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Philip Roth, Bank Robberies, and James Bond's Beer

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Ray Gustini 297 Views Apr 4, 2012

We respect and value the social media editors who share the links that make our job easier. But sometimes, we have no idea what they are talking about. So after a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorites.

Shifty, robbery-foiling tellers. We were always discouraged by a simple, "No, sorry, you can't rob us today: we're all out of money." But that's us. We're old school.

This is our favorite lesser Philip Roth novel, right there with Portnoy's Gripe, The Plot Against Canada, An American Pastoral Painter in London

But he's only going to sip. No keg-stands for this secret agent.

File under: S--- Doris Kearns Goodwin Says.

Here we go with the flying car declinism. Really, how practical is a flying anything, save for a flying plane or hot air balloon?

High bid from TMZ: $7,500. Book it.

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