Breaking up is hard to do, but what can you say once summer packs her bags and leaves? Cry into your pillow for the next three seasons? OK, that’s not a bad idea. But we’d rather celebrate the good times we had by building a little altar to her, reminiscing over all the sweet memories we made together, then burning the whole goddamn thing down to the ground with a bottle of lighter fluid we bought from the Dollar Tree. Join us as we say goodbye to summer and never look back.
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Summer memoriam
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15. 20 Hilarious Beach Fails That Will Make You Wet Your Pants
Beach days were the best days, even if we were too drunk to swim.
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14. Playing Hooky: Enjoy Summer With These Irrefutable Excuses For Calling Out of Work
Remember how great it was when everyone played hooky?
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13. Lazy Summer: The Best Rivers to Float Down With Friends (And a Beer Cooler)
Was it all just a wonderful dream?
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12. Day Drinking: The Best Beer For Every Day of the Week (Starting Today)
Drinking anytime, anyplace -- but not just any beer. Oh, summer day drinking, we'll never forget you.
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11. Family Gets Ready For Summer Trip to Disneyland, Dad Packs Boxing Gloves
The biggest thing to hit Disneyland this summer wasn't Star Wars Land, it was kicking ass and scarring children.
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10. The Mandatory 2019 Best Comic-Con Cosplay
San Diego's Comic-Con was awesome as usual. Cosplay was off the charts this year.
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9. The John Wick Handbook to a Perfectly Normal Day
Catching up with John Wick was a blast.
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8. The Mandatory Guide to Every Movie Referenced in ‘Stranger Things’ By The Duffer Brothers
Stranger Things 3 kept us busy in July. Man, that was a great Saturday.
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7. RANKED! The 10 Best Margot Robbie Movies Before ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
Tarantino hit us with another classic, as Margot Robbie's star continues to rise.
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6. Kim Kardashian West Body Makeup Comes With the Kanye West of Instruction Manuals
Our skin is still recovering from Kardashian West's new business venture.
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5. 9 Lessons HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ Taught Us About Gen Z
Euphoria came along and taught us so many things about what it means to be Gen Z.
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4. Pooping in Public Pools Trend Goes Viral (and Bacterial)
But then people started pooping in pools and made us question everything we knew about life.
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3. Meanwhile in Florida: Man Attacks Woman With McDonalds Sauce Packets, Spices Up Life
So we took several trips to Florida because...it's the weirdest place on earth.
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2. Apple Falls Far From Tree With New Credit Card Launch
Apple floundered a bunch and got us thinking how nice it was to unplug this summer.
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1. RANKED! 8 Perfect National Parks for an End-of-Summer Road Trip
And nothing wowed us more than our trip to the national parks. We can't wait to do it all over again next summer. With a newer, hotter summer.
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