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...Puff Daddy (now Diddy, formerly known as P. Diddy, Puffy D, Puff the Magic Dragon and “Steve”) and his pop gangster peers became infamous for completely recycling old songs (by the Police, and others) without much attempt at refashioning, leading the satirical weekly The Onion to suggest that Puff Daddy’s next single would consist of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” “in its entirety,” with no rapping whatsoever. But for every beat-jacker, there exist producers like...
...ONION RADIO NEWS The 1-min. satirical segments written in the style of the Onion's parody print version are silly but amusing and blessedly concise...
...floor of a three-family building, he'd leaned over his balcony rail to tell me it wasn't safe and that I should come up. Sure enough, minutes later, five protesters sprint around the corner to his street and try to leap a barbed wire fence into an onion garden, quickly followed by 13 Nepalese riot police in full battle gear. One of the fleeing demonstrators, with a student's lanky hair and in a white shirt, catches the bottom of his jeans on the wire and falls, tangled, to the floor. Seven or eight of the police, crowding...
Then why can we so easily walk down the street while engrossed in a deep conversation? Why can we chop onions while watching Jeopardy? "We, along with quite a few others, have been focused on exactly this question," says Hal Pashler, psychology professor at the University of California at San Diego. It turns out that very automatic actions or what researchers call "highly practiced skills," like walking or chopping an onion, can be easily done while thinking about other things, although the decision to add an extra onion to a recipe or change the direction in which you're walking...
...BARRY BONDS TOOK STEROIDS, REPORTS EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER WATCHED BASEBALL" --Fake news headline from THE ONION...