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more about #whoops more comments → SarahHeartburn: Jeez. News industry is in a permanent funk and they arrest someone who's only trying to drum up business? more » TheMediaMob: No, I'm pretty sure this story is true. I heard it while lying in a bathtub of ice in a Mexican hotel room with only one kidney. more » RandomLunatic: Every crime reporter instinct I have was screaming that there was something wrong with this story. Glad I wasn't in a position to write about it as if... more » Btwbfdimho: Another fake? Another reality show freak? What's next, big sky? We're all Santaclausians now. more » skt.smth: I lived in Alabama for a while, and I have to say, I'm surprised anybody caught it. more » Hands: Had to go digging for it but some humor just never gets old. more » budy920: where's everyone's sense of humor?- we are in some serious shit if we can't just laugh at unintended funny stuff- more » nicepony: The one in the aqua pants suit was the decoy. brilliant. more » BowlingForDollars: Surely somebody in marketing got fired over this. more » monoverb: The market here is getting hammered as a result of this FYI. This morning the stuff I trade is off about 10-15% so far. more » poachedeggs: Well thats what you get when your nation was built by slaves... more » davebg5: Isn't Dubai the place where regular people get arrested for defaulting on credit? ETA: Yep...Off to debtor's prison for Dubai World!!! [www.nytimes.... more » JacquesPaysan: 59 billion in debt? Amateurs. more » Sharksbreath: So I guess Halliburton will be moving it's headquarters back to the states. Hey I was just wondering. Has anyone seen that check from the Iraqi oil... more » bowleserised: Horse racing world to collapse in three... two... more » -
#fatkillers
Crazy Peruvian Fat Killers Were Fake
Remember that twisted story of the Peruvian gang which supposedly killed obese people and sold their fat for use in cosmetics? It was made up by an investigator. Thank God. [BBC] -
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Television News Reporters Just Can't Catch a Break
Jesus. As if those YouTube videos of reporters falling down in funny ways weren't bad enough. Mobile, Alabama's WPMI-TV thought it was a cool idea to post tweets of breaking news on a billboard next to anchors' pictures. Nope! [PalmettoScoop] More » -
#whoops
Dubai Has No More Money
Dubai—home to the future world's tallest building, artificial islands shaped like a palm tree, and a misplaced faith in the power of wealth—is broke. The government has asked its many creditors for a six-month reprieve from debt payments. More » -
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In Which Dan Baum Annoys Every Jew He Knows
Any mass email with the subject line "Jews" is going to be trouble. That is an ironclad rule. So Dan Baum, the famously former New Yorker writer, should've maybe rethought this one. More » -
#whoops
New York Times Execs Are Overpaid Even By Their Own Standards
The New York Times, which six months ago forced staffers to take a 5% paycut, has been overpaying its publisher and CEO for nearly two years in violation of its own compensation rules. We're supposed to bail these people out? More » -
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Minnesota Democrats Take On Pawlenty With Swearing Old Chinese Woman
"The link that was supposed to direct reporters to a state economic development report actually sent them to a YouTube video titled 'Chinese Grandma Learns English.' For four minutes, an elderly Chinese woman repeats obscenities, oblivious to their meaning." [Strib] -
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Video: Man-Crushing British PM Gordon Brown Renames Omaha Beach For Obama
In the D-Day commemoration ceremony today at Omaha Beach, British Prime Minister's mancrush on President Obama continued unabated, as evidenced by a not-so-slight Freudian Slip in the middle of his speech. More » -
#politics
Whoops, You Just Twittered Your Senate Candidacy
Hey old man, you just sent the entire internet your plan to run against Senator Bob Bennett in 2010. Did you know? You are the Attorney General of Utah and you shouldn't be on Twitter. More » -
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#diplomacy
Hillary Clinton Gives Russia The Button
Hillary Clinton presented Russia with an "easy button" to celebrate our awesome new relationship but then everything went terribly wrong. More » -
#whoops
Real Presidents Unable to Reach Sarah Palin on Phone
Oh no, sad old man George H. W. Bush called Alaska Governor Sarah Palin twice and she never called him back. He is so sad! More » -
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The Obama Girl did not actually vote for Obama. Or at all! [NYT City Room]
