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• ROCK ON, REG, WHEREVER YOU ARE

  Reg Presley, lead singer for the Troggs, has died. He sang lead on the immortal Wild Thing, a bulletproof three-chorder that was performed by every garage band ever. It was also a fixture on the Rock Bottom Remainders' playlist; we were probably the only band in history that regularly [...]
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• BREAKING NEWS

  French women wear pants

  Key quote:
  In 1892 and 1909 the rule was amended to allow women to wear trousers, "if the woman is holding a bicycle handlebar or the reins of a horse".

  (Thanks to Janice Gelb)

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• TODAY'S EPISODE OF GUESS THE STATE

  Brought to you by Wal-Mart
  
  (Thanks to Unholy Slacker, JD, Jeff Meyerson, and WVPlantman)

  Related news item here

  (Thanks to manual tomato)

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• A PICTURE PAINTS A THOUSAND WORDS

  All of them obscene.

  (Thanks to Jeffrey P. Brown)

  Vaguely-related news item here

  (Thanks to Jon Harris)

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• CHEATING AT SKEEBALL?

  Mom Pulled Gun at Conn. Chuck E. Cheese's

  (Thanks to Jon Harris, Jay Brandeis, and The Perts)

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• WHATEVER WOULD WE DO WITHOUT SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

  Pubic hair grooming injuries jumped five-fold between 2002 and 2010, according to a recent analysis of ER visits by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco.
  
  (Thanks to The Perts) [...]
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• THINGS GUYS THINK ABOUT

  What happens when a ping pong ball moving at supersonic speed hits a paddle?

  (Thanks to Claire Martin)

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• IT WAS ASKING FOR IT

  Man shoots self in groin with flare gun

  (Thanks to Ralph)

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• PRIORITIES

  Man stole snake, left child at pet expo

  (Thanks to W. von Papineau)

  Incredibly, this did not happen in Miami.

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• STRUMPDATE

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