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Tony and the USC girls show their support for The Friday Six ….

People are always telling you not to put all your eggs into one basket … but you have to admit you’d look pretty silly walking around the store with two grocery baskets, one of which only had a couple of eggs in it.

Of course, what the phrase really means is that you shouldn’t commit all your efforts and focus to just one particular undertaking.

If you’ve got nothing better to do this weekend, try explaining this rule of thumb to your girlfriend. Be prepared to scramble.

It seems the virtues of diversification are generally thought to apply only to investing and, perhaps in some cases, to pornography.

In the interest of broadening the horizons of the many readers of this blog (and by “many” I mean the homeless guys at the library I bribe with beer to help boost my click-through stats), every Friday features six articles, websites or animal bloopers that made us laugh over the course of the past week.

The Friday Six. Because alliteration is overrated and because to make a funny souffle, sometimes you have to break a few balls. Or something like that ….
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The Ominous Comma kicks off this edition with a tribute to the steel-toe work boot.


Grundir the Implacable will cast your memes into the crack of Mount Doom for food.

The always hilarious sports blog, With Leather, fills you in on what Travis Henry will be doing during his one-year suspension from the NFL.

At Mental Floss they’ve compiled twelve actual courses you wish you could take for that last elective slot you need to fill.

Rooftop Comedy has some high-res clips of comics on their site. In this one, Kathleen Madigan explains why she doesn’t trust George Bush.

Dave P over at Pop Buzz UK is our resident expert on all things British. Sorry about that whole Tea Party thing, Dave.

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What happened to her basket?