Monthly Archives: November 2009

“Is It, Like, Any Wonder People Don’t Come Downtown Anymore, With the Veterans Day Parade Cluttering Up Our Streets?”

Commentary by Noah Swayne, Jr., Carbolic Teen Critic When I’m not knockin’ boots with the GF or waitering at BRAVO! making some serious cheddar, I’m downtown chillaxin with my boys, fo’ shiggidy my weeble!  But downtown is shitty on Veterans Day, dude.  I

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Weather Channel President Issues Apology For Lackluster Hurricane Season

ATLANTA - Weather Channel President Mike Kelly issued a public apology last night for what he called a “lackluster” hurricane season. Mr. Kelly made his remarks in a rare prime-time appearance on his own network. “Like many of you, I am

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Obama to Hold Fort Hood Beer Summit with Maj. Hasan and Sgt. Munley

WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced that President Obama has invited Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, and Sgt. Kimberly Munley, the police officer who brought him down, to the White House to “lower the temperature” about the incident over

Posted in Extras, U.S. News

Afghan School Board Debates Merits of Capital Punishment In Schools

KABUL – The Swat Valley School Board was the scene of a contentious debate last night between Taliban educators and parents over the issue of capital punishment in the classroom. Dr. Ahmed Ahmed Ahmed, who described himself as a “leading

Posted in International News

Political Pundits: Obama, Not Reagan, Responsible For Fall of Berlin Wall

BERLIN - A summit of journalists from the world’s leading news outlets has put to rest the Western myth that former U.S. President Ronald Reagan played a significant role role in the fall of the Berlin Wall by drawing the Soviet Union into an arms race that

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Fred Rogers Memorial Combined With WW II Memorial To Save Space

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Military Psychiatrist Goes On Shooting Rampage

FORT HOOD – Dr. Alfred Bellows snapped after repeatedly failing to prove that Maj. Anthony “Tony” Nelson was “up to something.”

Posted in Crime

Wal-Mart Now Hiring Actors to Play Fat White Women With Biracial Kids To Give Its Stores “Discount Feel”

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart announced that for the holiday season, it is looking to double the number of actors it uses to portray overweight, Caucasian female shoppers who waddle down its stores’ aisles with biracial children. “The women need to be anywhere from 80

Posted in Economy

No Matter What Rep. Steny Hoyer Whispered, Speaker Pelosi Was Determined To Change It “To Something Funny” When She Whipered It To The Next Person

Posted in Politics

Atta Says His Seventy-Two Virgins Are Homely, Frigid

PARADISE – Mohammed Atta, the homicidal maniac who, along with nineteen others, hijacked planes and flew them into buildings on September 11, 2001, is unhappy with the seventy-two virgins he received as a result of his martyr’s death. Mr. Atta

Posted in International News

Kidnapped UK Couple Gives Somali Captors’ Accommodations an Abysmal 1.5 Rating

Paul and Rachel Chandler, the British couple captured by Somali pirates on their yacht in the Indian Ocean, have written a review of their accommodations aboard their captors’ ship: Never again We travel often and were very, very disappointed with

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Local Man “Finally Right” After He Gets “Daylight Saving” Hour Back

NEW YORK - Local U.S. letter carrier Noah Swayne says he is “finally right” after daylight savings time ended early yesterday morning and he “got that hour of sleep back.”  Swayne claims that ever since daylight saving time took effect last spring, he has suffered a continuous stream of

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Mercury Theater Broadcast of “An Inconvenient Truth” Creates National Panic

NEW YORK – The Mercury Theater production of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” which aired last Friday night on the Columbia Broadcasting System, is being blamed for creating a national scare that sent tens of thousands of listeners into a

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