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- ESPN is very excited that Tim Tebow threw a football into a garbage can from 25 feet away.
- Watch this video right now for some lunchtime laughs: a "skateboarding rabbi" took shrooms, got drunk, went on The Price Is Right, was picked to be a contestant, and then "lied to Drew Carey's melting face."
- Nothing makes a newscaster crack up like a farting Rhino.
- An off-duty cop exchanged gunfire with some carjackers in the Bronx.
- Poor Schenectady is down to its last $75,000.
- FBI is investigating claims that Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera hired her unqualified former lover to run a Bronx nonprofit she controlled, and then used the group to pay for romantic outings.
- Man bites snake that bit him in "revenge attack."
- Check out President Obama's self-parody, which he wrote at Harvard under the pen name “Baroque Yo' Mama.”
- Presidential candidates' portraits made of beef jerky...with bonus making-of video!
- Police found a large amount of child porn at the home of a smirking man from Long Island.
- And finally, this parrot lets the cat know who is boss:
Published Aug 23, 2012
Modified Aug 23, 2012
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