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We laugh, because "snozzberries" is obviously a fanciful, fictional word, and nobody knows what they really were. Except that Roald Dahl, the book's author, knew exactly what snozzberries were: They're dicks. Snozzberries are dicks. Willy Wonka made those kids lick dick-flavored wallpaper.

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While burger and pizza chains remain the most popular in the U.S., diners and those trying to capture their attention are increasingly moving in a south-of-the-border direction.

Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

An anonymous reader writes "Doug Belshaw and Carla Casilli, along with a community of stakeholders, have been working on a specification of skills needed for web literacy. Doug report that Brett Gaylor and Chris Lawrence announced version 1.0 of the spec. In a nutshell it's described as 'A map of the territory for the skills and competencies Mozilla and community think are important to get better at to more effectively read, write & participate on the Web.' Usages include writing curricula influenced by it, and issuing Open Badges that align with it (using the 'alignment' metadata field). Doug also calls for help with localization of the spec into other languages."

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Dude’s shoulder game is unreal ⊟

Doesn’t even have to tap a button to switch calls; he just leans his head to one side to pick up another one. Need to talk to two people at the same time? You can keep your conference calls; all he’s gotta do is shrug. He must be calculating his monthly bills in that planner, what with his two phone plans, and the fines he’s racking up from ballin’ so hard.

This is from Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, by the way, and the photo comes from Rise Above the Cilantro.

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LOOK OUT, PETE CARROLL

.@nflnetwork's @MichelleBeisner with @PeteCarroll pregame interview. Lord Vader was not taking interviews. pic.twitter.com/UB1Oah5QYV

— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) October 28, 2013

This photo taken before tonight's Seahawks-Rams Monday Night Football game is a sign of one of three things:

1) The Rams, having thought about signing Tim Tebow and Brett Favre, have turned to the dark side.

2) There's a World Series game and MNF game in the same city on the same night. Characters from Star Wars can walk around the empty streets of town peacefully and nobody will be the wiser.

3) It's near Halloween.

Update: OH NO THERE'S MORE

This just happened on @NFLnetwork. pic.twitter.com/lzwaO5Icz4

— Joe Hoodberry (@JoeGoodberry) October 28, 2013

Yes. Summer ‘14.

theatlantic:

Food Stamps are about to Get Cut by $5 Billion

Stimulus spending that boosted benefits runs out on November 1. 

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~Richard Nixon

classy dinner convo with brittwilson and vickinerino

Well, that sucks. School administrators in Alamogordo, NM decided to pull Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere from a supplemental reading list, where it had been for 10 years, because one parent complained about a slightly racy scene. Without talking to teachers first, natch. Bleh.

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The Typing of the Dead: Zombie Panic (Sega - PS2 - 2004)

Even though it says “Zombie Panic”, this is pretty much the same game as the Dreamcast Typing of the Dead. According to wikipedia, all Sega did was change the Dreamcast backpacks to PS2s and add a few minigames.

~Lisa Nakamura

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Nick Offerman on Jimmy Fallon

Hes got the moves! What isnt this man capable of..He is, the most interesting man in the world.

One of the comments on this video was  ”I like the image of the Offerman clan where Nick is the delicate artsy one”. That made me crack up, its too comical to even imagine. I feel like he is Ron Swanson sometimes..

 

Just a friendly reminder that Nick Offerman can break dance.

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nighthawk lego (www.google.com)

'nuff said.

Achewood devotees were excited in February when cartoonist Chris Onstad revealed on his rarely updated blog that he was heading to Los Angeles to pitch an animated series based on his incredibly popular webcomic. Unfortunately, the network meetings didn’t go well — but Onstad remains undeterred. In fact, he says he was reinvigorated by the [...]

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The Minister’s Tree House is an incredibly massive 80-room tree house in the outskirts of the small town of Crossville, Tennessee. The 5-story, nearly 100-foot-tall structure was started in 1993 by Minister Horace Burgess, who says he was inspired to build it after receiving instructions from God. The house is supported by seven trees and includes a bell tower and sanctuary (it is meant to double as a church). Once a popular site for tourists, the tree house was closed by the local fire marshal in 2012.

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Perhaps remembering that Touched By An Angel was once a popular show, NBC has ordered a script for a new procedural about an angelic detective who solves supernatural mysteries. The series is based on Thomas Sniegoski’s popular Remy Chandler novels, which follow an angel/Boston P.I. who renounced Heaven to live on Earth, where he can still turn invisible, speak and understand any language, read minds, and talk to animals. Which, of course, are all angelic powers listed in Corinthians, alongside the power to be brooding and good looking.

Franklin & Bash co-creator Bill Chais is set to write the script as well as executive produce, alongside former Charmed producer Jonathan Levin. According to Deadline the project is described as “a procedural with humor, questions of faith and fate, and a very distinct partnership.” Hopefully the show will keep at least some of the books’ titles for episodes, which ...

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Last week Kristen Schaal continued her banner year as the Senior Women’s Issues Correspondent on The Daily Show by commenting on all the progress women’s Halloween costumes have made, growing from just a limited range of breast-bearing apparel to a the modern era's whole variety of “sexy” outfit options. And she brought along some great new costume ideas of her own. For men, there’s the “Sexy Hollywood Producer Who Hires Women Over 40 For Meaningful, Age Appropriate Roles,” and for women, there’s the get-right-to-the-point “Sexy Vagina,” plus optional pizza slice to entice Jon Stewart.

Now the show is auctioning off the elaborately stitched female anatomy costume for charity, though exactly what charity the proceeds will go to is kind of fishy, since right now it's just a blanket designation as a charity auction. Since it’s NSFW, the eBay listing requires adult verification, but ...

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German Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst has been suspended by Pope Francis after reports about lavish spending on renovations at his residence in Limburg. Now, the home he spent tens of millions of dollars on may be put to use as a refugee center or soup kitchen.

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This TARDIS cardigan from Her Universe will be available on Cyber Monday, aka December 2nd. I have only one thing to say upon seeing it:

Nielsen has long been the expert on audience demographics, the standard data provider that the entire television industry depends upon. So it behooves them to move with the times, and early this year, Nielsen announced that it would indeed be figuring out a way to count views when the audience was not using their old-timey television to catch the newest episode of Teen Wolf. We know now that they've found a way and will be implementing it. Eventually.

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No cable, no problem. The rumors that Comcast is going to let you pay for HBO like you pay for Netflix are true. Comcast is now the first company to let you have HBO without being trapped in a basic cable plan.

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Drone operators often kill their targets from a continent away, but studies suggest that even thousands of miles of distance cannot mitigate war's devastating psychological effects. But just wait until you hear how researchers propose preventing PTSD, alcohol abuse and thoughts of suicide in drone operators.

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