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CNN: "A Vest is Like an All-Day Hug"

Fantastic news! CNN Anchor Don Lemon was finally given permission by his new boss to wear a vest! Everyone at CNN is so excited about this that they spent like 20 minutes talking about how great vests are, and Lemon also showed off his reading glasses. Then he said an amazing aphorism that we are having embroidered on the dress shirt we've just torn the sleeves off of.

4:17 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Pareene
1,432 views, 14 comments

advertising

Ad-Swathed Girls Soon To Follow Consumers Everywhere

What do you get when you combine the stylish functionality of a bulletproof vest, the alarming increase in the ubiquity of advertising messages, and a thinly-veiled appeal to male lechery? You get the brilliant new "Wearable Video Video Vest," a DYNAMIC concept that DEMANDS attention. If you wear it they WILL watch. The only problem is that the bulky black thingamajig conceals the figure of whatever poor young female intern your ad agency has roped into toting it around at parties while portly older men leer. Pictures from the company's own promo site make the underlying purpose of this groundbreaking annoyance technology very clear: More »

4:23 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,184 views, 27 comments

Latest by westward ho: this looks like something from "tim and eric awesome show." more »