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Early Addition: Rich Kids Share €107K Bar Tab Receipt With Grateful Internet
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Ben Yakas
Published Aug 16, 2012
Modified Aug 16, 2012
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Ben Yakas
Published Aug 16, 2012
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- A New Jersey early childhood academy is holding a Bruce Springsteen look-alike contest for babies.
- You know you want to fill out the NY Post's annual sex survey, so just go do it and hope that Andrea Peyser will write a column about you.
- There was a Wallaby on the loose in Orange County: "He seemed to be purposely going somewhere," said Rebecca Vives, Noah's Ark II co-owner. "We don't know where."
- THIS JUST IN: NY Times reports that Madison Avenue is trendy.
- Sure, kids may think oral sex is perfectly safe, but only if you think getting lots of STDs is safe.
- Larry Seabrook blames his mistress for all his financial wrong-doings.
- That Dirty Projectors film Hi Custodian will premiere at Landmark Sunshine on September 6th.
- Cops are looking for Darren Hicks, who is wanted for 11 armed robberies throughout Queens.
- Zoe Saldana will play Nina Simone in the long-awaited movie biopic.
- People are terrible and proud of it: some rich kids Instagrammed their 107,524 Euro tab in St. Tropez.
- And finally, is there anything better than opening a drawer and finding four kitties sleeping inside?
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