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Picture this: Surely they couldn’t have missed the double-entendre in this sign. It’s a local (NZ) one; anyone know where from?

Media: Fetus on the Rocks is an ad campaign in Italy discouraging pregnant women from drinking. What do you think?

Are you narcissistic? Take this quiz and find out. I scored 13 because I am an extrovert with marginal self-esteem, being a mother and old enough to know that bad things do happen and that self-delusion is for the young.

TV & Film: This is awesome. The same newspaper prop appears in everything from 80s sitcoms like Married with Children, to Desperate Housewives to the film No Country For Old Men. Slashfilm suggests it became a reoccurring (sic) gag between propmasters.

UPDATE: From Slate’s Brow Beat blog…

“Production companies use prop newspapers instead of real ones because getting clearance from an actual publication is usually more work than it’s worth in potential fees and bureaucracy… Rather than battle the legal department at the New York Times for that perfunctory breakfast shot, prop masters buy a stack of Earl Hays fake papers, which cost just $15 each. Sometimes if they have some left over they’ll recycle them for another job.”

Local: Paul Henry as an 80s gameshow host. Where was this in Cheers for 50 Years?

Television/Twitter: Check out the trailer for the new sitcom starring William Shatner, based on the Twitter account by the same name: Shit My Dad Says.

Video: Outtakes from a wine ad featuring a sloshed Orson Welles. (Via Dead Spin)