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AHHH LOVE IT. Snaps to Newsweek for being so freaking clever. And who is the B impersonator? He’s a Barackstar. (Sorry, had to say it.)
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where carrie bradshaw learned her stuff.
All the way back in 1986, Newsweek magazine, in an article titled “Too Late for Prince Charming?” reported on a study that said single women over the age of 40 were more likely to be killed by a terrorist than get married. This video is the response to that statistic:
There are so many pieces of wonderfully terrible advice in this video that I really just have to let the video speak for itself (although, a small stuffed animal? Really?!). Even if you think you have gained enough information to make your head explode halfway through, please make sure to watch the video through to the end; the last piece of advice is undoubtedly the best.
[Posted by Madeline]
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newest boomers have obama to thank.
Oh boy. Or, girl. This week’s Newsweek explores the possibility of an Obama Baby Boom and the opportunity for “that’s what she said” jokes alone makes the article HI-larious. Let’s start with the lede:
The theory is almost too perfect to be true. Barack Obama the son of politically progressive parents, was born Aug. 4, 1961—almost nine months to the day after John F. Kennedy was elected to the White House. Is it possible Obama was conceived on that historic night?
Um. Ew? I freely admit to being borderline obsessed with the President-elect and his family (What? No puppy until the Spring? Nooo!) but there are some things that I really just don’t need to know. While Newsweek offers little (okay, nothing) in the way of statistical proof and only anecdotal evidence for the possible Obama Baby Boom, the term “Obama Baby” has already been defined by UrbanDictionary.com as “a child conceived after Obama was proclaimed President by way of celebratory sex.” Want to hear it used in a sentence?
“On election night, my husband had managed to down a bottle and a half of wine in celebration and he was all about making an ‘Obama election baby’,” Abbi Whitaker, 32, of Reno, Nev., told NEWSWEEK. “He thought it would be the coolest thing.”
Mr. Whitaker, I assure you that you will be the only one to consistently consider that “the coolest thing.” I’ve had the unfortunate experience, not once but twice, to hear about the conception of close friends from the conceivers themselves. BELIEVE ME, there is nothing cool about it, no matter how crazy (ew) the story may be. Your friends will not think so, your child will not think so, and his or her friends REALLY will not think so.
Speaking of things that are not cool, Eric Davis of Minneapolis told Newsweek that during one of their election night celebrations, “my wife accidentally said, ‘Oh, Obama!'” Awkward . . . Feel free to put post-election euphoria to good use and get busy but it’s still important to say the right name.
Is the Obama Baby Boom a real phenomenon? Although demographic experts and physicians expect “a healthy increase” in births we won’t know for sure for another nine months.
[Posted by Madeline]
six words to change the world. 