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Though many seemed to think that the Internet would serve solely as a vessel for pornography and scams, those skeptics clearly underestimated the power of cats. Yes, our feline friends have become such web celebs (”welebs”?) that they’ve begun to take on certain human characteristics. For proof, we recommend checking out Kitty Stampede’s listicle of [...]

With his last few albums Jay-Z has really made the transition from being a famous rapper to becoming a full-fledged cultural icon. He’s even got his own hand symbol, like, um… Well, we can’t actually think of any people with their own instantly recognizable hand gestures (help us out commenters), but plenty of other celebrities [...]

Today, November 3rd, is National Sandwich Day, because it’s the birthday of the man who created the food item, John Montagu (1718-1792), the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (seriously). Supposedly, Montagu invented the food during a marathon 24-hour gambling session during which he wanted to be able to eat with only one hand. The solution he [...]

Obviously, the famous Got Milk? campaign is one of the most effective advertising slogans ever, all the more so because of its meme compatibility–that is, anyone can make a “Got x?” shirt/poster/sign and people will get the reference. The California Milk Processor Board is hardly the first advertiser to harness the power of question slogans, [...]

There’s a great deal of perverse pleasure to be taken from ruining the endings of movies. That pleasure is heightened when the film in question takes great pains to provide a twist ending, like, say, Fight Club, Planet of the Apes, Citizen Kane, Soylent Green, Psycho, or the office favorite The Usual Suspects. All these [...]

In principle we disapprove of eating domestic animals. In fact, until our confused cow Chester died when we were eight, we refused to eat beef. Dogs, horses and turtles, meanwhile, are still very much off-limits. However, on occasion we come across an adorable little cutie who’s so sweet  we just want to eat her or [...]

Playing with the porous border between fiction and documentary has become commonplace in today’s cinema (see Bruno, Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead), but how long has the trend been developing. Browsing The Onion A.V. Club’s listicle of 18 Documentaries That Blur the Line Between Truth and Fiction, they reach all the way back to Nanook [...]

Today, in addition to being Canada Day, is Build a Scarecrow Day, which strikes us as rather region-specific national holiday, but there you go. Of course, now that we’re thinking about it, just because they’re called scarecrows doesn’t mean they can only be used to scare crows. To prove our point, we’ve rounded up these [...]

Though we’ve had conflicting reports, at least one source claims that today is UFO Day (others say July 8, the date of the original Roswell, New Mexico sighting, others say July 2 for no specific reason). At any rate, since everybody is so vague on the whole unidentified flying object thing (something we’ve noted before), [...]

Courtroom scenes are notoriously difficult to pull off, and for every Anatomy of a Murders there are hundreds of Liar Liars. Thankfully, The Onion’s A.V. Club has sifted through the worst and come up with a very entertaining listicle of 18 Legally Unlikely Courtroom Scenes, our favorite of which would have to be this one [...]