feet on a chintzy little pl... more » BettyCrocker: I predict a spike in baby names "Nubbin" "Ninesy" and "Stubbz". #kidsthesedays more » Sergio Hernandez: I like that they're recalling models from 1999; it makes me picture a bunch of 10-year-olds being pushed around in strollers. #kidsthesedays more » Spirit Fingers: Not sure where you found that picture, HamNo, but it is at once ridiculous and frightening. It causes a visceral reaction. One that might entail a ste... more » JEMathews: Bugaboo and Stokke make thousand-dollar strollers. Maclaren is comparably reasonable at $300. #kidsthesedays more » mskris: Misslinda has it right - Maclaren is old-school (ie 2000) fancy. Also, you won't need pics of panicked mobs or moms - just click on your own link to M... more » Mo MoDo: These recalls are always just scams to destroy the secondary market for used strollers. #kidsthesedays more » -
#panic
Fancy Stroller Recall Brings Park Slope to Grinding Halt
Why does the average Park Slope parent enjoy pushing around their vulnerable young children, Daffodil and Ainsley, in a stroller that could, at any moment, chop off their tiny defenseless fingers?
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#health
At Last! Obama Girls Finally Vaccinated
So now you know it's safe to do the same for your kids. Although there is no video footage of this suspicious event, so proceed at your own risk! More » -
#aporkalypsenow
Stay Tuned for Sports, Traffic, and Swine Flu
The dreaded Mexican Pig Flu will be back. Oh yes. Of that, there is no question. A few months from now, you will wake up to hear daily Swine Flu Reports sandwiched between weather and traffic. Not a joke! More » -
#trendwatch
Server Trouble? Blame Iran
Is your company's Web server hosed again? Give your beleaguered sysadmins and programmers a break and blame hackers. Preferably Iranian hackers. It's all the rage! Just ask The Atlantic and Boing Boing. More » -
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Google's New Paranoia
Former Intel chief Andy Grove famously believed that "only the paranoid survive" in Silicon Valley business. Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page seem intent to inject this spirit back into fat, dominant Google. They're even worrying about Bing. More » -
#aporkalypsenow
Swine Flu Pandemic Is Here
Stop laughing at swine flu right this instant: the World Health Organization has just declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years, meaning we're all just one mutation away from devastation: More » -
#nowtheytellus
Turns Out Like Everybody Had Swine Flu
Are you a resident of New York City? If you answered 'yes,' have you passed away in the last two months? Surely you have. Look to your left. Look to your right. Both of those people have swine flu! More » -
#aporkalypsenow
Swine Flu Strikes Glamour
It's spreading. Earlier this month, Vogue was infected with the deadly Mexican Pig Flu. Did you imagine that they could contain it? They could not. More » -
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#terror
Stray Pet of Doom Sparks Media Frenzy
As of this morning there are 171 news articles about the totally harmless rat snake—a popular type of pet—that was found in a Bronx apartment. It did not eat anyone, yet. More » -
#breaking
Swine Flu Strikes Vogue!
Conde Nast's fanciest magazine is infected with the dreaded Mexican Pig Influenza! Right where Anna Wintour works! Remain calm.
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#aporkalypsenow
Swine Flu Panic: Over
Two more New Yorkers with swine flu have died. Why isn't there a fresh round of PANIC? Because it looks like the worst is over. And we're not all dead! More » -
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Swine Flu Panic Paralyzes Horace Mann
Horace Mann, New York's most Gossip Girl-esque private school, is closing due to SWINE FLU fears. If there's one way to revive the city's panic, it's getting private school parents involved! Update: Read the memo. More » -
#callingbullshit
Violent Crime Wave Makes Downtown NYC Slightly Less Not-Dangerous!
How bad is it out there? So bad that innocent citizens are being assaulted in fawncy downtown NYC much more than they were last year! Panic! How bad is it really? It's not that bad: More » -
#aporkalypsenow
Fear of Swine Flu Making People Try to Catch Swine Flu
Oh, delicious, bacony irony: The news media have created such a panicked frenzy over swine flu that some people are now considering deliberate infection, so as to avoid DEADLY accidental infection. More » -
#breaking
Oprah KFC Coupon Riot!
Queen of the USA Oprah gave out coupons to the whole world for a free KFC lunch today. And guess what: As we speak, there are Riots and Sit-Ins and Furor at KFC. BREAKING: More » -
#panic
Brain-Thrashing Raccoons May Be New Animal Terror Story
The swine-flu pandemic scare is fading fast. What other old disease will we be terrified of next? How about the one where raccoon larvae can make you blind? More » -
#aporkalypsenow
Media Growing Tired of This Swine Flu Panic They Started
After more than a week of SWINE FLU PANIC, the very media outlets that help fuel the PANIC are starting to agree with our original assessment: this whole thing is kind of a farce.
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#weekinreview
The Week A Scary Thing Happened
Happy May Day! Have you marched in solidarity with any workers today? No? Well, it was raining. We forgive you. More » -
#panic
Everything Everywhere Closed. Swine Flu.
Remember how after 9/11, every backwater public library in Iowa and auditorium in Missouri spent millions terrorist-proofing themselves, JUST TO BE READY? Swine flu panic is the new that. More »
