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Early Addition: You're Worthless If You Don't Get Champagne Delivered By Drone
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Ben Yakas
Published May 16, 2014
Modified May 16, 2014
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Published May 16, 2014
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- Champagne delivered by skydiver is so 2013—real players have a drone deliver their champagne.
- Men can now access Lulu, the app that let's women rate the scumbags they've dated.
- Alec Baldwin's disembodied voice was booed at the Philharmonic last night.
- Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are reportedly getting married in Italy because West thinks "that our daughter North was conceived here among the Renaissance masterpieces."
- Why would anyone hang an elephant?!?
- San Francisco warned of Godzilla attacks by electronic traffic signs.
- A woman was fatally struck by a train in the Bronx during rush hour this morning.
- An entire family has survived being hit by lightning during a storm in Germany.
- The NYPD is sending a small police escort for NYU grads.
- Jon Hamm is a diehard Cardinals who apparently despises the Mets.
- And finally, if you're going to wake a pig up from its nap, you better do so with a cookie:
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