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Anyone seen the new cover of Time?

Despair, Inc. — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:02:06 +0000

So everyone’s talking about the latest Time Magazine cover story on Attachment Parenting. If you haven’t seen it yet, we’re including it below the fold- but we warn you, it’s potentially on the borderline of a NSFW image. (Plus, it hints at some spoilers… Seriously. You’ve been warned.) Looking at the cover, it seems like [...]

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Introducing “Adventure” – The Latest Caption Contest Winner

Despair, Inc. — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:28:16 +0000

The voting in the Despair.com “Bike” semi-finals round is over- and the winner has been chosen! Introducing “Adventure”! Congratulation to Eric Kupinski for his winning entry, “Adventure – If you keep living life like there’s no tomorrow, you’ll eventually be right.” That entry won with a pretty decisive margin- in a contest with several [...]

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Score the Kitten Caption Contest Entries

Despair, Inc. — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:12:19 +0000

We kept the submissions open on this caption contest for a while hoping that something funny might show up. Now we’d like you to do the dirty work of sifting through the entries. Thanks.

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NEWS ALERT: Despair.com Caught up in GSA Junket Scandal, Vows Legal Action

Despair, Inc. — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:28:00 +0000

INFINITE IRONY - A Government Employee - dressed business-casual - inadvertently demonstrates just how true Despair's "Government" Demotivator really is.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Media Relations Email: media@despair.com www.despair.com AUSTIN, TX – April 9th, 2012 – Employees at Austin-based cynical goods retailer Despair, Inc. reacted angrily today to news of Despair’s inadvertent involvement in the recently-emerging [...]

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NEW DESPAIRWEAR: The Drinking Games

Despair, Inc. — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:08:31 +0000

If you have to choose between playing Hunger Games and Drinking Games, we recommend the latter*, since, you know, it doesn’t involve you being hunted down and killed and stuff. And now, you can do it in style, while wearing our brand new DespairWear T-shirt! Better still, from now until Friday at midnight, you can pick [...]

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BMX Caption Contest – Final Vote

Despair, Inc. — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:54:32 +0000

The finalist for the BMX caption contest has been chosen. Check it out here.

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Introducing “Budgeting” – The Latest Caption Contest Winner!

Despair, Inc. — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:38:29 +0000

The voting in the “Birds” semi-finals round is over- and the winner has been chosen! Introducing “Budgeting”! Congratulation to Jennifer Young of Minnesota for her winning entry- your check is in the mail! (Please wait until until next Friday to cash it… Um, just wanna move some funds around.) And hey there, you other [...]

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Caption this Kitten and Mouse Photo

Despair, Inc. — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:14:54 +0000

Submissions on the Kitten contest are closed. Score the entries here.

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Score the BMX Contest Entries

Despair, Inc. — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:01 +0000

Click here to vote on the BMX caption contest finalsts.

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Tampa News turns tragic tale into uplifting one with brilliant photo choice

Despair, Inc. — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:34:23 +0000

The website for the CBS affiliate in Tampa is carrying an Associated Press story about an unfortunate and seemingly accidental death in Northern Florida. Most news sites carrying the story are doing so without a file photo. But apparently the folks in Tampa wanted to spice things up a bit, because somebody there chose to compliment [...]

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