All stories published by The Hairpin on November 10, 2010

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All Stories published by The Hairpin on November 10, 2010

Nov 10, 2010

Restore Your Virginity the 17th-Century Way

by Lili Loofbourow

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Nov 10, 2010

Streaking Teenage Girls Ruin Football Game

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Nov 10, 2010

Standing to Pee No Longer the Impossible Dream

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Nov 10, 2010

Meet 69-Year-Old DJ Mamy Rock

by Liz Colville

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Nov 10, 2010

Foreskin for the Face

Did you know that after a baby gets circumcised his discarded foreskin goes on to live a remarkable life of its own? For instance:

Cosmetics: Foreskins are used to make high-end skin creams. The skin products contain fibroblasts grown on the foreskin and harvested…

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Nov 10, 2010

Gay, Back in the Day

Another Fuck Yeah Tumblr we can get behind: Fuck Yeah Gay Vintage, featuring awesome old-school photos like “lesbian…

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Nov 10, 2010

Sally Jessy Raphael May Be Returning to Your Screen

by Liz Colville

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Nov 10, 2010

Marilyn Monroe’s Stuffing Recipe

by Liz Colville

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Nov 10, 2010

Search for Noah’s Ark Definitely Futile, Possibly Fatal

by Liz Colville

A man on an expedition to find the fictional — fictional, my man — Noah’s Ark has been missing since September 20. Donald Mackenzie, who hails from Scotland, has gone to the boat’s alleged…

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Nov 10, 2010

New Robyn! Body Talk Pt. 3!

My best friend Robyn’s Body Talk Pt. 3 partially leaked! Here’s three tracks! Let’s listen! Press them all at…

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Nov 10, 2010

Blue Valentine’s Hot Poster

by Liz Colville

Oooohweee! Also, here is the trailer if you have not yet seen it. [Via]

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Nov 10, 2010

Woman Liberated by Crop Circles

by Liz Colville

“To me, Regina’s crop-circle travel desire seemed odd, but who was I — someone who still vaguely imagined getting asked someday to be a celebrity judge at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam — to say anything? I didn’t want to change her…

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Nov 10, 2010

Why Did You Buy Me That Dot Com

“This is the world’s ugliest housewarming present. It’s a ceramic lighthouse [that] looks like it’s covered in broccoli. I’m 6'8” and 360 pounds. I’m not the … ceramic broccoli lighthouse kind of guy.”

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Nov 10, 2010

Drink Every Time You Hate School

by Liz Colville

A new study in England reports that teens who “did not feel school was a nice place to be” were twice as likely to drink as kids who liked school, and 2.5 times more likely to “engage in sexual activity.” The more they drank, the…

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Nov 10, 2010

“Why Is My Toilet Paper Shrinking?”

Toilet paper’s reaction to the recession has been to quietly, sneakily get smaller — but that…

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Nov 10, 2010

Women Not Actually Morons With Money

by Liz Colville

A theory that women are bad with money has long been perpetuated, partly because data shows that we spend more on things like clothing and “services” than men. But hello, men buy things! Including “services.”

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Nov 10, 2010

We Are Burning the Whales

Well, this is terrible. Scientists believe the reason so many whales have been covered with blisters recently is…

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Nov 10, 2010

The Queen’s Facebook Fans Can Also Type

by Liz Colville

The Queen of England joined Facebook this week, but in a bit of short-sightedness, her people failed to realize that “fans” don’t necessary have to be actually fans of the Queen and her peeps to become “fans” of her. So…

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Nov 10, 2010

Time to Check Back in With Mark Sanford

by Liz Colville

This morning the New York Times presented South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, he of Argentinian lady friend and public histrionics, with the time of day. And not just any time of day! The time of day that is…