“Well, that’s a good question, an…wait…no…NO!  What are they saying?  WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?”

~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief Johnny Roosevelt

The America Fun Fact of the Day staff likes to follow various printed media sources throughout the nation with the same grim fascination as British people watching David Blaine suspended over the Themes.  We like to see if it’s going to die, or if it’ll just keep hanging around.  For now, media is hanging around.

Though thankfully, newspapers are not making giant stone Abraham Lincolns. 

We find one thing funnier than watching Newspapers struggle, and that’s watching newspapers ineptly try to adapt to the information age.  Yeah, New York Times, we’re absolutely going to pay to go to your damn website.  It’s not like the internet has already found a the surprisingly easy way to bypass the paywall already or anything.  Face.

We bring all this up because, in our routine of going through newspaper’s facebook pages (which totally pale in comparison to the AFFotD facebook page which is absolutely up and running) we discovered a question posed by the RedEye, a free publication based out of Chicago.  Their facebook paged asked the simple question:  What would you do if you were given $100 and had to spend it in an hour.

Easy question, right?  “Booze and scratch-off tickets” would be an acceptable answer.  “Give me the hundred bucks first, and then I’ll let you know,” would be another one.

That didn’t get through to the 100 plus people who answered incorrectly (“oh it’s a rhetorical question though, AFFotD, you can’t have a wrong answer to a rhetorical question” oh yes you fucking can, dammit).  And so, in a manner that we usually on reserve for Mike Adams or children, we’re here to tell dozens of Chicagoans how they would choose to spend 100 dollars is stupid.  And just so we don’t have to put down the like, twenty people who said they would spend it on clothes, we’ll save you some time.  No, clothes are not an acceptable way to spend the 100 dollars in this situation.  Jesus.

And let’s start the list of hate.

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