Early Addition: You're Worthless If You Don't Get Champagne Delivered By Drone

Ben Yakas

Published May 16, 2014

Modified May 16, 2014

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Ben Yakas

Published May 16, 2014

Modified 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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