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		<title>My 2008 Academy Awards Prediction Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And the winners are . . . 
Yet again, I made my annual Oscars predictions and joined many contests.
Three years ago I correctly guessed 13 categories and two years ago I guessed 14 correctly. (Last year I got lazy.) This year, I didn&#039;t take very much time making my picks, and obviously the results show. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/25/academy-awards-predictions-2008/</link>
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		<title>More 80th Academy Awards Prediction Contests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more details on Oscars prediction contests, read the Academy Awards Prediction Contests page. For the most recent Oscars posts, be sure to check out the Oscars/Academy Awards category page. There, you should find contests, predictions, and results.
Here are a handful of contests I have found since my previous post of contests. The Academy Awards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/22/oscar-contests-2008-2/</link>
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		<title>80th Academy Awards Prediction Contests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oscar
For more details on Oscars prediction contests, read the Academy Awards Prediction Contests page. For the most recent Oscars posts, be sure to check out the Oscars/Academy Awards category page. There, you should find contests, predictions, and results.
Make sure you know who&#039;s in the running for each category! Print the official Oscars printable ballot.
The Contests:

Oscars.com [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/20/oscar-contests-2008/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Cars.com - Plan B: Witch Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A car salesman congratulates a man on how much he already knew about the car. The man admits that he used cars.com&#039;s consumer reviews and dealer locator to help himself instead of using Plan B.
The car salesman asks what Plan B was, and the man explains that he was going to have a witch doctor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-carscom-witch-doctor/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Doritos - Mouse Trap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set to Habanera from Bizet&#039;s opera Carmen, a man arrives in his apartment, opens a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos, and puts a small corner of a Dorito on a mouse trap.
After placing the mousetrap in front of a small mouse hole, he pulls up a chair and waits.
As soon as the man puts his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-doritos-mouse-trap/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Planters - Unibrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A homely woman with a unibrow, large mole, big teeth, hair clips, and frumpy fashion sense is fawned over by countless men as Frankie Valli&#039;s Can&#039;t Take My Eyes off of You plays in the background.
A tall, handsome man in an elevator gives her a look. Another admirer walks through a glass door as he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-planters-unibrow/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Toyota - More Refined</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An unsuspecting man is pushed into a car containing sleeping badgers that, &#034;if awakened, they&#039;d gnaw his face off. &#034;
The people who pushed him into the car begin to fire cannons off outside the car, but nothing can be heard inside the car: Lucky for him, that car is the Toyota Corolla, which keeps the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-toyota-badgers/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Tide - My Talking Stain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A job interviewer asks a candidate to talk about himself. As he begins talking, a second voice speaking gibberish cancels out anything the man says. It&#039;s clear that the voice is coming from the stain on the man&#039;s dress shirt.
The man talks about his organizational skills, his ability to work well in groups, and his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-tide-talking-stain/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Cars.com - Plan B: Circle of Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man shopping for a car explains to the car salesman that he did all his research on his cell phone with cars.com. He said it was that, or &#034;Plan B&#034;.
The salesman asked what Plan B was, and the guy explains, &#034;Oh, I was gonna have you fight Glondor in a stone circle death match.&#034;
We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-carscom-glondor/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: FedEx - Carrier Pigeons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An office worker impresses his boss by showing him how he was shipping all the company&#039;s packages via carrier pigeons equipped with GPS tracking and night vision sensors.
For the large packages, however, he used giant pigeons and robes that almost immediately broke and dropped the packages right into the street, crushing cars. The pigeons then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-fedex-pigeons/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Bud Light - Wine and Cheese Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this commercial, a guy shows up with his girlfriend at a wine and cheese party. He is carrying a huge piece of cheese &#8212; probably a foot tall and almost as wide.
He takes the cheese into the kitchen, where most of the men are hanging out. As a guy comments on the size of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-bud-light-wine-and-cheese/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Diet Pepsi Max - Nod</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This ad starts out with Troy Aikman discussing football as Joe Buck starts dozing off, with his head nodding as he falls out of consciousness a couple times. Haddaway&#039;s What is Love? starts playing.
We then see various people nodding off: A guy with a combover at a diner, office workers, valets, cowboys, and nominees for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-diet-pepsi-max/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Audi - Godfather</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For this ad, Audi reworks the classic &#034;horse head in the bed&#034; scene to sell their cars.
As the commercial opens, we see an exterior shot of a house followed by a pan in on Moe Greene (played by Alex Rocco) sleeping in bed. Just like in The Godfather, we see him stir and notice the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-audi/</link>
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		<title>American Idol&#039;s Worst Auditions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American Idol 7 started up this week, bringing us two episodes full of hilarious and frightening auditions. As usual, Idle Idols is blogging the funniest and most entertaining auditions.
We&#039;ve only had two episodes thus far, but don&#039;t miss articles on the female linebacker, the crazed, hyper glitter woman, a song from a Paula Abdul stalker, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/01/17/american-idol-7/</link>
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		<title>Multiplayer Desktop Tower Defense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, The Smarmy Carny covered two Tower Defense games worth playing, and strategically the best game out there is Desktop Tower Defense.
At long last, the Casual Collective website has opened its virtual doors for anyone to register and enjoy. Previously, I had been playing under the &#034;invite only&#034; beta version of the site.
MPDTD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/12/08/casual-collective/</link>
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		<title>Plenty of Deals on Cyber Monday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s Cyber Monday, and that means that the online retailers (or &#034;e-tailers&#034;) have set out their best deals today to try and compete with the Black Friday deals you may have missed.
Check out a selection of the Cyber Monday deals at The Black Friday Podcast. You can also get links to additional information on Cyber [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/11/26/cyber-monday-07/</link>
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		<title>Black Friday 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving week! That also means that Black Friday is this Friday.
If you haven&#039;t started preparing already, be sure to take a look at the various ads and get ready for all the big sales! Here are some sites and forums to help you get your Black Friday strategy set:

The Black Friday Podcast (site operational, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/11/21/black-friday-2007/</link>
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		<title>Chuck Norris Endorses Mike Huckabee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Norris endorses Mike Huckabee in a new YouTube campaign video. In this video, &#034;Chuck Norris Approved,&#034; Huckabee gives several Chuck Norris facts and Norris gives various Huckabee facts. The video calls the mash up &#034;HuckChuckFacts.&#034; Take a look.

Of course, in order to understand this video, you&#039;d have to be familiar with the various Chuck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/11/20/norris-huckabee/</link>
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		<title>Wal-Mart&#039;s Anti-Family Family Commercial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While watching television this week, I was surprised by the conflicting views in a Wal-Mart commercial. Wal-Mart shows the twisted way in which they view &#034;family togetherness.&#034;
In the commercial, the mother of a family of six discusses her family and a deal she found at Wal-Mart:
You know what I love about Wal-Mart?
They know how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/11/15/walmart-anti-family/</link>
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		<title>Happy National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day!
If you don&#039;t know what to order from the pizzeria today, you&#039;re probably just not paying attention.
So call up your local pizzeria and ask for a large pie with:

pepperoni
sausage
mushrooms
extra cheese
bacon
onions
ground beef
ham
chicken
green peppers
red peppers
jalapeno peppers
tomatoes
garlic
black olives
green olives
pineapple
salami
prosciutto
turkey
artichoke hearts
feta cheese
spinach
oranges
oregano
capers

 . . . but don&#039;t ask for anchovies!
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		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/11/12/pizza-with-the-works-day/</link>
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		<title>NBC&#039;s Green Week Disappoints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought network TV was about as low as it could get, Hollywood&#039;s ineffective and misdirected attempts to push environmental issues this week brought network television to a new low.
NBC celebrated &#034;Green Week&#034; this week. It was one of the oddest campaigns or ratings stunts of television history, all under the motto &#034;Green [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/11/10/nbc-green-week/</link>
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		<title>Does My Name Is Earl Disgust You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was another bit of Spanish in this week&#039;s episode of My Name Is Earl, Frank&#039;s Girl. Throughout the episode, Joy and Catalina get into a war over . . . pooing themselves, of all things.
After Joy exacts her revenge on Catalina and takes a picture of the result, Catalina pops her head outside of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/10/26/earl-spanish-bathroom/</link>
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		<title>My Name Is Earl&#039;s Spanish and Japanese Jokes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Name Is Earl has done it again. Previously, we have seen several Spanish-language jokes that break the fourth wall, and now they&#039;re expanding their efforts to Japanese.
In this week&#039;s episode, The Frank Factor, we see the origins of the various characters before they all end up together. As Catalina has freshly landed in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/10/14/earl-spanish-japanese/</link>
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		<title>Chuck Has the Secrets to Lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the second episode of NBC&#039;s new series Chuck, there was a rare cross-network reference.
The basic plot of the show is that Chuck accidentally &#034;downloaded&#034; all of the United States government&#039;s secrets into his brain via a government program designed for exactly this purpose. When Chuck sees a seemingly harmless picture from this program, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/10/02/chuck-and-lost/</link>
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		<title>What&#039;s Your Pirate Name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, why not ask yourself, &#034;What&#039;s My Pirate Name?&#034;
My pirate name is Mad Dog Roberts. According to the quiz, this is because I&#039;m &#034;part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, I&#039;m the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon.
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		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2007/09/19/whats-your-pirate-name/</link>
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