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Guy who fell asleep at work and got photobombed by his office becomes a sensational meme.

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Even with a few cups of coffee, it's sometimes impossible to hide fatigue at work. Drooping eyes, yawns, and stupid mistakes often given away exhaustion. Another obvious indicator that someone is too tired for the day is when he completely passes out and doesn't realize the entire office is posing for a photo, with him as the centerpiece.

Reddit user TheOrangeDuke shared the photo of himself, with the heading: "TIFU by falling asleep at the job on my second day." TIFU stands for Today I Fucked Up, but luckily, TheOrangeDuke didn't fuck up too bad. He still has his job, which, according to The Huffington Post, is an internship at a tech startup.

Realizing the beauty of the photo, redditors started photoshopping the picture. Here are the 10 best results of the poor intern taking a snooze.

1. He was in his own world.

2. Coming to theaters soon.

3. He's been asleep a long time.

4. Defending the Wall is tiring business.

5. Bad job to fall asleep on.

6. Hollywood can't stop re-making classic movies.

7. Sleepiness is contagious.

8. Very nice.

9. He has the power (of sleep).

10. Oh yeah. 

This dude better print out every single photoshop and arrange them all on his desk, starting with that glittery He-Man GIF. 


Watching the Associate Director of 'Grease: Live' call shots in time with the music will make your head spin.

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Carrie Havel, the Associate Director of last Sunday's musical spectacular Grease: Live, posted a behind-the-scenes video of how the magic was made in the control room. Syncing all her commands with the music, it was systematic, hydromatic, and ultramatic.

Here's how "Greased Lightning" looked to the folks at home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9s9_a1-oXo

Havel wrote on Facebook:

Here's a peek behind the curtain. Every shot in the show was designed and scripted by our director Alex Rudzinski. My job was to execute that plan. You hear me calling shot numbers and camera moves carefully coordinated with the music. My head stays in the script and Alex, to my right, keeps an eye on cameras to adjust framing and pacing. #GreaseLive

It will be your new favorite (accidental) rap song: 

A lot of people have asked what it means to be the Associate Director on a show like Grease Live. Here's a peek behind the curtain. Every shot in the show was designed and scripted by our director Alex Rudzinski. My job was to execute that plan. You hear me calling shot numbers and camera moves carefully coordinated with the music. My head stays in the script and Alex, to my right, keeps an eye on cameras to adjust framing and pacing. #GreaseLive

Posted by Carrie Havel on Monday, February 1, 2016

The 21 worst birthday wishes ever wished on Facebook.

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Facebook is turning 12 years old today. What better way to celebrate than to share the most cringeworthy birthday greetings people have posted on the site?

1. You know what guys, Grandma Paula is doing her best here.

2. Ed. Steve. What's the difference?

3. That moment your innocent Facebook post turns into a screenplay for Law and Order SVU.

4. Sorry, meant to type "Happy Birthday Garbage."

5. Mommy loves you, but not as much as she loves the bar.

6. The worst part is a woman wrote this.

7. Facebook told me to take all my money and wire it to a Nigerian Prince!!!! xoxoxo

8. So tired of people from other countries thinking Americans are dumb!

9. What do you do when you want to thank someone for wishing you a happy birthday, but they just called your mom a bitch?

10. Friends reboot: Rachel murders Ross over a Facebook post.

11. Someone started birthday drinking a little early.

12. Happy Birthday to my favorite accident!

13. Hey, this isn't Web MD. Oh God, what's 'H?' Is she going to be OK?

14. The best gift of all is family (drama.)

https://twitter.com/atinyangryman/status/653759080499023872

15. Don't they have Facebook in heaven?

16. Wouldn't it have been weirder if she said, "YES?"

17. This is probably Mark Zuckerberg's Dad.

18. They still have the same amount of Oscars.

19. Are you halfway to 30 or halfway through third grade math?

20. Some memories are better off forgotten, son.

21. Any cake is better than a Facebook message that just says, "HBD."

Related: Baker does wonderful job creating cake ordered by a mom’s autocorrect mistake.

Rupert Grint thinks Ron and Hermione would be divorced today, and J.K. Rowling sort of agrees.

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J.K. Rowling spent years building up the relationship between Ron and Hermione. From early on, readers knew the couple would end up together, but as time passes, more and more doubt arises over the magical couple. At the mini Harry Potter reunion at Universal Orlando, Rupert Grint shared with The Huffington Post that he doesn't believe Ron and Hermione would have stood the test of time.

When asked where they saw their characters now, Grint answered, "I would expect Ron has probably divorced Hermione already. I don't think that relationship would have done very well."

As if. Hermione would divorce Ron, not the other way around. Grint joked with interviewer Aaraon Sagers and Matt Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom, about how Ron would be bombing on Tinder. Grint added, "He's living on his own, in a little one-bedroom apartment. He hasn't got a job."

It goes without saying that Hermione would be managing her amazing career while simultaneously dating the now incredibly attractive Dean Thomas and Neville Longbottom.

Concerned for the welfare of this beloved coupled, Evanna Lynch—who played Luna Lovegood—stepped in and told Grint, "Don't say divorced. Say they've split up. They can reconcile." Grint agreed to limit himself to envisioning the couple as separated. Technically, the couple is likely still together since the Deathly Hallows epilogue takes place in 2017, so the pair still has some time left before parting ways.

Grint's comments add fuel to a fire started in a Wonderland interview with J.K. Rowling and Emma Watson in 2014. Rowling said that, "In some ways Hermione and Harry are a better fit," citing the Deathly Hallows scene between Harry and Hermione alone in the tent as a particularly potent moment.

Unfortunately, this never actually happened. 

However, at the end of the day, it was always Ron and Hermione. "For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron​," she said.

Well, it's over and done now. Except for in fan fiction, where surely somewhere out there Hermione and Harry are making out in the Gryffindor common room. While Neville watches. 

Research suggests that carbonated water can be almost as bad for your teeth as soda.

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It's a well-documented fact that soda is terrible for your health. Most pop drinks are laden with sugar and caffeine, in addition to the degrading affects of carbonation on tooth enamel. So, what are you going to do, drink water? Blegh! That's why mankind invented cool refreshing seltzer, for when you want excitement for your tongue without degrading the health of your body.

Illuminated by God's fizz.

Like all fun things, the illusion that seltzer is good for you—or at the very least neutral—is getting dispelled. Last September, the BBC compiled research on the effects of seltzer and debunked or confirmed people's worries about it. The good news is that seltzer is not hurting stomachs with all the widdle bubbles: 

The result is that water contains the weak acid, carbonic acid. If you gulp it down it can of course give you hiccups or indigestion. But what if you drink it at a more measured pace? Is there any truth in the idea that it harms your stomach?

Quite the reverse, it appears. In a small but double-blinded randomised trial, patients with frequent dyspepsia or constipation were assigned to drink either still or sparkling water for 15 days. Then they were given a series of tests. Both conditions improved in the people drinking sparkling water and showed no improvement in those drinking tap water.

Then in late January, Olga Khazan of The Atlantic asked this on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/olgakhazan/status/692072274594258945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Which started an Internet dentist bruhaha. Khazan parsed through the responses and did some research as well, and settled on this:

Unless they’re flavored with citric or other acids, seltzers tend to have more neutral pH values than soft drinks like Coke. While bottled flat water has a pH of about 7—or totally neutral—that of Perrier is about 5.5.

The flavorings, though, can bring the pH down, making the beverages even harsher on tooth enamel. One 2007 study in which researchers exposed human teeth to flavored sparkling waters for 30 minutes found the waters to be roughly as corrosive as orange juice. “It would be inappropriate to consider these flavored sparkling waters as a healthy dental alternative to other acidic drinks,” that study concluded.

Essentially, the carbonic acid mentioned in the tummy passage by the BBC is what changes the pH values in your seltzer, which in turn can degrade your teeth as much as something sugary like Mountain Dew or OJ. Carbonic acid tends to be much stronger in flavored seltzers, like lemon or lime, which is a double bummer because they're the tastiest.

There is hope, though! A dentist in Wilmington, Delaware, name Andrew Swiatowicz told Khazan this:

For an average, healthy person, carbonated, sugar-free beverages are not going to be a main cavity-causing factor... If you are at all concerned, you can always dilute the carbonated water with regular water, or even just swish with regular water after.

Swish after you spritz, and it's probably fine. Or read between the lines and understand that this dentist is really saying he's got bigger cavities to fill, so chill out about your mocktail.

The first no-nude 'Playboy' features Dree Hemingway as its Miss March, and you can see her butt.

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Remember how Playboy announced last year that it would be dropping nude photos from its magazine and website? It finally followed through today, publishing its first PG-13 issue since it debuted in 1953 with a centerfold of a topless Marilyn Monroe. What does that mean in frank terms? Boobs and privates are out, butts are still A-OK.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBXtL_DRmx-/?taken-by=playboy

The new centerfold model—actress Dree Hemingway, Ernest's great-granddaughter—still appears naked in the gorgeous, racy images, but with arms and legs artfully arranged to, um, keep something to the imagination. In a few images, her bottom is visible, but nothing more. (Sorry that news outlets are breaking this down so explicitly, Hemingway, but your body is officially newsworthy!)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBYQO3fxm3W/?taken-by=playboy

The images of Hemingway are apparently un-retouched, so at very least Playboy is still upholding its ideal of making other women feel inadequate. 

Police officer arrives at animal shelter to deal with a disturbance, leaves shelter with adorable puppy.

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Last Thursday, Officer Marcus Montgomery of the Fort Walton Beach Police Department responded to a routine call at the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), where he spotted a puppy he couldn't forget. When Montgomery laid eyes on the puppy, which had been abandoned behind the shelter the night before, he pretty much knew the dog was going home with him

As soon as I saw him, I said ‘don't bring him in here or else I will take him home right now.'

https://www.facebook.com/PanhandleAnimalWelfareSociety/photos/a.232687008707.168797.212120018707/10153925553078708/?type=3&theater

The nature of the dog's wintertime abandonment was what did Montgomery in:

The supervisor explained to me that he was left all alone in a box behind their building overnight. During that time, we were achieving 30 and below weather, so just thinking about him out there all alone, probably so confused, broke my heart. I've heard him whine and cry, and just imagining him in that box by himself, tugged at my heart terribly.

Montgomery named the puppy Kylo, a fitting name since his other dog is named Vader. (In addition to being a push-over, Montgomery is a also huge Star Wars nerd.) Here are Kylo and Vader, resting in their Jedi temple:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207494203005896&set=a.2311364216238.2128179.1013346232&type=3&theater

The shelter probably tried to quickly round up any old dogs that could be named Yoda or cuddly ones that looked like Wicket the Ewok. Anything to get more dogs transitioned into a loving home on the light side of the Force.

Blake Lively's shoe closet could comfortably sleep multiple people.

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Actress Blake Lively posted a photo to her Instagram of her shoe closet, and let's just say this: Blake Lively is a very thin woman, which means that approximately 1,000 Blake Livelys could stand-up in her shoe closet and be as comfortable as you are on public transportation during rush hour. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBTa608x4JS/?taken-by=blakelively

Her closet even features what looks to be a tiny Anna Wintour looking up at her from a tray. If Blake Lively wasn't Blake Lively, that would be a great place to store her weed.


Risky bet.

A 155-year-old museum mousetrap just killed a 2016 mouse.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) at the University of Reading in England "houses the most comprehensive national collection of objects, books and archives relating to the history of food, farming and the countryside." And, as of a few days ago, it also houses a very dead mouse. The museum posted a blog entry on Wednesday about a newly dead rodent that found in the museum's mouse trap...an artifact that was designed in 1861. The post begins:

After logging onto their computers today, staff here at the MERL were greeted by an unusual email from the Assistant Curator:

‘There appears to be a dead mouse in this mousetrap…’

It began.

‘…which is not described as being there on the database.’

https://twitter.com/MERLReading/status/694862908191346688

They go on to explain how, after sneaking into the museum area, the mouse had thousands of items that it could have nibbled on or slept in, but it chose the mousetrap, which ultimately led to its untimely end. The perfectly named "Perpetual Mouse Trap," which created by Colin Pullinger & Sons of Silsey, West Sussex, didn't have any bait in it at the time of the mouse's 2016 demise. The museum did report, though, that the mouse had apparently nibbled the label a bit.

You can see more pictures of the the mousetrap and its victim on the MERL blog.

The 21 funniest reactions from comedians on social media to the New Hampshire #DemDebate.

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As shock waves rippled from the near-tie in Iowa, the Democratic candidates agreed to a series of four new debates. Tonight we saw the first of these in New Hampshire. With Martin O'Malley gone, both Clinton and Sanders made efforts to find common ground and points of agreement, but clashed over questions of banker influence, foreign policy, and idealism vs compromise. Meanwhile, comedians on Twitter alternated between absurdity and exhaustion. These are the 21 funniest reactions by comedians to the New Hampshire Democratic debate! 

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https://twitter.com/Papapishu/status/695430922166927360

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https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/695404847739174912

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https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/695430272943132672

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https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/695430761134972931

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https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/695430225941762050

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https://twitter.com/JosephScrimshaw/status/695428806404763648

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https://twitter.com/behindyourback/status/695438054887026688

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https://twitter.com/bromanconsul/status/695440765783179264

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http://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/695437706378104832

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https://twitter.com/sbellelauren/status/695438870599507970

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https://twitter.com/netw3rk/status/695440956078817280

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https://twitter.com/Travon/status/695446358787026944

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https://twitter.com/SamGrittner/status/695447497490075649

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http://twitter.com/WookieOnUnicorn/status/695451301350473730

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https://twitter.com/TurboGrandma/status/695449985979019266

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https://twitter.com/ZachBroussard/status/695449770891091968

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https://twitter.com/HEELZiggler/status/695451370380333056

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https://twitter.com/solomongeorgio/status/695443843160760320

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https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/695458404400177152

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https://twitter.com/louisvirtel/status/695456920539299841

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https://twitter.com/MrEmilyHeller/status/695455431112597504

Super Bowl Sunday

Jonah Hill shows off his range in 'emotional interview' on the 'Tonight Show.'

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Jonah Hill is both a two-time Oscar nominee and dedicated bro of the Judd Apatow fraternity, and showed off this impressive range in his Tonight Show "emotional interview." Hill showed off his commitment to the craft of acting by displaying a range of feels, from #blessed to pandering. Fallon, whose acting "blessed to be alive" doesn't even register as a bit, got to whip out his Oprah impression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwPZZLnkDvE

The secret to Hill's Academy-approved acting performances seems to lie in the face:

 

So zen.
Quite intimidating.
A playful turn.

Clive the Norwegian Forest cat found after 14 months spent living in a pet food factory. He got fat.

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When Clive the Norwegian Forest cat went missing 14 months ago, his owners, Tanya and Jonathan Irons, put up flyers around the neighborhood and a post on Facebook. But when he didn't turn up, the heartbroken couple assumed the handsome purebred had been taken in by new owners. So you can imagine their surprise when on Wednesday, well over a year later, their wayward kitty was found snoozing in a pet food warehouse just two miles from their home, over twice as heavy as he was when he went missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyGk_zAM9Yc

According to Tanya, Clive was only nine months old went he wandered off, so getting bigger and fluffier was to be expected. But while some missing pets eventually turn up looking a little bit worse for wear, Irons couldn't help but comment (several times) about how "porky" he'd become.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBLX8I2Ds7W/?taken-by=tanyalouise11https://www.instagram.com/p/BBVF-qADs57/?taken-by=tanyalouise11

Employees at Kennelgate Pet Superstore in Stapleford, Notts, knew something had been living in their warehouse because whatever it was kept setting off motion detector alarms at night, as well as leaving holes in some of the bags of cat food. And, of course, droppings had been found (gross, Clive. Try harder next time). So they came up with a plan to trap the thief by laying out a trail of cat treats leading to a basket suspended over a pressure pad—when Clive stepped on the pad, the basket dropped on him. He was safe, but busted.

https://www.instagram.com/p/kbyQHADs4H/?taken-by=tanyalouise11

Some cats leave home to search for their humans deployed in the Marines,others go looking for cat food factories, but they all come home with stories to tell.

After he hired hitmen to kill her, an unbelievably badass woman surprised her husband at her own funeral.

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Noela Rukundo surprised her husband when she showed up to her own funeral, according to the Washington Post. Her husband, Balenga Kalala​, was shocked because she was not only supposed to be dead; he had paid hit men to assassinate her. This really makes all the idiot husbands on Ashley Madison look like saints.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/695608874662019072

The saga began a year ago, when Rukundo flew with her husband to Burundi (her home country) to attend her stepmother's funeral. She was fatigued and saddened by the service, and returned to their hotel room to rest. Her husband did not go to the room with her, but he did call her to check in and offer a suggestion. Burundi told the BBC:

He told me to go outside for fresh air.

She followed his advice. And the second she stepped outside, a man rushed her with a gun and immediately threatened her life:

Don’t scream. If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They’re going to catch me, but you? You will already be dead.

The rest of her ordeal plays out like a scene from an action movie or crime drama TV show. She was blindfolded and driven to an abandoned building. There, she was tied to a chair, where her kidnappers delivered the terrifying reality of why she had ended up that way:

Balenga sent us to kill you.

Naturally, she did not believe that her husband had paid men to kill her. Her kidnappers laughed at her, and then they placed a phone call to her husband on speaker phone. She heard her husband's voice on the other end of the line, and he confirmed that they should proceed.

She fainted after hearing him confirm the hit over the phone. When she awoke, the hit men explained that they did not believe in killing women, and they knew her brother. Her buffoon of a husband hired assassins with a conscience. Ha! Husbands can't get anything right. This is right up there with trying to fold bed sheets and buying the wrong type of cheese at the grocery store.

They did not however have any moral qualms about keeping the $7,000 Australian dollars he paid to kill his wife. They lied to Kalala, saying the murder was complete, and then freed her with a mobile phone, recordings of their conversations with her husband, and even a receipt for the payment he gave them. In addition to having a conscience, these assassins have decent accounting and project management skills. Somewhere, they probably have a PowerPoint presentation outlining how they were going to take this guy's money and not kill his wife.

Rukundo called her church pastor back home in Australia. Along with the help of a few embassies, he was able to get her back home, while the entire time her husband still thought she was dead. He had also told their community in Australia that she had died in a tragic accident while overseas at the funeral.

On the night of Feb. 22, 2015, Kalala held a gathering at his home, where neighbors stopped by to pay their respects and comfort him. When she saw her husband step out of the door to say goodbye to the last of the guests, she stepped out of a car and confronted him. This is perhaps the greatest revenge served to an ex in the history of the world.

The police had been notified about the plot, and Kalala confessed to conspiring to have her killed. He was sentenced to nine years in prison, where the other prisoners will presumably taunt him for the time his ghost wife got her groove back and totally destroyed his scheme.

Some people feel the story sounds so much like a movie, it should actually be one. And sooner rather than later:

https://twitter.com/TVMoJoe/status/695645586976997376https://twitter.com/aminatou/status/695664026349481985

All hopes for a movie aside, Rukundo has a hard road ahead, as she now has eight children to raise herself as a single mother. But she is very much alive, and determined to persevere after this insane drama:

My situation, my past life? That is gone. I’m starting a new life now.


James Franco is adapting the Zola Story. Hopefully he will not make an appearance as Alien.

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Back in October, the Twitter-verse and beyond was riveted by the sensational tale of Zola the Hooters waitress. Quick refresher: the Twitter story detailed the absolutely batshit experience Zola—real name Aziah Wells King—had during an impromptu trip to Florida.

The dramatic story had it all: stripping, prositution, and murder. While Zola eventually admitted to Rolling Stone that some of her tale's more salacious details were exaggerated, the car wreck of a story hit a chord with readers. When it went viral, people knew this had to become a movie.

https://twitter.com/ANN_AC0NDA/status/659289624238383104

And now, the one and only James Franco is helming an adaptation. According to Rolling Stone, Franco will direct and co-produce along with Spring Breakers co-producer Vince Jolivette. A few other producers as well as screenwriters are also on board.

There's no word yet on whether Franco will show his face in the film.

Franco as Alien, the role he was born to play.

While Franco's Spring Breakers experience seems like a perfect match for #TheStory, some disagree.

https://twitter.com/ramniiks/status/695614678341459970

It's fair to say Shia Labeouf would direct an equally bizarre adaption. As for Zola, she may be too busy to consult on the movie.

https://www.instagram.com/p/9ew9o4RXNW/

She's pregnant.

https://twitter.com/_zolarmoon/status/695474003742425088

Are Twitter adaptations the new version of finding a musical star on YouTube? If that's the case, short films may become more popular in the years to come.

Everyone is trying to figure out who the mom is in this family selfie. The Internet would appreciate a clue.

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Kaylan Mahomes posted a photo of her mother, her twin, and herself to Twitter on January 28. Her seemingly innocent family selfie has been driving the Internet crazy because it's apparently impossible to discern who is who, not only because the photo captures a pair of twins. See if you can figure out this visual puzzle.

https://twitter.com/kaylan_17/status/692827112873594885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

"Mom, twin & me," Mahomes' infuriatingly unhelpful tweet reads. The only information this gives away is that the three women are not triplets, nor are they all sisters. Some still can't believe there is a mom.

https://twitter.com/ayeeyoslim/status/692829642198089728https://twitter.com/JUEIIE/status/692912231596593154https://twitter.com/babygheII/status/692972545377705984https://twitter.com/ezinnee_/status/693220824959033344

Hypotheses were made.

https://twitter.com/KingColorad0/status/694335464669585408

And Mahomes revealed where she is in the first photo.

https://twitter.com/kaylan_17/status/693931633695678464

So, the mom is on the right and the twin is in the middle? People were not convinced.

Mahomes has since tweeted another puzzle.

https://twitter.com/kaylan_17/status/693472553113927680

She wrote, "my mom thought it was a pic." But, clearly, all three thought it was a pic! Are they all the mom?

Chelsea Clinton accidentally said 'President Sanders,' buying us another day to not talk about any actual issues.

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Why talk about the issues facing the country at this unique moment in the millennium when you can make the discourse about slip-ups and memes instead? Chelsea Clinton, former First Daughter currently running to resume the role, accidentally referred to Bernie as"President Sanders," which is embarrassing because he's competing against her mom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH7Kp1ZGCMY

She tried to recover with a quick, "Excuse me, I hope not President Sanders!" But... could it be a Freudian Slip? Is Chelsea trying to get back at her mom for a time she didn't let her throw a party in the White House as a teenager? Is she secretly a Republican?

Let's discuss this instead of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, whatever that is. 

According to science, your love of romantic comedies is good news for stalkers.

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There's definitely a difference between a healthy romantic pursuit and stalking. It's just that in intense versions of the former and mild examples of the latter, it might depend whether you've just seen a movie. And whether that movie featured Ryan Gosling

University of Michigan researcher Julia R. Lippman wrote a study titled, "I Did It Because I Never Stopped Loving You: The Effects of Media Portrayals of Persistent Pursuit on Beliefs About Stalking." Whoa. To translate, she studied whether rom-coms made people more accepting of stalking behavior. She showed her subjects a 30-minute clip of one of six movies portraying romance and then had them answer questions about stalking myths.

Lippman told Global News, "Stalking myths are false or exaggerated beliefs about stalking that minimize its seriousness, which means that someone who more strongly endorses stalking myths tends to take stalking less seriously."

Something about Mary led to an increase in stalking-supportive beliefs. Since this is super fun.

March of the Penguins and Winged Migration served as the controls in the experiment—although those penguins pursue each other pretty mercilessly, so the study could be flawed from the start. There's Something About Mary and Management were meant to give subjects a positive look at "persistent pursuit," while Enough and Sleeping With the Enemy gave negative portrayals. 

Sleeping With the Enemy 'led participants to endorse fewer stalking-supportive beliefs.' Since this is terrifying.

Lippman's results supported the hypothesis that making light of stalking leads to more acceptance of it: "[R]omanticized pursuit behaviors commonly featured in the media as part of normative courtship can lead to an increase in stalking-supportive beliefs," according to her abstract. As Mashable puts it, "women who watched the first two films tended to be more accepting of such behavior," like stalking. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuNPBH6hpUk

Interestingly enough, her inspiration for the study was as rooted in popular culture as the study itself. She told Global News, "I was inspired to pursue this research by observing that stalking often seems to be trivialized in our culture. We joke about 'Facebook stalking' crushes, for example."

"Facebook healthy romantic pursuit" doesn't sound quite as good.

Susan Sarandon had a hilarious response to Piers Morgan's complaints about her cleavage.

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The SAG Awards were on Saturday, and the stars showed up in their finest, amongst them actress Susan Sarandon, one of the very finest. She came in rocking some daring décolletage. Sarandon looked fantastic, but it unsettled some people. British TV personality Piers Morgan, specifically. He tweeted an admonishment to her on Wednesday (timely!), and it's very annoying:

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/694877615333732352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

In the face of criticism, Morgan doubled-down on his perspective. Sarandon was presenting for the In Memoriam tribute, so Morgan compared it to going to a funeral, even though she was actually just reading a few words off a teleprompter. He also called her "tacky." Oh snap.

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/694864538999586817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/694875901067137024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/694909246459224065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The thing is, Susan Sarandon is a queen and Morgan is a grumpy dude. On Thursday, she finally responded with the perfect #tbt:

https://twitter.com/SusanSarandon/status/695294247424114688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The Internet slow-clapped this incredible show of graciousness and boobs under fire. Some even joined in with some supportive cleavage of their own:

https://twitter.com/JaneyGodley/status/695405061673918465https://twitter.com/Se_Quence/status/695406087739052032https://twitter.com/AndiMacSheen/status/695420453553201154https://twitter.com/kentishtowncats/status/695588806808969216https://twitter.com/I_Am_Amara/status/695495009781460992https://twitter.com/Axe_Grrl/status/695423943767756800

Here's to Susan Sarandon's breasts: yesterday, today, and forever.

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