These ads were not only sexist but racist as well, as in a commercial of an early soft-drink mix brand offering painful flavors like “Injun Orange” and “Chinese Cherry,” complete with caricatures of those cultures.
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If you’ve ever needed a reminder of how brilliant this ensemble is, simply watch this mashup. It’s unreal how many ways you can deliver a single phrase.
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Google decided to shame the entire nation at once by putting together a chart that maps the top “how to spell” searches by state between January 1 and April 30 of this year.
In perhaps the most telling bit of data on this map, South Dakota frequently looks up the spelling of “college.”
See the tweet from Google Trends here.
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Margaret Cho offers her mini-guide to surviving the Trump presidency.
A decade ago, long before online virality was its own kind of currency, a video wormed its way onto the web that brought the nation together in shared disgust. In it, creamy shit oozed into a cup and two girls, Latifa and Karla, devoured it while making messy, depraved love. It was called “2 Girls, 1 Cup,” and everyone watched it.
An eloquent, exhaustive new piece from MEL Magazine evaluates the video’s legacy 10 years down the line, a concept that would’ve sounded absurd when the video first premiered.
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In the grand scheme of the entire universe, from the first seconds after the Big Bang to the moment you clicked on this article, 20 minutes is nothing. Bill Wurtz’s channel.
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You should spend, like, an hour or two looking at these dog names. Immediately. The biggest bubbles represent the most common names: Bella (1995), Max (1153), Charlie (856), Coco (852), Rocky (823), and so on.
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