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Colorado Students Serve Classmates Pot Brownies as Prank
Just because it's legal to do it on your own time in Colorado, doesn't mean you can drug your whole class. Two University of Colorado students in Boulder thought it would be funny to bring pot brownies to a morning class to share. Then a bunch of people who ate them had freak-
outs. Suddenly it was not so fun.
Redditor Parent Makes Hilarious Family Christmas Cards
Aside from that time when a cousin, without a trace of irony, sent a family Christmas card that was a picture of all the kids dressed up in hunting camo holding rifles, these are the best family Christmas cards ever. They were made by Redditor TPThatsMe, and if you go to the post on Imgur, you can also watch a video for how each of the photos came into being.
The Best Twitter Responses to the Royal Baby News
Congratulations are in order for Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton. The two are expecting a baby. Good job, guys! As aways whenever there is any kind of news for anybody, Twitter has gone nuts. Here are the funniest tweets about #royalbaby. Enjoy!
McDonald’s Breakfast Burrito Ruined by Pesky Nose Ring
Good news/bad news. The good news is we found your nose ring!! The bad news is that it was in somebody's McDonald's breakfast burrito in Lawrenceville, Georgia. So we might not be eating another one of those for a while, because yuck.
Arizona School Uses Holding Hands as Punishment
Two Arizona teenagers faced a choice after getting into a fight at Westwood High in Mesa: They could either be suspended for nine days ... or hold hands in front of everybody. Obviously, they chose the latter, and now the school is catching flak for it.
Redditor Sells Wii U for Zero Profit, Saves Kid’s Christmas
Oh good! It may as well be December, which means we can cue the Christmas warm and fuzzies. Even though some people think of Reddit as a bastion of misogyny and smut, this story made the front page, and it's totally heartwarming and wholesome. It's about one Redditor with a heart of gold who saved Christmas for another Redditor's son.
Geek Out With This ‘Adventure Time’ and ‘Hobbit’ Mash-Up
This is pretty much amazing. Somebody painstakingly culled through all the 'Adventure Time' footage on YouTube and managed to make it into a trailer nearly identical to the one for 'The Hobbit.' Fine, be a jerk, don't believe us. Here's the original trailer for comparison...
The 10 Best Twitter Reactions to Lindsay Lohan’s (Millionth) Arrest
In case you missed it, Lindsay Lohan went to a Justin Bieber concert and then punched a lady in the face last night. Unsurprisingly, nobody is particularly surprised. That's not stopping people from tweeting up a storm about it though. We've culled through the massive stream of LiLo tweets pouring in and picked out our favorites. For a chuckle at the expense of everyone's favorite terrible Elizabe
See Angus T. Jones, Jake From ‘Two and a Half Men,’ Then and Now
Then: Angus T. Jones began working on TV series 'Two and a Half Men' at the age of eight. Since the show's premiere, he has played Jake Harper. During this time he has also worked on 'CSI,' 'Hannanh Montana Forever' and 'Due Date.'
Man Wins $250,000 on Live TV Ending Streak of Bad Luck
Maybe karma is real -- the man in this video, Bill Morgan, was in a car accident. Then he developed a heart condition. He was allergic to the medicine doctors gave him to treat it and had a heart attack. In fact, his heart stopped for 14 minutes, and he went into a coma. They were about to pull the plug on his life support when things turned around.
Man Pranks Entire Class With Fake Accent
Just to foster the spirit of trust necessary to make students feel comfortable in a learning environment, here's a video of a guy totally tricking his classmates about his identity for an entire semester!
The Funniest Black Friday Memes
It's Black Friday, and you know what that means -- hiding in your home away from the world while people desperately claw at each other's faces to buy a Wii U for their kid. The madness is not for everybody. Some of us like to eat cold turkey all day and wonder how a person could be so hungover. For those of us who would rather spend time with our TVs watching 'Star Wars' than rioting over discount