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Yum! Brands Introduces New Wearable Feedbags

Whether you're trying to get as much of your Yum! Brand food into your mouth as humanly possible or just not in the mood to raise those heavy old arms to feed yourself, new wearable feed bags are functional, fashionable and sweeping the nation. Foods from Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut work the best, but we've found that wearable feedbags work on almost any kind of food, and they look great too. See The Onion video, inside... More »

8:51 AM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Jay Slatkin
6,273 views, 37 comments

Latest by donkeyjote: @theBIG: What's wrong with just using a spitoon or bowl for the shells? more »

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Step Back In Time To The Blockbuster Living Museum

Before the days of Netflix and the internet there was the "video store." According to The Onion, Blockbuster was "a specialty shop where customers would exchange money for the short term use of videos in an archaic system called "renting." Now we can visit the Blockbuster Living Museum to relive those days of yore. Watch The Onion video, inside... More »

6:17 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Jay Slatkin
7,437 views, 29 comments

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The Long Johns Explain The Subprime Meltdown



John Bird and John Fortune are British satirists who, as The Long Johns, explain in eminently practical terms exactly how the subprime meltdown came to be.
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1:33 PM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Chris Walters
2,108 views, 9 comments

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Anti-Wal-Mart Show Discounted By Critics

Sure, it's a clich , but the closest New York City residents are going to get to the Wal-Mart experience is... a musical! Yes, with singing and dancing! After a year of retooling to transfer it from its semi-professional beginnings in Wisconsin to its latest incarnation Off-Broadway, "Walmartopia" opened this week to mostly poor reviews. More »

7:05 PM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Chris Walters
3,203 views, 17 comments

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How Are We Paying Off Our Subprime Mortgages?

But with liquidity drying up, the last, and most hilarious, option is probably shrinking...

[The Onion via Credit Slips]

12:21 PM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Ben Popken
2,540 views, 19 comments

Latest by azntg: I can see myself being in the 17% who gets a job at the loan office bringing it down from the inside, only to get the loan company bought out by another mean loan company more »

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Consumer-Made Ad Mocks Chevy

With all the bloat and spasmodic jibbering about consumer-generated ads, it's nice to see one backfire. Chevy teamed up with The Apprentice to hold an online contest where you remix video and sound clips to make your own Chevy Tahoe ad. Winners receive their choice various expense paid trips. More »

11:17 AM on Fri Mar 31 2006
By popkin
438 views, 6 comments