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...subtlest, the food featured on the site - gathered from various submissions or happened-upon sickening recipes - can be as gentle a dietary poke as a two-foot tower of oreo creams in between two pieces of oreo cookie. It's like a chocolatey metaphor for America being way-beyond double-stuffed. But before you're even ready to take in the atrocities of 7 lb. breakfast burritos and the jawdropping Turbaconucken (yes, a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, all wrapped in bacon), you're exposed. And it will haunt you. As will the deep-fried candy bars...
...Chute received the puck at the left post but couldn’t poke it past Ladiges’ pads. Just over a minute later, Vaillancourt fed her linemate a long pass and sent Chute on a breakaway. Good defensive pressure and a body save from Ladiges halted the opportunity...
...There are some people in Hollywood who get the joke, but most just seem to hate it, and wish we would go away - which of course makes all this that much funnier," he says, noting that the Razzies are more a collective condemnation of a lazy industry than a poke at a handful of bad films. "For these movies to fail at this level, with these sorts of budgets and promotional efforts and this much talent involved" takes special effort, Wilson notes. "You look at a movie like Indiana Jones 4 and it's such a spectacular train wreck that...
...game against the Saints, Ford Field fans started chanting "We want Joey" at New Orleans third-string quarterback Joey Harrington, who frustrated hoards of Lions faithful during his four-year train wreck as Detroit's starter from 2002 to 2005. Now even Detroit's former whipping boy can poke fun at his ex-team. "It's weird to think I was here in the heyday," deadpanned Harrington, who finished with a sickly 18-37 record as the Lions' quarterback. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments of the year...
...Christmas, the nation's stores are overwhelmed with harried shoppers buying last-minute gifts: books and pearl necklaces and even Uggs, those ubiquitous suede boots. On Tuesday, however, New Orleans' largest shopping mall was eerily empty. There was hardly a soul inside Saks Fifth Avenue to sniff fragrances or poke at the $95 stripped ties at nearby Brooks Brothers. Even the super-sized signs promising 75% discounts failed to lure customers into another upscale men's boutique up the street...