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09 Jan 2010 14:52

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Offbeat: Israeli chefs agree on just one thing: Hummus rules hardcore

  • 50+ Arabs and Jews united by crushing chickpeas source
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06 Jan 2010 11:16

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Offbeat: Perhaps this class shirt that goes to 11 should be reconsidered

  • That’s not offensive at all! Students at Edsel Ford High in Dearborn, Mich. (which is largely made of Arab-American students) thought that this shirt portrayed a brave face, a show of strength. Instead, it drew instant scorn from school officials and just about everyone else. We can’t quite pinpoint what it is, but we think it has something to do with the bird. Let’s just put this in the “nice try” bin and go back to the drawing board, OK? source
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05 Jan 2010 11:23

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Offbeat: Gamer spends too much money on item that isn’t real

  • $330,000 for virtual item source
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05 Jan 2010 10:43

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Offbeat: Douchebag: My site’s visitors are too fat. I’m a vapid jerk!

  • Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.
  • BeautifulPeople.com founder Robert Hintze • On his dating site’s purging of 5,000 members who gained too much weight over the holidays and are no longer “beautiful” in his one-dimensional, vapid mind. This guy somehow gets killer PR from this. But is it the good kind? source
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05 Jan 2010 09:23

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Offbeat: Dude buys $3 billion item on Amazon just to see what happens

Hear that sound? It’s the sound of someone’s credit card reaching its limit, and then some. This guy, whoever he is, is awesome. source
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04 Jan 2010 20:56

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Offbeat: Tattoo mom gets all “Memento” on her kids, does it herself

  • I’m not breaking the skin. It’s going to fade away, it’s like a pen mark.
  • Patty “Jo Jo” Marsh • On tattooing her kids using a homemade device – a pen and a guitar string. After the biological mother of some of the six kids she tattooed complained, Marsh and her husband, Jacob Edward Bartels, couldn’t understand what they did wrong (you know, besides break Georgia law about tattooing children and homemade tattoos). “I love my children, we’d never do anything to harm our kids,” she continued. You know, besides tattoo your kids using a pen and a guitar string. source
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02 Jan 2010 16:25

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Offbeat: Newspapers still fall for old “Heywood Jablome” gag

Around Christmas, both the Quad City Times and The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead ran “Heywood Jablome” attributions. Painful. source
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01 Jan 2010 18:35

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Offbeat: New Jersey’s water toxic enough for swimming in January

Just kidding. Today, a bunch of pasty white people jumped in the ocean for the Polar Plunge, which sounds really freaking cold. source
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01 Jan 2010 12:48

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Offbeat: Minnesota is worthy of an Empire State of Mind, too

  • “Empire State of Mind” was begging for a parody like this, and this low-rent version of one of Jay-Z’s biggest hits ever has the effect of taking the piss out of it.
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31 Dec 2009 16:05

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Offbeat: Marijuana Pepsi: It’s not a soft drink. It’s a poor woman’s name.

  • I want to know, what was it about me that made her go, ‘You just look like a Marijuana Pepsi.’
  • College counselor Marijuana Pepsi • On her mother choosing to name her perhaps the most bizarre name ever. This is worse than “Pilot Inspektor,” guys. She also noted that her mom wouldn’t let her teachers give her a nickname – she had to be called “Marijuana.” The best part of the story? It mentions that outside of her office, there’s a sign that says, “If You’re Waiting for Marijuana, Sit Here.” source
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