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GRIFTERGATE 2009 - WE'VE CREATED A MONSTER

Jeezy Creezies, who would have guessed that our little shruggy bear of a hiring whoopsit would grow up to become one of the most pervasive pieces of internet crapiana since the gif. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone buys up the rights to kariferrell.com to start hucking t-shirts that say "I can haz hotdog?" over a picture of Kareem-Adbul Jabar being shot at by the Death Star. This must be what all those people on 4chan would feel like if any of them had a soul. Anyways, we get the feeling that by tomorrow morning everybody will be done with this whole deal and then Monday morning everyone's parents will forward them the story and we'll all be really done with it, so enjoy it now while it's still only kind of irritating. Also we are hereby expurgating the term "grifter" from the Vice lexicon and recommend you do the same before it gets scooped up by the awfuls and turned into the next bacon/pirate/ninja/lolcat. As a closing thought, wouldn't it be funny if this was all just some sort of viral marketing ploy cooked up to sell GURU® brand energy drinks? [cough]