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Word of the Day

Scalawag (n., SKAL-uh-WAGG)

A rascal who behaves badly in an amusing way, like a kid who locks his mom out of the house, then, before their pleading from the window, throws all the eggs in the house into the sink one by one and then pours all the milk in the house down the drain. Not that anyone we know has ever done this.

Gif of the Day

TagsDogTelephoneIdentify yourself!Old dog, new tricksAlways respect the classicsTranslation is a bit ruff?

Link of the Day

Ben Rosen - My Little Sister Taught Me How to Snapchat Like The Teens

We've sat on this link for a while, not sure when and how to deploy it, and then it came up in conversation yesterday. Buzzfeed's Ben Rosen wrote this hilarious, terrifying, and wonderfully honest account of how his younger sister Brooke helped him use Snapchat. It's a good look at the next generation:

Note: some adult language throughout.

To get started, I wanted to understand what Brooke’s Snapchat experience was like on a day-to-day level, so I asked her some questions:

ME: How long have you had Snapchat?
BROOKE: My new account? About a month and a half.
ME: New account?
BROOKE: Yeah, I didn’t like my old name, so I made a new account.
ME: So you lost all your friends…?
BROOKE: Not really. I used to have about 215 and now I’m at around 180 or 190.
ME: In a month and a half??
BROOKE: Yeah, my score is already over 103,000.

...

I told Brooke what my score was:

BROOKE: That’s it?? OMG that was like my first day.

You can read the whole article at Buzzfeed.

TagsWritingBuzzfeedSnapchatThe end of timesBrave new worldIs this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

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