Emerald Catron
Emerald Catron has written for Asylum, Lemondrop, MyDaily and Daily Fill. She is one half of rap duo Dem Shortybooz and is a comedic performer around NYC. Follow her on Twitter @emeraldcatron
Emerald Catron
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Woman Letting Internet Name Her Baby for $5,000
Suddenly we feel very lucky to have been born in the '80s. Back then, our biggest naming danger was being called Brandi or Lacey. One mom-to-be is letting the internet name her child, so who knows what it will be called.
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World’s Oldest Breakdancing Video Uncovered
We don't know this kid's name, so we're just going to call him ORIGINAL B-BOY. This video, which the Library of Congress has politely decided to share with the world, was made in 1898, and shows a little street urchin performing acrobatics and maybe breaking just a little bit.
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Here’s a GIF of One Direction’s Harry Styles Getting Hit in the Crotch With a Shoe
Okay, so maybe that's not the most graceful headline. But you didn't come here for grace. You came here to see that one guy from One Direction get hit in the junk with a shoe. Over and over again. You won't be disappointed. (Check out the video above.)
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Genius Physicist Invents Machine to Separate Cream From Oreos
Here you were proud of that macrame potted plant caddy you tied together. This video might have you rethinking your hobbies.
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A Modest Proposal: Goats Should Replace the ‘Wilhelm Scream’
YouTuber FollowtheFoot has an interesting idea for all of us. Take the classic "Wilhelm Scream" sound effect, and replace it with a screaming goat. Even if you think that's a totally dumb idea, you still get to hear some screaming goats if you watch this video, which is ALWAYS HILARIOUS.
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The Best (and Most Hilarious) Screaming Goat Remixes on the Web
Now that we think of it, why wouldn't you add footage of screaming goats to as many songs as you possibly could? Needless to say, this new internet trend makes much more sense to us than Harlem Shake videos or teenage
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Cheerleader Makes Unbelievable Half Court Shot
The internet has been on a roll with the half court shot videos lately. Still, in terms of impressiveness, this one is going to be pretty hard to beat. It's hard enough to sink a shot from half court, but this cheerl
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Jack Nicholson Is Confused at the Oscars
Jack Nicholson seemed even more confused than usual when he got caught off-guard on-camera at the Oscars on Sunday night. Plenty of 'Weekend at Bernie's' jokes abounded on the web. A GIF was spawned. But perhaps nothing captured the senior moment better than this picture made by twitter user Samir Mezrahi. Observe brilliance in its pure form:
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Watch Seth MacFarlane’s 2013 Oscars Opening Monologue
Here it is. The bit that puts Seth MacFarlane either on a course to success or so many hours of suck. William Shatner seemed like an ... odd choice, but maybe it's a sign that this is just the beginning of a four-hour episode of 'Family Guy.'
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The Best Oscars 2013 Tweets
Why sort through hundreds and hundreds of Oscars tweets, when we will do that for you? We've picked out our favorites and are compiling them here so you don't have to read Pantene commercials or people just saying "OSCARS! OSCARS!! OSCARS!!!" From comments on the opening monologue, to everybody freaking out over the 'Jaws' theme playing people off stage, to ties and glorious man-hair, we've got it all
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10 Vintage Oscar Moments
We've got some guesses as to what's going to happen at the Oscars today. Nick Nolte's already told us about his pet crow, so we're guessing it's just going to be women wearing insanely expensive, unnecessarily frilly, sparkly dresses giving canned answers and men in tuxedos posing for cameras.
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How the Internet is Reacting to Playstation 4
So this video does a pretty good job of summing up the PS4 press conference yesterday, if you didn't have several hours to spend watching streaming video about a new gaming console. Some people are excited. Others are underwhelmed. Still others are making memes, because this is the internet, and that's what people do. Here are some of our favorites.