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Read "That Viral Thing: Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat...
...then there is Boyle, the youngest of nine children, deprived of oxygen at birth, bullied in school, living what seemed an airless life with her cat, Pebbles. When she auditioned for a TV talent show in 1995--in the age of arrogance and affluence--she was scorned. So she sang karaoke at the pub and cared for her ailing mother until the day she died. "Mum was my life," Boyle said. "She was the one who said I should enter Britain's Got Talent. We used to watch it together. She thought I would win." Boyle arrived center stage, with...
...CAT STEVENS accuses Coldplay of plagiarism. CHRIS MARTIN denies changing name to Yusuf Islam...
...Saberi's detention had the hallmarks of a diplomatic cat-and-mouse game from the start. Iran watchers viewed it as a play by Iranian hard-liners to insert themselves into the debate over diplomatic engagement, giving anti-détente forces a tool to retard diplomatic progress because the U.S. would have to limit its engagement with Tehran as long as Saberi was held captive. "They can use her to sabotage any opening," said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Institution. (See pictures of the health-care system in Tehran...
...there's one problem: retelling the same joke 30 times isn't very funny. The playing-off music isn't always properly timed and the preceding video footage is almost always more entertaining than the cat (especially the one with the guest who passes out on Glen Beck). After you watch one video, the others are mildly entertaining at best. The Internet clearly disagrees with me here, what with the ongoing popularity of Rickrolling, but I stand by my opinion. Jokes are only funny when they're original, when they take you in a direction you didn't expect...