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From Jokes to Terror: The Rise of the Scary Clown
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Ellie Regio - You Came In My Ass (1972)
Ellie Regio, the funky '70s disco diva, didn't always dazzle audiences with her sparkling sequin dresses and infectious groove on the dance floor. Before her rise to stardom, she spent her days as a car hop at Benny's Drive-In Diner, a retro-chic eatery nestled in the heart of a bustling California boardwalk, where she perfected her signature moves while delivering burgers and shakes on roller skates.
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Frank Zappa teaches Steve Allen to play The Bicycle
Aired March 3, 1963
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NYC Chicken Shop Replaces Cashier With Woman in Philippines On Zoom
The Zoom meeting info and password is written on a note facing customers.
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Alabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolen
A radio station in Alabama was forced to go silent after thieves stole its 200-foot radio tower and other equipment from a building.
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‘Fish Bandit’ arrested for taping fish to ATM machines
His Instagram bio: “Live, laugh, tape fish on ATMs.”
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A man blew up his apartment while trying to kill a single cockroach with way too much insecticide, police say
The explosion shattered a balcony window and left the man with minor injuries, per the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun.
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Dallas woman making her second chance at life count
Rhonda Willingham’s story is one of heartbreak, incarceration, disappointments, and redemption. “I made a promise to God. When I was on the street, that if he brought me out, I would serve him until the day I did in doing so. The Lord has blessed me. He showed me why I went through that fiery furnace that I went through because he had a job for me to do,” Willingham said.
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Kevin Spacey Tells UK Court He Had “Somewhat Intimate” Relationship With Alleged Victim
UPDATE, 3.30am PT: Kevin Spacey told a jury his relationship with one of his alleged victims was “somewhat intimate,” as he took the witness box during his UK trial at Southwark Crown C…
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Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony
Most of the changes on the Sega Retro wiki every day are tiny things, like single-line tweaks to game details or image swaps. Early Monday morning, the site got something else: A 47MB, 272-page PDF full of confidential emails, notes, and other documents from inside a company with a rich history, a strong new competitor, and deep questions about what to do next.
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Recyclers reject most plastic. This company turns it into furniture.
Packaging for lotion, toothpaste, and makeup is a recycling disaster. But ReFactory, a UK-based family business, has a complex process to give it a new life. It makes plywood-like plastic boards and turns them into furniture, planters, and more.
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$3M stolen lottery ticket winner forgives worker accused of claiming prize
The victim of a stolen $3 million Mega Millions lottery ticket scheme from January, who officials said had his lottery ticket claimed by the convenience store clerk of the store he bought it at, said he wishes “the best” for the accused cashier on Friday. Paul Little, a Lakeville man who works as a diesel mechanic on marine engines for fishing vessels, spoke to the media when he claimed his $3 million prize at 9:30 a.m. on June 30, at Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters in Dorchester.
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Only Tom Cruise can save Hollywood from a summer of box office bombs
Success at the summer box office this year has so far been mostly Mission: Impossible. So much for the $2.3 billion “Avatar: The Way of Water” raked in last Christmas — movie theaters are back to being an armory of high-profile bombs. This weekend, wobbly Warner Bros.’ “The Flash” dropped a staggering 73% in its second week to a worldwide total of just $210 million. A more-than-50% decline for an expensive DC Comics superhero film spells trouble.
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Guillermo del Toro: ‘I Don’t Fear Artificial Intelligence. I Fear Natural Stupidity’
“Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio,” the roving, ever-expanding, 8,000-square-foot exhibit dedicated to the art of making Guillermo del Toro and co-director Mark Gustafson’s meticulous Oscar-winning stop-motion film, has made its way from New York’s Museum of Modern Art to the Portland Art Museum in Oregon.
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Only VIPs can drink alcohol in Paris 2024 venues
VIPs can quaff champagne to their hearts' delight while watching the Paris Olympics, but the average fan will have to make do with soft drinks and water after organizers decided not to seek an exemption to a law prohibiting the sale of alcohol in stadiums.
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A carpenter saved his whole life to fund college scholarships and helped 33 strangers go to school for free
Four years ago, one of the happiest days of Kira Conard’s life carried a cloud of sadness. At a high school graduation party, her friends were buzzing with excitement about their next steps. Many were going to college, but the aspiring therapist in Des Moines, Iowa, scarcely had the heart to tell them she couldn’t go. Her family just couldn’t afford it.
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‘Price is Right’ contestant dislocates shoulder while jubilantly celebrating game win
“The Price is Right” got a little ‘bonkers’ last week when a highly energetic contestant named Henry dislocated his shoulder while celebrating a game win. The animated contestant was tasked with guessing the right price to win a trip to Hawaii during a game called “Bonkers,” which he successfully won on his first try.
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Fabio says men in modern romance books are too 'soft' and 'woke' now, but readers disagree
Have romance novel characters become, well, too romantic? Fabio Lanzoni, the Italian American actor and model popular known as just Fabio who famously flaunted his muscular body on the covers of scores of romance novels, thinks so.
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Why Reddit is destined to turn to crap
Users are facing down the web forum's IPO plans, but Big Tech's attract-and-extract cycle can't be stopped.
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One man’s nearly 40-year, 8-bit quest to finish his teenage Commodore 64 RPG
There are stories that some of us, at a certain stage of adulthood, should never hear. Not if we value our time or our storage space. I regret to inform you that Mike Brixius, on his RavenWolf Retro Tech channel, offers just such a story about his quest to finish his own Commodore 64 CRPG from 1984. He will be able to do it, too, because he kept all the disks, tapes, notes, and hand-documented assembly code print-outs ever since his teenage project.
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