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Extra, Extra: Of Course Star Wars Condom Wrappers Are Just Conceptual
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Jen Chung
Published Apr 9, 2012
Modified Apr 9, 2012
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- Conceptual Star Wars condom wrappers: As Triumph would say, "Return of the Dorks."
- Remember, FASTRACK on the 1, 2, and 3 lines starts tonight!
- Since George Steinbrenner is, you know, dead, Joe Girardi is not on the hot seat.
- People in Hong Kong take classes in... laughter.
- Riggins! Taylor Kitsch bought some land in Texas.
- Now that Facebook is buying Instagram for $1 billion, here's how five famous pictures look Instagrammed.
- Yay, there's a Katniss Everdeen Barbie!
- Easter Bunny was high.
- Rush Limbaugh's show was dropped from a Philadelphia radio station.
- Why were Jennifer Love Hewitt's boobs Photoshopped to be smaller in ads for her new hooker show?
- You can watch the entire episode of "Finding Your Roots" where Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon find out they are distantly related.
- And here's a bit of Tim Tebow at his big Easter event:
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