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Category: School

May 14, 2012

Science, Explained II

From my files, dated May 1996. They're supposedly real exam answers given by fifth- and sixth-grade students. (Science Explained I, posted earlier this year, is here.)

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Category: Dumb Blonde

May 11, 2012

The Jumper

Bob walks into a sports bar around 9:58 PM. He sits down next to this blonde at the bar and stares up at the TV. The 10:00 news was just coming on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on a ledge of a large building about to jump.

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Category: Media & Photo & True Story

May 9, 2012

Um, We Meant "President"

French president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his re-election bid, and MSNBC showed him giving a press conference Monday (May 7, 2012) to speak about the change of leader.

Unfortunately, MSNBC showed the wrong "Chyron" -- or on-screen graphics -- to tell viewers who he was:

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