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The Chive Brags About Trolling The Internet…Again. Internet Responds with Hilarity, Truth.

The Chive trolled the Internet(and us) yesterday with the fumetti of the girl who “quit her job” via a whiteboard email. Why were we taken in so easily by this? Maybe it’s because times are tough and many of us cubicle rats have bosses that are “garbage diSpencers.” Or maybe because reality is strange without it having to be tainted by childish pranks.

Don’t misunderstand. That whole deal was/is more entertaining than anything Internet attempts on April Fools. But reality(we’re looking at you, Steven Slater) is stranger than anything they could ever imagine.

Today The Chive responded about the “wild ride” with another fumetti.

Just know that that Internet backlash can be a bitch.

Let the memetic mutations begin. Feel free, faithful photoshopper, to drop your sentiments in the comments.

via August in Whitechapel

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Good Morning: Future Day After Doc Brown’s Altered Chronal Dimension Total Film Tricksters

Have a full quote for reference.

in ‘back to the future’, doc sets clock in the delorean to a day 25 years in the future. today is that day.

via @verso & @smalltimegenius

UPDATE: So Total Film fessed up and admitted the above time clock was a bit of photoshopping. Through several clever cut and pastes Total Film managed to give a small measure of geek joy and snatch it away like some mean embittered uncle with an unknown point to prove. Also, they’ve revealed yet another gap in our once extensive movie trivia mental knowledge base.

Disconcerting, that is.

It’s not the first time we’ve been tricked. It is the first time we wished the trick was reality.

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