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more about #ripoffs more comments → TheBusinessGuy: Those who can't, teach. And they suck cash out of the wallets of the gullible. #scams more » goetz: It's a pyramid scheme, selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door. #scams more » se7a7n7: She also offers VCR repair classes. #scams more » depardoo: "intimate class" = 1 attendee "we'll send you the location after you sign up" = we're expecting stalkers #scams more » lil red: Does the class just hand out applications for jobs at Huffington Post? #scams more » Chore Boy: Awww! Look you're making her blush! Or is that the gin? #scams more » Drunken Economist: Yikes, it's like Rae Dawn Chong got hit with a truck. Or a rolling pin. more » raincoaster: EIC = freelance? more » sarrible: I think we need a new word for "bullshit." more » Aatom: Isn't this just another way to say "be a blogger"? more » Maulleigh: I totally bought that Dawn bottle because of the baby seal and I'm not kidding. more » krismry: Dawn turned out to be pretty good for washing the oil off birds whose feathers got caught in oil spills. Sometimes things in the humaniac movement are... more » Gonkette: I've had this problem today over the ConAgra fan group going around on Facebook: "Join the ConAgra Foods Foundation, Help me fight child hunger. When ... more » trustsatan: I am tired of people pretending that product marketing is anything but the work of the fucking devil. Why can't consumer products be judged on their ... more » Mike Byhoff: For me, what would work far better would be to clip enough coupons to see the CEO of Dawn® flogged in public. more » -
#creativeunderclass
Class Only Works for Teacher
"Find A Mag Job When The Economy is Crap." How? Start teaching a class called "Find A Mag Job When The Economy is Crap," like Ed2010 founder Chandra Czape Turner. Cost of class: $150. Actual value of class: $0. -
#jobsinhell
Edit Now. Pay
Buck up, underemployed aspiring media employees who are not celebuspawn: We've found you yet another opportunity for indentured servitude masquerading as a "media job." How'd you like to be a real live Editor in Chief, eh? More »LaterNever. -
#thecutespiracy
Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!
Sometimes you just want to grab The American Consumer about the shoulders, and shake him, and yell: "Hey, stop being such a sucker!" Because...OMG a fuzzy wuzzy baby seal! I must buy so much Dawn® brand product, or he dies. More » -
#crime
A Hipster Grifter-esque Affair
Thirty year-old Melanie Chen of Ohio has been sentenced to eight years in jail for soaking friends and relatives for $800k for fraudulent "medical bills" and spending the money on "things that didn't matter." How derivative. [UPI] -
#journalismism
Story Magically Re-Appears Three Weeks Later in Competing Outlet
Forbes, September 2: "Scott Gould happily ditched the securities market for a restaurant job." WSJ, yesterday: "Scott Gould went from trader to waiter-by choice." It's almost as if one followed the other for some easily determined reason. We'll never know. -
#wtf
Russian Alcoholism and Britney Spears Combine to Comedic Effect
A chance to laugh at foreigners! This ad for some English-language school in Russia shows some old Russian people singing "Hit Me Baby One More Time," all crazy and Russian-like. They probably didn't even pay royalties! Then, the big reveal: More » -
#hipstergrifter
Internet Dater Chooses Stolen Pictures Poorly
Hipster Grifter Kari Ferrell currently sits in a Philly jail cell awaiting extradition to Utah. OR DOES SHE? She's also a vegetarian lesbian named Erin from Detroit on OkCupid.com! More » -
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#makingit
Meet Your (Probable) $13,000 HuffPo Intern
Who in the world would bid $13,000 for the right to be an unpaid Huffington Post intern? This lady from Brazil, we think: More » -
#losersofmoney
Thomas Friedman Is $75,000 Poorer
Is mustachioed hybrid-hawker Thomas Friedman licking dog food remnants from discarded cans yet? Sadly no, but he must be getting close! First his rich wife's family business went bankrupt. Now he's lost $75K. Just yesterday! More » -
#drugs
Cocaine Going to Hell Like Everything Else
The recession wants you to stop doing coke, Sniffy Smith. In Europe, at least, coke prices are up, purity is down, and you've spent half your paycheck on a bag that's 91% "pet worming powder." More » -
#artiscommerce
Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich
A great, great story embodying the now-gone boom days: Louis Vuitton teamed up with Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami for an exhibit, with a pricey store. And the "prints" were just leftover scraps! Very fitting: More » -
#exclusive
Perez Hilton's Birthday Party: The Sponsorship Pitch
Yesterday was Perez Hilton's 31st birthday! His star-studded birthday bash will be March 28th at LA's "iconic" Viper Room. And here's how his marketing firm is trying to sell people sponsorships of this once-in-Perez's-lifetime affair: More » -
#journalismism
AP Lawsuit Laughably Says Media Shouldn't Steal
Something called "All Headline News" was ripping off AP news stories with nary a change or credit. So the AP sued them! Yesterday a judge let the AP's copyright suit go forward. One problem: More » -
#memes
Sexually Active Heathens Strike Back in T-Shirt War
Just as you knew would happen, those innocent Christian "EX-MASTURBATOR" and "EX-HOMOSEXUAL" t-shirts have spawned knockoffs. Liberals and their "memes" are so predictable:
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#television
New Mad Men Ripoff Lacks Sex Appeal, Cigarettes
Because every excellent, original TV series must have an inferior ripoff on another network: forget Mad Men, the new advertising-centric drama is Trust Me. On TNT! Your new Don Draper: that guy from Ed. More »
