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Food Logic Volume 5: Coffee + Maple Syrup
Premise 1: Pancakes go good with maple syrup.Premise 2: Pancakes are a breakfast food.Premise 3: Coffee is a breakfast food. Conclusion: Coffee goes good with maple syrup. OK I’m serious about this one. Sure, Starbucks and Second Cup have offered Maple Lattes before, but those use sugary fake syrup. Similarly, Aunt Jemima’s maple-tinted racist-stereotype-recommended corn…
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Your Brain Will Betray You
People are dumb. If they hear something that is unclear or ambiguous, they will hear whatever they want to hear, or whatever they are told to hear. And I don’t mean they’ll interpret “nice shoes” as a genuine comment when it was meant sarcastically; I mean people will actually hear completely different words depending on…
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One Hundred Original Ideas for Horror Movies (#25 – 30)
25. Ginger Snaps Red Dawn Dawn of the Red: A mysterious signal from space causes the people of Earth to have an irrational hatred of people with red hair. As the ginger holocaust forces the gingervitis-infected underground, they begin to breed an army of ginger kids trained to set fire to their foes…with their minds.…
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