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McDonald's Shamrock Shake To Spread Minty Green Rapture Nationwide For The First Time
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 8, 2012 4:00 PM  
This is exactly why St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland and spread Catholicism across its verdant hills and magical, leprechaun-filled valleys — so that McDonald's could one day offer its syrupy green mint concoction known as the Shamrock Shake to its customers throughout the United States. More »

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
By Laura Northrup on September 23, 2011 2:00 PM  
Here are eleven of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for neatness and usability in a Consumerist post. More »

Woman Leaves Entire $300K Inheritance To Doomsday Prophet's Family Radio
By Mary Beth Quirk on June 6, 2011 10:30 AM  
Remember how the world didn't end on May 21? Unfortunately for the loved ones of one woman who passed away May 2, in addition to the loss of a family member, they also found out she'd left most of her estate to Family Radio, the group driving those Doomsday buses around and predicting The Rapture. More »

Allstate Running Ad Next To Rapture Story Is Genius
By Ben Popken on May 19, 2011 2:00 PM  
Next to a CNN news story about how The Rapture is predicted to occur this Saturday reader Ed noticed a little ad for Allstate insurance. (According to some beliefs, The Rapture is when Jesus returns to the Earth and pulls up all the chosen in the air to meet him and get whisked away to heaven. Then some really bad stuff happens down here.) The copy reads, "When it happens, you're in good hands." While no doubt the placement is accidental, and part of the effect comes from the intentionally vague and all-encompassing tagline, one does start to wonder how Allstate insurance could help out during the End of Days... More »

How To Save Up Money For The Apocalypse
By Laura Northrup on December 3, 2010 9:00 AM  
Once you've taken advantage of the Second Coming Jewelry Sale, you may be wondering: how can I make sure that I have a nest egg ready for the End Times? Reader loquaciousmusic came up with this great idea to take advantage of two proposed "expiration dates" for the Earth. If the world ends—oh, well, you probably won't have missed that $10 per week. If it does—hey, use the money to buy yourself something cool to celebrate still being alive. More »

Sand Art Portends Economic Apocalypse
By Ben Popken on April 20, 2010 1:08 PM  
Is the Icelandic volcano ashsplosion actually just another of the seven seals bursting before The Economic Rapture envelops us all? These guys seem to think so. I like how they say, "Thanks."
Sony Takes "Play" Out Of PlayStation 3 With Global Outage
By Chris Morran on March 1, 2010 6:56 AM  
Remember when all you had to do to get a glitchy video game working was pull the cartridge out of the Atari, blow into it, and re-insert? Well, not so much anymore. Millions of PlayStation 3 owners around the world are justifiably irate at the moment because an outage of Sony's PlayStation Network isn't just preventing users from playing online; it's also keeping them from playing offline. More »

Atheists Sell Pet Care Service To Christians Anticipating The Rapture
By Chris Walters on September 2, 2009 12:28 AM  

—>An atheist in New Hampshire is hiring out pet care services to Christians who believe that there will be a rapture and they will leave behind their pets. He won't tell Mainstreet whether the business is very successful—he says his clients number "more than one and less than 175," but it's certainly an interesting way to bring two traditionally opposing groups together under a common (profit-making) cause.  More »

Save Your Friends From Post-Rapture Hellfire For Only $40 Per Year
By Alex Chasick on June 6, 2008 7:08 PM  

—>A company called You've Been Left Behind is selling a post-Rapture package that sends emails to your sinful friends and family, letting them know where you are and what's up with the whole pending apocalypse thing. For only $40 per year, You've Been Left Behind offers "to get one last message to the lost, at a time, when they might just be willing to hear it for the first and last time."  More »

Top 10 Biggest Business Debacles 2006
By consumerist.com on December 18, 2006 6:07 PM  

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Companies Ask You To Do Advertising For Their Lazy Asses
By consumerist.com on March 30, 2006 12:32 PM  

—>Is it just us, or does it seem like a lot of companies lately are trying to turn a profit by letting us do their jobs for them? We reported earlier today on early indications that fast food is going to be going self-service, and now, companies are trying to get us to create their ads for them.  More »

Alma Beats Omaha's Meat
By consumerist.com on March 23, 2006 1:46 PM  

—>Yesterday, Danilo wrote to say how pleased he was with the meat he ordered from Omaha Steaks per our Morning Deals recommendation. Today, Lara writes that even tastier than Omaha Steaks is Alma Meats.   More »

Gillette Razor Blade Hyperdrive
By consumerist.com on March 21, 2006 10:58 AM  

—>I, Brownlee, may have mentioned this before... but I am a huge fan of Gillette's multiple-razor initiatives. I can still remember the first time I experienced the Mach 3, like an angel's tongue lusciously licking the follicles off of my cheek. The next day, I marched into work and, with a word of stern command, began ordering stray co-workers — men, women, it didn't matter — to caress, nay, fondle my cheeks. "What you're feeling is very similar to what my ass once felt like as an infant," I'd confidently assert. If this made my co-workers uncomfortable, it was well hidden by the awe which enraptured them at the touch of my silky-smooth jowls.  More »

Pastors To Open 5M New Churches, Hasten Rapture
By consumerist.com on March 6, 2006 11:21 AM  

—>The Global Pastors Network — a confederacy of evangelical protestants closing the spines of their Bibles on their laps and thumping back and forth in excitement of the impending Apocalypse — have announced their "Billion Souls Initiative".  More »

Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne Leaks Own Interview
By consumerist.com on January 13, 2006 4:14 PM  

—>Following the ins-and-outs of business is not our forte, but we continue to be enraptured by the kooky CEO of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne. After making a call to investors where he assured them that he was not, among other things, a Jedi, he's now followed up by publishing an email interview with Business Week's e-Business editor Tim Mullaney—before the Business Week article has been published.  More »

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