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Your Stupid Minds! Stupid! Stupid!

Preschool Bans Kids From “Super Hero Play,” Doesn’t Even Have the Decency To Do It With Proper Grammar

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:00 pm, May 22nd, 2013

By now you may have seen the picture floating around of a flyer distributed by an unnamed preschool that has banned “Super Hero play.” If not: Yes, there is such a preschool. Apparently kids have been getting a little rowdy there lately—which is absolutely a problem that should be solved—so the school decided, hey, instead of addressing the violence issue, let’s just say they can’t pretend to be superheroes.

The letter, with my commentary, is behind the cut. I am unable to can with this one, folks.

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Assuming Direct Control

School Bus Service in Spain Gets Cut, So Mothers Pose for a Semi-Nude Calendar to Pay For It Their Own Darn Selves

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:15 pm, December 31st, 2012

Spain, as much of the world, isn’t doing too well economically. After the country’s construction bubble popped the government instituted sizable budget cuts, including to schools, many of which now charge way too much for lunches and have had to cut bus services. Dozens of kids at Evaristo Calayatud in Valencia now have to walk nearly four miles over unpaved roads to get to school.

But a group of mothers aren’t having it. If the government can’t afford school buses, well, they’re just going to raise the money themselves. By posing for a semi-nude calendar.

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Braaaaiiiinnnnns

You Must Have Brains To Be Eligible For This Zombie Scholarship

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:15 pm, November 23rd, 2012

Everyone deserves to be able to further their education if they want. Even zombies. Who are we to discriminate? What? This is a “Zombie Scholarship,” not a scholarship for zombies? Well, I’m going to have to rethink this whole thing.

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Here Be Dragons

You Can Take A Skyrim Class At A Texas University

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:14 pm, October 23rd, 2012

We had one comic book course when I went to college and I didn’t even get to take it. Now one university in Texas is offering a course on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Maybe I need to go back to school… 

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Not a Misprint

Real Swedish Chef Makes Yummy, Healthy Food For Students, Gets In Trouble For It

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:14 pm, October 8th, 2012

Annika Eriksson’s food is delicious. Therefore, she must stop serving it to the children at the Swedish school she works in. Obviously. 

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