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The cast of 'Jersey Shore' isn't terribly popular with some Italian-Americans, who feel that JWoww, The Situation, Snooki and the crew represent some ugly stereotypes. The show is now filming in Florence, Italy, and 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM on NBC) found a lot of Italian-Italians aren't so hot on 'Jersey Shore' either. They asked some people in the street their opinions and spoke with the mayor of Florence, who had trouble understanding what a "Snooki" was.

"They are full of tattoo, they get drunk," one woman in the street said. "I think they are stupid." Another woman said that Italians are not like the 'Jersey Shore' cast does on television.

A lot of Americans mentally record where they were and what they were doing when they first heard that the Berlin Wall had fallen, John F. Kennedy was shot and the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded. But one famous tragedy has remained suspiciously ignored, until now.

This week marked the 39th anniversary of Oregon's famed "exploding whale," a beached whale that washed up on the shores of Florence, Oregon. Officials exploded it with almost half a ton of dynamite because they couldn't think of another way to remove the sea creature from the beach. We know go to reporter Paul Linnman who was live at the scene...


[via The Exploding Whale]