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15 Oct 2009 21:10

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23 Sep 2009 11:01

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Offbeat: One drug raid turns into nine hours of “Wii Bowling”

  • We’re imagining the cops involved in the previous story we posted doing this. 1,100 police officers each taking turns playing Wii Bowling after they got done arresting the members of the Avenues gang. Man, wouldn’t that be a massive waste of police resources?source

02 Sep 2009 11:18

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Offbeat: This talking parrot: Officially smarter than us

  • We’ve been trying to answer questions like these all our lives, and we haven’t been able to figure them out. Cute animals – especially birds – always seem to upstage us.source

31 Aug 2009 08:45

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Offbeat: Unfortunate headline of the day: We bet BJ Services gets this a lot

  • Baker Hughes to buy BJ Services for $5.5 billion
  • The Reuters headline for a business story • Wait, it gets better. “Baker Hughes Inc said it will … take advantage of BJ’s pressure pumping expertise.” AHAHAHAHAHAHA. The unfortunate headline company company called and said you’re paying too much. • source

05 Aug 2009 21:33

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Offbeat: You should watch this horse-jumping-through-car video on repeat

  • Jesus christ. Wow. We think this may be the craziest or awesomest thing we’ve ever seen. We’re not sure which. But we can’t stop watching. (The guy in the car only got minor injuries, by the way.)source

03 Jul 2009 17:31

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Offbeat, U.S.: Anarchy: You know it’s ironic when a hipster says it’s ironic

  • I think it’s a strange choice for them … Irony is an overused word, but that’s somewhat ironic in this case.
  • Warwick Seay a.k.a. Warlock • Owner of the Circle-A Café in Milwakee’s uber-hip Riverwest neighborhood (where, strangely enough, we used to live) describing Wisconsin’s new logo for the Government Accountability Board, which looks a lot like the anarchy logo. So, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Disclosure: We used to work there back in the day) went out to find some hipsters to ask about this, and got this choice quote. • source

26 Jun 2009 13:22

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Offbeat: The Onion tweaks Twitter’s usefulness pitch-perfectly

  • Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share their most banal and idiotic thoughts with anyone pathetic enough to read them.
  • “Twitter Creator Jack Dorsey” • In an Onion article satirizing the service, where “Dorsey” says he’s surprised anyone – especially those in Iran – managed to find Twitter useful. Yeah, we’re surprised too, which is why we use it all the time. • source
 

24 Jun 2009 11:15

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Offbeat: WoW: The world needs more rage over video games, guys

  • Despite all his rage, he’s still just a rat in a cage.source

20 Jun 2009 22:36

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Music: Know that awful Attack Attack! video we posted? There’s more.

  • The original You probably watched “Stick Stickly” last night and, like us, wondered to yourself how low the bassist could gyrate himself while still being able to play. It was godawful.

20 Jun 2009 11:54

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Offbeat: To nerd and corrupt: Did a Geek Squad worker abuse his power?

They give them badges? Really? A New Joisey man was arrested Thursday night after allegedly using his authority to fix computers at high prices to instead convince a prostitute to perform sexual acts with him. No matter the outcome, 25-year-old Jay Mora of Newark is going to have a hard time living this one down. source