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Everyone has a disaster tale about Thanksgiving travel, a burnt bird, or drunk uncle Wally who tends to get a little too handsy after one too many hot toddies. Whoever shares their best story with us wins a prize!  Whoever shares the worst story wins a either a check for $50 or a bottle of Wild Turkey (we’re talking one of their top-shelf brands) (U.S. residents and over 21 only for the booze, Standard Contest Rules apply). After all the drama around the turkey, you’re going to need it.

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Question of the day:  If someone is addicted to eating Thanksgiving leftovers, can he quit cold turkey?

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I don’t feel like working (it’s a holiday week).  This is just to keep you entertained.  They also have their own you tube channel as well.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A group of volunteer Santa Claus “elves” in Alaska’s frigid interior is determined to save a popular holiday letter service featuring the North Pole‘s most beloved icon.

The group is looking to counter a decision by the U.S. Postal Serviceto discontinue a program begun in 1954 in the small town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to “Santa Claus, North Pole” each year.  MORE

this is something to think about…

In a case that would have been impossible even five years ago, bad-girl rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel by a fashion designer for allegedly slamming the woman on Twitter.

• As technology evolves at breakneck speed, thorny legal issues are emerging, experts say
• People are being sued for what they post on social-networking sites such as Twitter
• Some of the legal issues involve privacy, defamation and content ownership
• The law is “at least five years behind technology as it is developing,” legal expert says

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Free movies? Whole, completely free movies? Movies you’ve actually heard of, too?

Seems so, and if you like your flicks to be vintage, this is definitely for you. Classic movies streamed for nothing.

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No it might be worth a million, but's still not a boat

A MARQUE, Texas – A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston.

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Pretty cool story from the local paper of all things.

While backpacking Fernando Martinez-Pechs had already faced his fair share of bumps in the road when he found himself strapped for cash in Uyuni, Bolivia, last summer. He and three friends, fellow travelers he had met a few days earlier, set out to find an ATM. But one thing stood between Martinez-Pecsh and the money he needed to survive for the next few days: the local ATM was broken, and repair was still three days away.

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As anyone who regularly watches “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central can attest, the eccentricity of Fox News’ Glenn Beck has provided “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart withheaps of comedic fodder over the past couple of years. But in all the time Stewart has devoted to jabbing the controversial conservative talker, never has he launched into a full-blown impression of Beck like he did on Thursday night.

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This article was from the summer but I was surprised to say the least when I saw him entering the reality tv realm.    He was everywhere in the 90′s and then he just kinda dropped off …like his pal Jean-Claude Van Damm.

When we first heard that Steven Seagal was a deputized police officer in New Orleans, we were amused. When we heard someone was going to make a reality series out of it, we were baffled. When the thing actually happened, we were like, “Okay, somebody’s messing with us right?” But no, a series titled “Steven Seagal: Lawman” will air starting this December on A&E. There’s already been a lawsuit filed against the network by two producers who are seeking credit and compensation, but if we were them we would stay far, far away from this thing, because it just seems like a bad idea. Actor, singer, and martial artist Steven Seagal enforcing the law? Here are a few reasons why this might not work out:  READ MORE