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AeroMexico Offers DNA Discounts
A huge number of people who dislike Mexicans don’t know they have Mexican DNA. AeroMexico offers “inner discounts” because “there are no borders within us.” Brilliant ad! Watch the commercial: Related...
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The Great Jimmy Page Robbie Williams London Times Hoax
This is an amusing, ridiculous, and absurd story. But more importantly, it’s an example of how a story can grow from a snowflake into an avalanche. Particularly when the media is interested in nothing...
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The Political Prank That Ensnared the Wall Street Journal
Laura Loomer is a far-right media provocateur known for shambolic publicity stunts. Her toxic racial rhetoric has resulted in her removal from a number of social media platforms, and she hasn’t taken...
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Confessions of a Rock and Roll Poser
Last autumn, Jered “Threatin” Eames staged the most alienating, least explicable rock tour stunt since the Sex Pistols hit the deep south. He recently broke his silence. “The Great Heavy Metal Hoax” by...
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Joey Skaggs Remembers His 1994 National Enquirer Hoax
Note to Jeff Bezos: Take a page from me and screw the National Enquirer! In 1994, after The New York Times Magazine published John Tierney’s article, Falling For It, about my Dog Meat Soup hoax, the...
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Forget About Getting a Table Here
Update January 25, 2018: Vice Video: How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant. Thanks Frank. The London restaurant so exclusive that no one could ever get a reservation. H/t Bob O’Keefe. Bonus:...
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Deepfake: AI-Assisted Porn
Hey! What’s my face doing on a porn star’s body? Everything You Need To Know About The Face-Swap Technology That’s Sweeping The Internet (And Getting Banned Everywhere) Digg February 8, 2018 Gal...
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Culture Jamming Godfather Gets a Fitting Tribute
In 1981, Don Joyce launched Over the Edge, a weekly program on KPFA in Berkeley comprised of cut-up tapes and surrealist social commentary. By the time he passed in 2015, he had been a core member of...
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Cold as I.C.E.
Art Collective Indecline and cartoonist Rob Rogers writ large. Bay Area Protests Trump’s Child Detention Policy with Billboard and Projection Hyperallergic by Benjamin Sutton June 21, 2018 A...
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Alan Abel, RIP
Better check the coffin! Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94 by Margalit Fox The New York Times Sept. 17, 2018 Credit Larry Stoddard/Associated Press Alan Abel, a...
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“Hippie Bus Tour to Queens” Remembered 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago, artist/activist Joey Skaggs took sixty hippies on a sight-seeing bus tour to suburban Queens. He called this satirical performance his “cultural exchange tour”. Read his story here on...
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From ElaraPictures on Instagram, a hilarious Mash-up of Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate testimony on September 28 2018 With Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction. Watch the video Related posts: Gender Studies...
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Meet the Man Who Invented the Roach Hormone Miracle Cure!
ART OF THE PRANK movie Blu-rays with 38 minutes of never before seen Extras and DVDs are now available! **Use coupon code “ABRACADABRA” to magically get $5.00 off of each disc purchased.** Watch a...
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This Rascal’s Obituary is a Collaborative Literary Masterpiece
As a fitting tribute to the prank-loving Rick Stein on the occasion of his death, his daughter Alex Walsh took some creative liberties in his honor. Then things got really ridiculous, swelling into a...
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Deep Fakes: Down the Horrifying Rabbit Hole
On the topic of our tenuous collective relationship with the concept formerly known as “truth,” this examination of “deep fakes,” high-tech simulated video recordings of people you recognize doing...
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AeroMexico Offers DNA Discounts
A huge number of people who dislike Mexicans don’t know they have Mexican DNA. AeroMexico offers “inner discounts” because “there are no borders within us.” Brilliant ad! Watch the commercial: Related...
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The Great Jimmy Page Robbie Williams London Times Hoax
This is an amusing, ridiculous, and absurd story. But more importantly, it’s an example of how a story can grow from a snowflake into an avalanche. Particularly when the media is interested in nothing...
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The Political Prank That Ensnared the Wall Street Journal
Laura Loomer is a far-right media provocateur known for shambolic publicity stunts. Her toxic racial rhetoric has resulted in her removal from a number of social media platforms, and she hasn’t taken...
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Confessions of a Rock and Roll Poser
Last autumn, Jered “Threatin” Eames staged the most alienating, least explicable rock tour stunt since the Sex Pistols hit the deep south. He recently broke his silence. “The Great Heavy Metal Hoax” by...
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Joey Skaggs Remembers His 1994 National Enquirer Hoax
Note to Jeff Bezos: Take a page from me and screw the National Enquirer! In 1994, after The New York Times Magazine published John Tierney’s article, Falling For It, about my Dog Meat Soup hoax, the...
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