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Feb 2025
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đŸ‘”đŸ» “Betty White Bump” — The Best Super...

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The #1 Super Bowl ad? Snickers in 2010
 because Snickers acted like a Freudian therapist.

Waffle House is charging a 50-cent-per-egg fee
 but we tell ya who to blame for Egg-flation is.

New tariffs just hit Shein and Temu
 hand it can all be explained with Barbie dolls.

Plus, the newest job in America is “TikTok Coach”... because there is an “i” in “viral.”


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