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'Badass' Hillary Clinton Surfaces in Colombia

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:10:00 CDT

While President Obama had his hands full with the Secret Service prostitute scandal in Colombia, Hillary Clinton was partying at a trendy cafe in Cartagena. It was badass turn No. 2 for Clinton, who's undergoing a reputation refurbishment as a take-no-guff secretary of state thanks to the Texts from Hillary...

'Texts From Hillary' Hails Rebirth of a Badass

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:59:37 CDT

The latest meme to take the Internet by storm also might just indicate a Clinton renaissance: Texts From Hillary features imagined conversations between Clinton and pretty much anyone—other politicians, Sarah Palin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jay-Z—using a photo of Clinton taken last fall on a flight to Tripoli, in which...

Clinton Gets In on Text Meme Joke

Matt Cantor — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:52:05 CDT

The "Texts from Hillary" blog just got some text from Hillary. The Tumblr blog has garnered much attention for its meme series featuring fake texts from Clinton, playing off a wire photo of her with her Blackberry. Now the secretary herself is in on the joke. She posted one of...

New Meme Gets Kick Out of Jolie 'Leg Bombing'

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:08:40 CST

No one can quite shake the image of Angelina Jolie obsessively flashing her toned right leg from the slit up her dress at the Oscars. So what to do? Turn to the new "leg bombing" meme that's a runaway hit with Internet fans. The burgeoning meme has Angelina's leg handing...

I Can Has $30M? Cheezburger Raises Big Bucks

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:21:54 CST

Never underestimate the power of a funny cat: Cheezburger, the publisher of esteemed sites like LOLcats and FAIL Blog, has just raised $30 million in its first round of institutional funding. The money will allow Cheezburger to "hire, hire, hire," says founder Ben Huh, who plans to bulk up the...

Film Studio: Stop Parodying Our Hitler Rant

Rob Quinn — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:19:00 CDT

The day of reckoning has arrived for one of the Internet's most enduring memes. The German movie studio behind the film Downfall has demanded that YouTube remove clips from the production subtitled by users to make it seem as if Hitler is ranting about anything from Michael Jackson's death to...

Paper Mistakes 'Pedobear' for Olympic Mascot

Emily Rauhala — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:14:44 CST

From the fact-checking department: When publishing an image of Olympic mascots, check to make sure there's not a cartoon bear with ties to pedophilia mixed in. A Polish paper made just such a mistake, accidentally lifting the meme known as "Pedobear"—widely used to mock pedophiles—from Google Images and...

Hitler Rant: A Meme That's Run Its Course

Will McCahill — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:53:00 CST

Surely you’ve seen some variation of the World War II film Downfall in which the subtitles of an Adolf Hitler rant are repurposed as commentary on one of the day’s pressing events, like the iPad, or the breakup of Oasis, or Twitter being down. Mercedes Bunz has had about enough,...

Who Will Be the Next Chuck Norris?

Kate Schwartz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:16:12 CST

Chunk Norris is more than a legend—he's a meme, a man who can kill other men just by looking at them, and a conservative who helped Mike Huckabee lose an election, writes Drew Grant for Urlesque . But it's a new decade, which means it's time for a new Chuck....