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Bob Probert

This is the photo that is accompanying this New York Times article about deceased NHL enforcer Bob Probert. That kid's face needs to be a new Internet photoshop meme.

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Mubarak's Pinstripe Suit

The pinstripes on Mubarak's suit actually spells out his name. Sure, he's a jerk who paid for this by stealing his people's money, but man this is some serious SWAG. I foresee him trading in his pinstripes for prison stripes in his future.

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Best Charlie Sheen Story Ever

A 1996 Sports Illustrated blurb mentioned that Charlie Sheen wanted to catch a home run ball so at an Angels game he bought out 2,615 seats in the left-side of the outfield for just him and three of his friends.

"I didn't want to crawl over the paying public," said Sheen, the hell-raising star of Hot Shots! Part Deux and other cinematic landmarks, in explaining why he bought up the 2,615 seats. "I wanted to avoid the violence." Alas, no one homered and the Sheen crew went ball-less.

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Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man: Looks retarded, acts retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cars, autistic, sho', not retarded. You got Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump: Slow yes, retarded maybe, but he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping pong competition, that ain't retarded. Peter Sellers, Being There: Infantile yes, retarded no. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, I Am Sam: Went full retard, went home empty handed.

- Wisdom of Kirk Lazarus

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A.O. Scott's Oscar Formula

Love Scott:

I don’t know if I’d go that far, but the movie does have the advantages of 1) being more an actor’s movie than its rival, with an established cast of non-American thespians; 2) being a costume drama set during the rise of Nazism; 3) being the story of someone struggling with a disability; and 4) being a hit with critics and audiences alike. To put it in mathematical if perhaps cynical terms: Hitler + handicap + Shakespeare + $100 million = best picture.

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