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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jun 26, 2017
June 26, 2017
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Fashion Emergency:
If you've got cash to burn and a love for fancy office supplies, may we introduce you to a $185-dollar Prada paper clip!!?Really. Barneys New York is currently selling a Prada money clip designed to look like an oversized paper clip. That's it. That's all there is to it. Teen Voguepoints out that you can buy 1,000 regular paperclips for just $5.29 at Staples; that means $185 dollars could buy you 34,972 paperclips.
In other basic stuff that's overpriced just because a luxury fashion label made it... Balenciaga also recently made headlines for its $1,100 "shopping bag" --just a white tote bag designed to look like a paper shopping bag. You know, those bags stores give you for free when you buy stuff! (Bartha)Chic Sh*t:
We may or may not get KANYE in 2020, but if we do, KIM KARDASHIAN-WEST already has the perfect accessory.
The potentially-presidential couple purchased JACKIE KENNEDY's Cartier watch for a tidy sum of $379,500 bucks at an auction!
Auction house Christie's expected the watch to go for the slightly-less-intimidating $120-thousand.
The watch was initially given to Kennedy by Prince STANISLAW RADZIWILL, her brother-in-law. It's engraved with the date Feb. 23, 1963, to commemorate a hike that the prince went on to support President JOHN F. KENNEDY's goal of making Americans healthier--about nine months before Kennedy was assassinated.
But don't worry about the watch collecting dust--Kim plans on wearing it! (AB)Animal Stories:
Video shot at an Indiana zoo shows a tiger trying to snuggle up to a pregnant lady's belly.
It happened at Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend. The clip shows the tiger gently rubbing up against the glass near visitor NATASHA HANDSHOE's baby-bump. Handshoe's cousin BRITTANY --who shot the video-- says, "This beautiful tiger knew that my cousin... was pregnant! It was the sweetest moment!" The zoo posted the clip to Facebook with the caption: "This is why the Zoo is here --to help make connections to nature!" (Still)2016 Most Popular Dogs in the US:
This year's annual American Kennel Club survey of the most popular dogs in the US is out, and once again, the Labrador Retriever is number one and the German Shepherd and Golden Retrievers are numbers two and three. In fact, there are no changes for the top six at all.
The Rottweiler moved from number nine up a spot to number eight, and the Poodle moved up a spot to the number seven spot, knocking the Yorkshire Terrier back to ninth place. The top-10 (followed by last year's position):
10. Boxer (10)
9. Yorkshire Terrier (7)
8. Rottweiler (9)
7. Poodle (8)
6. French Bulldog (6)
5. Beagle (5)
4. Bulldog (4)
3. Golden Retriever (3)
2. German Shepherd Dog (2)
1. Labrador Retriever (1) -
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