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Video: What Happened When Kathy Griffin Rode An Elevator With Michele Bachmann
“Were you born a bigot or did you just grow into it?” Kathy Griffin describes her experience meeting Michele Bachmann. (via jezebel.com)
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Image: The Divorce Lift
A clever little advertising concept for a divorce lawyer. Is it deliberate that they make the couple in this ad look especially hateful?
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Image: Stephen Fry Stuck in an Elevator
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what British actor/comedian/”excellent good friend” Stephen Fry looks like when stuck in an elevator. He got stuck there after speaking at Apple’s Regent Street store in London, and proceeded to tweet his way out of the situation.
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Video: The Cat Elevator
French cats are smarter than American cats because they can train their owners to let them in and out of the house via elaborate elevator mechanisms.
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Space Elevator
Tech Buzz The Japanese are exploring the development of a $5 billion dollar space elevator that will potentially take radioactive waste, solar generators, and even people to space. If it seems like a work of science fiction, that’s because it is! The space elevator was first envisioned by Arthur C. Clarke in his classic 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise. Now, Japanese engineers are hunched over a copy of that very book trying to figure out how the heck to make it work.
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Elevators
Culture Buzz The New Yorker delves into the secret lives of elevators, including the story of a man who was stuck inside one for 41 hours (and it was all caught on tape!). We don’t know about you, but after reading this piece, we’ll take the stairs. See you in the lobby.
