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Can't do much about it. Tastes like chicken.
Sun January 18, 2009
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As print news dies, how to pay for web news? |
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Girls - Earn $10k in 9 months |
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Inventor of Gatorade furious that company is changing the drink's name to "G" |
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The death of Circuit City attracts customers |
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Aston Martin can't pay their bills. Hopefully, Q has something up his sleeve |
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Sat January 17, 2009
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CNBC unveils 64-product "As Seen On TV" championship bracket, including top seeds Thighmaster, Foreman Grill, Girls Gone Wild, and The Clapper. Whoa, BluBlockers is only #15 |
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Canada would like to remind all U.S. Americans that its Circuit City stores are still open for business and have no plans to liquidate. Yet |
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Here we go again: Microsoft has taken Park Place, but the EU is gunning for Boardwalk. Opera sits in the corner, nuzzling B&O |
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Barclays Bank is worth about as much as a packet of crisps. Bullet Tooth Tony is on the case |
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Today's hedge-fund manager disappearing after losing $350 million is... Arthur Nadel |
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Hertz, don't it? |
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Let us pay our respects to the pickle on the Heinz ketchup bottle |
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Clear Channel Communications clears out 7 percent of its employees, plans to syndicate Ryan Seacrest radio show to even more stations to fill void of crappy music and on-air douchebaggery |
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Fri January 16, 2009
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Six-Figure jobs you don't need a degree for. Nigerian prince strangely absent |
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Wall St. bigshots are about as good at being funny as they are at keeping the economy healthy and robust |
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Chrysler kills the PT Cruiser. Fat, balding guys and 60-something blond hottie-wannabes everywhere shed a tear |
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Steve Jobs' cancer may have returned, say doctors using the Bill Frist pull-a-diagnosis-out-of-my-ass method |
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Everyone expecting a tax refund take one step forward. Whoa, not so fast there Californians |
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Want to make a few bucks in this tough economy? Rent out your house for porn shoots |
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After losing $8.29 billion last quarter, Citigroup to split into two companies, each of which will only lose $4.145 billion next quarter |
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Ace reporter Riik Römeerö finds out unemployed people lie to the unemployment office about job-seeking in order to keep their unemployment benefits |
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Enter Pabst Blue Ribbon beer can art contest for cash, possibility of your work being featured. Don't let possibly of winning year's supply of PBR deter you |
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Former six-figure mortgage broker applying for part-time retail job tells CNN, "It feels very degrading, some of the places I'm applying. I'll take anything at this point." That should help |
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Zimbabwe unveils Z$100 trillion note. That's $30/£20 (£25 if you're reading this after lunchtime) |
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Circuit City blows fuse, liquidating assets, laying 35,000 employees off |
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CSPI sues Coca Cola over Vitamin Water claims, points out sugar is not a vitamin |
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YES WE CAN (exploit Obama campaign imagry in advertisments and branding) |
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Star Tribune files for Chapter 11. More details in here and here |
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30-year mortgages fall below 5%. The fact that no one can qualify for a mortgage might be the reason |
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Bank of America stole $120 billion whilst you slept. I thought robbery was illegal? |
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Thu January 15, 2009
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Countryside Home Loans in court: You know all that stuff we say in our ads about how we're going to work to help you out with your mortgage? Yeah, that's bullshiat |
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British government approves plans for sixth terminal and third runway at Heathrow, enabling BA to increase its baggage loss by at least 20% |
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Deutsche Post buys stake in Deutsche Bank so Deutsche Bank can buy Deutsche Post subsidiary Postbank. New entity will be know as DeutscheDeutschePostPostbankBank |
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Smurfit-Stone to file for bankruptcy due to financial crunch, weakening sales of cardboard boxes. Oh for smurfin' smurf's sake |
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| (Advertising Age) |
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Coke to unveil a new tagline, "Open happiness," to replace its current slogan since 2006, "The corn syrup water side of life" |
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Kellogg's pulls peanut butter snacks from shelves after discovering Keebler elves fail to wash hands after each bathroom break |
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To protest the over-photoshoppery of ad images, some guys paste giant stickers of photoshop toolbars onto subway ads |
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Black Angus Steakhouse files for bankruptcy. Something about going broke buying letter G's to fix their constantly vandalized signs |
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Oil falls to $37 a barrel on report of soft Corinthian leather shortage |
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No wonder Quiznos is so expensive -- they're paying a million bucks for an ounce of meat |
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Manhattan loses its last virgin |
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After announcing multi-billion dollar deal to acquire Merrill Lynch, Bank of America is announcing they need a government bailout to acquire Merrill Lynch |
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What the American car manufacturers can learn from the Japanese toilet industry, before they go down the drain completely |
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Second richest man in the world is finally the master of his domain after winning it back from Indonesian squatter, who demanded $55 million or he'd route his connect requests to Pornville |
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Foreclosures skyrocket 81% in 2008. How's that "Ownership Society" working out for you? |
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As if you needed another reason to hate American Idol, AT&T is spamming customers with AI text ads |
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Wed January 14, 2009
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iLeave |
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Dear employees. We know working in the newspaper business can be stressful so we're giving everyone an extra week off Oh and we're not paying you for it |
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According to New York law, internet advertising (aka "click-throughs") amount to solicitation of business |
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Toyota managers voluntarily buying their cars to lift sales. US automaker managers agree to do the same, until they realize it means they'd have to buy their cars |
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Wonder about GM's life after government investment? Listen to Vice Chairman Bob Lutz shiat a farking brick that he "can't stay in a decent hotel" anymore |
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North America's largest maker of telephony equipment files for bankruptcy, surprising investors who thought it went bankrupt years ago |
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| (Some Guy) |
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Schindler Elevator cuts 25% of its workforce. List not released yet  |
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There's no way we'll have a recovery in 2009 |
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The worst of the recession is behind us, and we're primed for a recovery in 2009 |
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If you ever wanted to star in your own cruise ship "passenger falls overboard" story, the good news is that it just got a lot cheaper to get on the boat |
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The credit crunch: It's all David Bowie's fault. Wait... what? |
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L.A. Times figures now's a great time to raise their daily price by a quarter |
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Citigroup is breaking up faster than ice in the Northwest passage. All hail deregulation by market forces |
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Oracle cuts 500 jobs, if only there was someone who could have foreseen this |
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Tue January 13, 2009
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"The person's score could be unchanged; it could go down. Or in some cases, it could go up." Says hard hitting analysis on new credit scoring system |
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Pfizer pfires 800 unpfortunate scientipfic stapf |
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How do you sell 54 Lamborghinis in 8 days? Well fraudulently, duh |
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Lotus delays next James Bond supercar to A) Fit cooler weapons. B) Find more room for suggestively named vixens. C) Make it a hybrid |
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| (Crains Chicago) |
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Chicago Tribune adding tabloid format Monday. One thing Chicagoans don't like, is change, so expect a fail tag followup |
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Neiman Marcus realizes maybe people aren't interested in lifesize Lego figures, football endzones and other luxury crap in this recession, is forced to cut 400 jobs |
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Yahoo rumored to be hiring an extremely hittable CEO |
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Ten investing tips from Warren Buffett. Surprisingly, "stick money in mattress" not one of them |
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Avon ladies becoming popular in England as respectable businesswomen are sacked and forced to find new line of work |
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Citigroup in discussions with Morgan Stanley to create the world's largest bankrupt brokerage in search of a handout |
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Bernanke says Bush's stimulus moves are better than Obama's, the clockwise swirl is preferred over the pinch |
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Spending $30 billion of the stimulus plan on new electric and broadband infrastructure will transform the US economy, not just prop it up for a while by cutting everybody a $500 check to spend on crap made in China |
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Another sign of the pending economic apocalypse: Consumer Electronics Show attendance down 23% from last year |
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Bernanke says Government action key to recovery. In other news: The Fed orders 100 more printing presses |
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German grocery store chain plans big push into American market, hopes to attract shoppers who find Wal-Mart too suave and sophisticated |
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Oil falls below $37 a barrel. Remember a time when this would have been fantastic news? |
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Panel recommends national securities regulator for Canada, which will make things much easier for Canada's sole corporation Tim Hortons |
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How bad is the housing market? Forbes Magazine has named Syracuse, NY, which is selling abandoned houses for $1, the third strongest housing market in the country |
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Web site set up to promote Coney Island now links to Boney Island. The rides are probably better, at least |
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Tarragon files for bankruptcy. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme up for auction at Scarborough Fair |
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Hey, let's bottle normal tap water and call it "Energized tap water" |
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Pootie-poot passes gas to Europe |
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Sony may report their first operating loss in fourteen years on news that not lowering the price on the PS3 was a really, REALLY dumb idea |
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Chrysler dealers not interested in company's new vehicles being shoved down their throats. "We don't see any peak coming up where all of a sudden Chryslers are going to be desired" |
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| (Motorweek) |
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A soon-to-be-former Honda engineer explains that Honda's new hybrid doesn't get as good mileage as the older Civic model, because they weren't going for that 'label' |
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Mon January 12, 2009
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German government agrees to $50 billion stimulus package in order to avert worst recession since WWII. Poland looking around nervously |
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If this "shot in a pouch" thing catches on, we'll never be able to laugh at Canadians for drinking milk out of bags again |
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Now you have a friend in the bankruptcy business |
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| (Some Guy) |
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After exploiting cheap Chinese labor to sell *insert product here* to every American for less than $25, Wal-Mart exec fears people don't have a "desire for consumption" anymore |
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Dominos to close and reopen 7 shops. It's like they're knocking them down then setting them up again |
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The source of recent economic instability has finally been located: it's all Beyonce's fault |
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What if you could have the #1 commercial without even breaking a sweat? What if someone else made it for you for free? |
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Luxury suites. Shopping sprees. Four-star hotels. Ah, life at the California Avocado Commission |
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Every reveal from the first day of the Detroit Auto Show. Wait, there's still a Detroit Auto Show? |
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US carmakers unveil new lineup of cars which are very, very fuel efficient when they sit at the dealership waiting for repairs |
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The second shoe drops in the real estate market. Chicken Little reports from his bunker that the commercial real estate market sky is falling |
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Oil traders are hoarding so much oil they need to find five more supertankers to store the juice, the precious juice. Joseph Hazelwood hoping to be recalled for duty |
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If you're wearing a t-shirt sporting December's headline about Ford not needing a bailout, that was SO last month |
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Deutsche Bank losses reveal that complicated financial instruments that create imaginary money through mathematical models does not lead to profit |
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| (Some Guy) |
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Equal files for bankruptcy. Sweeeeeeeeeeet |
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