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		<title>Axe&#8217;s Cleanest Dirty Caption Contest</title>
		<link>http://topcultured.com/win-an-axe-holiday-gift-pack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Joseph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, here&#8217;s the deal: AXE isn&#8217;t quite done with the &#8220;Clean Your Balls&#8221; Campaign, so don&#8217;t get comfortable yet. This time we&#8217;re asking you to put your creative minds to use in a very visual <a href="http://topcultured.com/win-an-axe-holiday-gift-pack/">Read On &#187;</a>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">So, here&#8217;s the deal: AXE isn&#8217;t quite done with the &#8220;Clean Your Balls&#8221; Campaign, so don&#8217;t get comfortable yet. This time we&#8217;re asking you to put your creative minds to use in a very visual way. Every day, for 5 days, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/axe">AXE</a> is going to link to a new suggestive picture, and it&#8217;s your job to add a nice, significant caption to it (remember, not too dirty, AXE has an image of cleanliness to uphold). The pictures will appear on different blogs every day.  Check out the photos from the past 2 days and some of the tweets over at The Campus Socialite. All you need to do in order to win is follow @AXE and reply with the hashtag <strong>#AXEPIX</strong>, and win an AXE Holiday Gift Pack!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And without further ado, here&#8217;s your first picture. Oh and don&#8217;t worry we&#8217;ve already prepared you to tweet! <strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Just Click AXE&#8217;s Dirty Photo and We&#8217;ll Send You Right to <span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://clicktotweet.com/FW2b2">Twitter</a></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://clicktotweet.com/FW2b2" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14148" src="http://topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/questionable-rock.jpg" alt="" width="279" height="417" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here&#8217;s our attempt just to get you started:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://clicktotweet.com/FW2b2" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14150" src="http://topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Screen-shot-2011-01-17-at-10.48.47-AM.png" alt="" width="521" height="156" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Check out another great video from AXE after the jump.</p>
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<p>Check out tomorrow&#8217;s AXE Cleanest Dirty Tweet Competition over at Banned In Hollywood!</p>
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		<title>Cold Stone Creamery Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 16:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heesa Phadie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yo, yo, yo&#8230;big ups to Cold Stone&#8230;they saw our Will They Build It? post and video and loved it so much that they&#8217;ve given us gift cards to give to our readers. How awesome is <a href="http://topcultured.com/cold-stone-creamery-giveaway/">Read On &#187;</a>]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9fjmURJWo">Yo, yo, yo&#8230;big ups</a> to <a href="http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/"><strong>Cold Stone</strong></a>&#8230;they saw our <strong><a href="http://topcultured.com/cold-stone-creamery-every-topping-under-the-sun-dae/">Will They Build It? post and video</a> </strong>and loved it so much that they&#8217;ve given us gift cards to give to our readers. How awesome is that! Who wouldn&#8217;t want free ice cream?</p>
<p>First place will receive <strong>$50 in Cold Stone Creamery gift cards</strong>, second  place will receive <strong>$25 gift card and a polo shirt</strong> and third place will  receive a <strong>$25 gift card</strong>.There are two ways to enter the contest. The first way it to retweet the following:</p>
<p><strong>I want free ice cream from @TopCultured &amp; @ColdStone_Corp http://bit.ly/9188At</strong><strong> (RT to enter)</strong></p>
<p>The second way is to leave a comment below with your favorite Cold Stone Creamery creation.  The winners will be selected at random. The contest will be open until Friday (May 14th) evening at 11:59 PM. You can enter as many times as you&#8217;d like so Tweet away until you can&#8217;t Tweet any more and the only thing that will ease the strain is a nice big Gotta Have It size of their new Strawberry Cheesecake creation or next month&#8217;s Chocolate Peanut Butter creation!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Mmmmmmmmm&#8230;&#8230;.how damn good do these look&#8230;*drool*</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Contest Time: We&#8217;ve Got $400 to Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heesa Phadie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the good folks at eSmart Tax have given us a few $100 Visa giftcards to divvy out to you, our loving readers. We wish we had 1 million to give out so you all <a href="http://topcultured.com/its-contest-time-weve-got-400-to-giveaway/">Read On &#187;</a>]]></description>
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<p>So the good folks at <a href="http://www.esmarttax.com/"><strong>eSmart Tax</strong></a> have given us a few $100 Visa giftcards to divvy out to you, our loving readers. We wish we had 1 million to give out so you all could get one but sadly just like my Mom picked my little brother as her favorite, we have to decide between 4 of you.<br />
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<h3>In order to win you must:</h3>
<p> send a Tweet stating what you plan on doing with your tax returns this year and be sure to include the #eSmartTax and @TopCultured. For example: &#8220;Hey @TopCultured I plan to blow my tax return on the new iPad #eSmartTax&#8221;<br />
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Four (4) winners will be chosen at random on Monday, February 1, 2010. You can tweet as many times as you like, each tweet counts as an entry and you are thus more likely to win the more tweets you send.<br />
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And if you haven&#8217;t already done so, be sure to check out <a href="http://www.esmarttax.com/"><strong>eSmart Tax&#8217;s website</strong></a>. They offer several easy and affordable packages for filing your tax returns and they claim to &#8220;offer you return-maximizing tools to make sure you’re getting the biggest tax refund possible.&#8221; Also if you happen to have the last name Johnson you can get your <strong><a href="http://topcultured.com/2-2-million-tax-returns-filed-for-free/">returns filed for free</a></strong>!</p>
<p>So Tweet away you beautiful people and you could find yourself $100 richer thanks to eSmart Tax and Top Cultured.<br />
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		<title>Caption Contest&#8230; with prizes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Deal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so you may have read about this, but Calvin Klein is letting me give away 4 bottles of their new fragrance for men called ckfree. All you&#8217;ve got to do to enter the contest <a href="http://topcultured.com/caption-contest-with-prizes/">Read On &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, so you may have <a title="ckfree contest" href="http://www.topcultured.com/its-contest-time-free-bottle-of-ckfree" target="_self"><strong>read about this</strong></a>, but Calvin Klein is letting me give away 4 bottles of their new fragrance for men called <em>ckfree</em>. All you&#8217;ve got to do to enter the contest is slap a caption to this photo in the comments section below. The 4 best captions will be chosen by two random followers of the <a title="pop culture twitter" href="http://twitter.com/topcultured" target="_blank"><strong>@TopCultured</strong></a> twitter account. For this reason, make sure you put your <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">real email address</span></strong> in the comment form. Good Luck!! All captions must be submitted by Friday, November 6th, 2009.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/caption_afterifinishthisimgonnafinishYOU.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2895 aligncenter" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;" title="caption contest photo" src="http://www.topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/caption_afterifinishthisimgonnafinishYOU.jpg" alt="caption contest photo" width="550" height="547" /></a></p>
<p>Let the captioning begin in the comments below. You may enter as many times as you&#8217;d like, just remember to include your <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>real email address</strong></span> in the comment form so we can contact you if you&#8217;ve won! All captions must be submitted by Friday, November 6th, 2009.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Contest Time: Free Bottle of ckfree&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://topcultured.com/its-contest-time-free-bottle-of-ckfree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Deal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was sent a bottle of ckfree, the new men&#8217;s fragrence from Calvin Klein and I gotta say, it&#8217;s pretty nice. So I decided to test it out. On Monday, I went through my <a href="http://topcultured.com/its-contest-time-free-bottle-of-ckfree/">Read On &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/youandckfree.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-2885 aligncenter" style="border: 1px solid black;" title="ckfree contest" src="http://www.topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/youandckfree.png" alt="ckfree contest" width="596" height="276" /></a></p>
<p>So, I was sent a bottle of <em>ckfree</em>, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWG3ud7tszw" target="_blank"><strong>new men&#8217;s fragrence from Calvin Klein</strong></a> and I gotta say, it&#8217;s pretty nice. So I decided to test it out. On Monday, I went through my day without wearing <em>ckfree</em> and on Tuesday I did all the same things, except <span style="text-decoration: underline;">with</span> a couple sprays of the cologne. Here are the results:</p>
<p><strong>Monday</strong>: Absolutely no girls came up and talked to me or mentioned anything about the way I smell (which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it).</p>
<p><strong>Tuesday</strong>: Exactly 1 girl mentioned that I smell nice, and, if i had the balls to go along with the <em>ckfree</em>, I would have continued talking to her.</p>
<p>So, what can be learned from this little experiment? Well, that&#8217;s easy&#8230; <strong>Wearing <em>ckfree</em> can get you 100% more chicks than not wearing <em>ckfree</em></strong>.</p>
<p><strong>The best part is that the nice folks at Calvin Klein are letting me give away 4 bottles of <em>ckfree</em> to <a title="pop culture blog" href="http://www.topcultured.com" target="_blank">TopCultured</a> readers. All you&#8217;ve got to do is </strong><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.topcultured.com/caption-contest-with-prizes">caption this photo</a></span> and you&#8217;ll be entered to win, easy peasy!</strong><br />
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Here&#8217;s some more info on the product:</p>
<p>ckfree, inspired by the spirit of the modern, independent man who lives every day to the fullest.  he has nothing to prove. he’s cool, relaxed and free-spirited.  he does what he wants and is in control of his own destiny.</p>
<p>ckfree is an aromatic warm woody fragrance, unexpectedly fresh, yet casual and distinctly masculine.  it opens with an invitation to free the mind with absinthe as a featured note.  the journey continues with an unusual spiciness in the heart and winds it’s way through sensual wood notes offering confidence and depth.</p>
<p>top: thailand star anise, jackfruit, absinthe, juniper berry<br />
mid: suede, tobacco leaves, coffee absolute, south african buchu<br />
dry: patchouli absolute, oakwood, texan cedarwood, costa rican ironwood</p>
<p><strong>the bottle and packaging</strong></p>
<p>the bottle conveys the free spirited nature of the brand and iconic ck simplicity.  a slim profile with masculine beveled edges and various angles create a sense of movement.  the color palette for the bottle reflects an array of blues, drawn from the sky, ocean, trees and the earth.  unpretentious and easy.  the carton is composed of two shades of metallic blue that complement the bottle and convey the simple, modern essence of the fragrance.</p>
<p>eau de toilette spray 1oz/30ml $32.00<br />
eau de toilette spray 1.7oz/50ml $47.00<br />
eau de toilette spray 3.4oz/100ml $62.00<br />
aftershave balm 5.0oz/150ml $42.00<br />
deodorant stick 2.5oz/75g $16.00</p>
<p>for more info, visit <a href="http://calvinkleinfragrances.com/us/ckfree/" target="_blank"><strong>the ckfree website</strong></a><br />
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<strong>DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION</strong>: <a href="http://cmp.ly/2" target="_blank"><strong>http://cmp.ly/2</strong></a><br />
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