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“So upset with your lack of mozzarella stick ordering. Only seven orders? For real?” — COMMENTER TACOBELLCOW AT GAWKER.COM isn’t
impressed with Caity Weaver, the Gawker reporter who set out on a marathon mozzarella-stick-eating challenge to test the validity of TGI Friday’s $10 Endless Appetizers promotion. Weaver sat in a Brooklyn, N.Y., TGI Friday’s for 14 hours, with the sole intention of eating as many orders of one appetizer as she could. At the end of the day, she ordered seven plates, consuming 32 mozzarella sticks — only a little more than two an hour.
“I feel that for example Beef Stroganoff is more American than Russian.” — A CIA EMPLOYEE, ACCORDING TO DAILYDOT.COM, in an anonymous
cafeteria complaint. Investigative journalism group MuckRock obtained dining comments from the agency’s cafeteria through Freedom of Information Act requests. Other complaints include, “When an item is in the title of the Jazz Salad, please make an effort to include this item in the actual salad,” and “Why can’t there be nicer food handlers?”
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“The man(duck)hunt is on for a giant inflatable rubber duck that disappeared overnight while floating on China’s Nanming River.” — ERIC ZERKEL AT WEATHER.COM is confused by the
mysterious disappearance of a 59-foot rubber duck. Created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the floating yellow behemoth, which weighs a literal ton, vanished during a week of torrential rain and flooding. “It disappeared right in front of me in several seconds,” said Yan Jianxin, a coordinator of the duck exhibit on the Nanming River, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“Hey, Congress, your Wikipedia edits are showing.” — TIM MAK AT THEDAILYBEAST.COM
introduces the latest Twitter account aimed at government transparency: @CongressEdits. Launched July 8 by software developer Ed Summers, the account tweets out information every time a Wikipedia article is edited from a computer with an IP address from inside a congressional building. So far, edits have been made to the page about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the biography of former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, Choco Tacos and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
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