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Seriously, there was a meeting where someone presented this idea and people ran with it

Keith Conrad
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Imagine your browser history being your first introduction to someone. I guess you’d have no secrets. That sounds like the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas

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JJ Spaun shocks the field at Oakmont with a dramatic U.S. Open win, and John Howell and John Dempsey are here to break it all down.

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John Howell / Rick Telander

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Also Worth A Look…

  • Can Americans Even Afford To Buy American-Made Cars? - That’s probably a question that should have come up a while ago

  • Man finds out he was married without his knowledge, ex-girlfriend arrested - Now I want to know who performed the wedding

  • Scientists in Antarctica Detect Deep-Earth Signals That Defy Known Physics - Sounds like the beginning of a horror movie from the 1980’s to me

  • Beatles' Sons to Release Song Called 'Rip Off' - Fitting. People probably think of “The Beatles Sons” as being kids… but they are in their 40’s and 50’s

  • The Older Adults Conquering Loneliness Through Storytelling - Sounds like they need a podcast. I know a guy

  • Man cleaning out his car finds Powerball ticket worth $50,000 - Maybe I’m an odd duck and buy lottery tickets so rarely that when I do I always know where they are and check them immediately, but I just don’t understand how people can lose stuff like that

  • Florida man pees on food inside Sam's Club, faces criminal charges - That’s why my wife and I go to Costco instead

  • Kraft Heinz to Drop Artificial Dyes in US Foods - What if we like artificial dyes?

  • These Spiders Vomit Their Victims To Death, Regurgitating Toxic Goo Until It's Dinner - There just aren’t enough nopes

  • 6-Foot Alligator Found Lurking Outside Virginia Motel Room - Guard dogs are too expensive

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