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Extra, Extra: Ron Swanson Reveals All In Hilarious Reddit AMA
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Ben Yakas
Published Aug 31, 2012
Modified Aug 31, 2012
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- Ron F#cking Swanson did an AMA today, and revealed the best way to cook bacon and eggs: "In an iron skillet, over a fire of oak at your cabin."
- The NY Times delivers this priceless dispatch from the Internet Cat Film Festival.
- In case you had any doubts, Mayor Bloomberg is reportedly a very good tipper.
- Bryan Cranston and Catherine O'Hara are coming to 30 Rock as Kenneth's family.
- Instaporn is the hot new craze that's sweeping the nation.
- Canadian maple syrup heist worth up to $30 million.
- A toddler in China wouldn't give up the microphone during karaoke, which somehow led to two men being hacked to death with a meat cleaver.
- Sky diver survives 13,000 foot fall after parachute fails.
- Shia LaBeouf is so committed to being a serious actor, he sent his sex tapes to Lars Von Trier to get a role.
- There is a Redditor conspiracy theory that Obama's team planted some of the questions in his AMA this week.
- And finally, these little Tasmanian Devils get their first check up:
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