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You've Gotta Fight For Your Right To Make Vaguely Naughty Jokes On A License...
Listen New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division, just because your dirty mind is taking a simple inside joke to a scandalous place doesn’t mean one man is about to give up on his ideal license plate. His...
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Woman Tracks Down Her Stolen Wallet On A Hunch, Catches Thief Using Her Debit...
We’re so used to witnessing the theft of our money by tracking bank statements online or fielding phone calls from our credit card issuers over potentially bogus charges, but as it turns out, there are...
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Arsonists Torch Playground So 7-Year-Old Starts Lemonade Stand For Rebuilding...
First of all — to any would-be arsonists out there? It’s a really crappy thing to do, burning down an elementary school’s playground. But even though fiery actions taken by arsonists torched a...
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Teavana Needs To Teach Its Employees That Disabilities Exist
Some disabilities telegraph themselves pretty obviously: think of someone using a wheelchair, or a blind person walking around guided by a guide dog. Other disabilities don’t. Rosalie is deaf. When she...
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Strip Club Claims Lap Dances Are Just As Arty As Other Dances & Should Be Tax...
Is there a difference between bumping and grinding to the beat while sort of sitting on someone’s lap, and creating art through dance? One strip club in New York doesn’t think so, and as such, wants to...
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Should Clothes For Larger Children Be Called 'Plus-Size'?
People come in different sizes. This is particularly true for children, whose bodies are constantly growing and changing. Standard sizes meant for all kids don’t fit all kids, especially with an...
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Restaurant Owner Gets Revenge On A Customer With A Fake Sex Site Profile,...
We’re constantly amazed at businesses that just don’t know how to take criticism. No, it likely doesn’t feel good to read negative reviews about your establishment on the Internet, but getting revenge...
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Oscar Mayer Figures Serving Up A PR Stunt With Bacon Will Get The Public To Bite
Here at Consumerist, we’ve seen more than our fair share of PR stunts designed to lure us in and think “Gee, that product really is great!” But when said promotion involves bacon we already know we...
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Study Says 800K Homeowners Should've Avoided Foreclosure But Big Banks Messed...
Getting a mortgage modification has been hard enough for homeowners, what with disorganized big banks not having enough well-trained people on staff to deal with the necessary ins and outs of the...
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How Do You Access Orbitz Low Fare Promise, Exactly?
(donbuciak)Travel-booking site Orbitz has what they call a Low Fare Promise: if you find a cheaper posted fare for the same flight that costs at least $5 less than what you just paid at Orbitz, they’ll...
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What A Black Friday Logistics Disaster Looks Like From The Other Side Of The...
(Dan_DC)We mere consumers sit here waving our credit cards, whining about how we missed this or that great holiday deal, or our orders were canceled. But what’s the winter shipping frenzy like on the...
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Mmm, Food Court Fish Eggs: California Mall Introduces Caviar Vending Machine
(CNNMoney) Perhaps you just can’t find the right course to follow that trio of Cinnabons paired with a food court coffee and have an extra $500 just burning a hole in your pocket. If you like fish eggs...
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Eighth Grader To Hasbro: Your Purple Easy-Bake Oven Is Too Girly For My...
(Hasbro) If people get ants in their pants over a LEGO set just for girls, why not go after the purple Easy-Bake Oven, which features girls prominently on its packaging, for promoting sexist attitudes?...
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Guilt Makes For A Delicious Addition To Forbidden Foods When You’re On A Diet
(photographynatalia) When all you want, all you need is just a bite of smooth, creamy, calorie-laden chocolate ice cream and you’re not supposed to have it for whatever reason (dieting, it doesn’t...
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Thieves Get Grinchy By Following Delivery Trucks & Stealing Gifts From Doorsteps
(Karen_Chappell) While some of us are busy shopping online like Santa’s elves or buying gifts to celebrate Hanukkah, it’s also the time of the year when others get their Grinch on. But cops say three...
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Jo-Ann Fabrics Wants Me To Pay Shipping For An Item The Store Needs To...
(bluwmongoose) Maggie just needed to pick up a little item at Jo-Ann Fabrics, and thought her errand would be a simple one. Go in, get it, pay and get out. But as we’ve learned in our time at...
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Entrepreneur Selling His Last Name To The Highest Bidder To Raise Funds For...
(Enokson) Sometimes all you have to trade on is your very own name, which is exactly the bait one man is setting in order to raise funds for his company. The Florida man has been wearing sponsored...
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Eight-Year-Old Donates 500 Presents From Birthday Benefit To Toys For Tots
(FOX 23) There is no strict governing body presiding over exactly what form Santa Claus must come in, so why couldn’t he look like a generous eight-year-old boy? The young man from Owasso, Okla. was...
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Hallmark UK: Sorry About That Card For 13-Year-Olds Equating Cleavage To...
(Twitter) In the current social media environment, all it takes is one Twitter user tweeting one simple pic and a firestorm of controversy can be ignited. Such was the case when one Twitter user...
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Abercrombie Kids Can’t Count To Three, Exists Outside Of Reality
(Chris Blakeley) David has a problem with clothing vendor Abercrombie Kids. They don’t know how to count to three. This would be an issue for many kindergarteners, but is especially problematic for a...
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