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Bank Robbery in Virtual Daylight

By Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk,
Nov. 23rd, 2009

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In what authorities are calling the first virtual bank robbery in American history, a bandit made off with nearly $40 million in virtual currency late yesterday afternoon.

The daring daylight heist occurred at a Newark, NJ bank when a man walked up to a teller window and held up his iPhone. On it was a photo of a 9mm automatic pistol.

The bank robber then said, "Give me all your money... and don’t try anything cute or I’ll show you a picture of the bullets!"

Brave but not foolish, the teller immediately raced to the bank’s main vault, used her own cell phone to photograph all the money stored there and zapped the multi-million-dollar snapshots to the robber, who was anxiously waiting at her teller window. continued »

With virtual cash in hand, the robber raced into the street to escape in his virtual Maserati but quickly realized his getaway car was completely out of virtual gas.

Undaunted, he google-mapped the nearest subway entrance and disappeared.

With virtually no clues to go on, authorities were left scratching their collective heads.

Rating: 2.3/5 (163 votes cast)

Taking a Strong Stand on Bland

By Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk,
Nov. 19th, 2009

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Facing pungent competition from your Goudas, your Colbys, your Swiss, the U.S. cottage cheese industry is reportedly considering a name change.

“This is not your grandmother’s cottage cheese, or whatever we end up calling it,” said Jack Monterey, a nationally recognized cheese analyst. “We’ve got to get it off the diet plates and in there with your deli cheeses, your stinky cheeses, your Euro cheeses.”

Cheese historians tell us that the product is called cottage cheese because before the Civil War people made it in cottages, after the butter was churned.

“Crikey, how is some kid who grew up on microwaved Pop Tarts and kashi going to relate to that?” Monterey asked. continued »

Monterey said that among the early suggestions were Condo Cheese, Co-Op Cheese and Townhouse Cheese, reflecting the historic housing theme while updating it.

“Not the way to cut the cheese,” said renowned cheese maker Stilton de Bleau. “They need to work on the marketing, to go big. Let’s face it, this stuff is little on the bland side.”

Not everyone is on board with the campaign.

“First of all: ick,” said cable TV celebrity chef Iris Fromages. “There isn’t enough sea salt or hot peppers or blueberries on the planet to make those curds interesting. Maybe they should call it Kurdish cheese. I wouldn’t eat it on death row.”

“They should leave well enough alone,” said Tommy Tapioca, a spokesman for Minimally Invasive Cheeses (MIC), a cheese activist group.

“A nice scoop of cottage cheese, a room-temperature canned peach and a lettuce leaf going brown - now that’s good eatin.’”

Rating: 2.2/5 (163 votes cast)

Lost Luggage Charges to Begin

By Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk,
Nov. 16th, 2009

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The U.S. airline industry today announced that it would immediately begin charging passengers for losing their luggage.

Industry spokesman Howard “Tough” Nuggies. said that effective immediately passengers would be charged $15 for the first bag lost by the airline. Each subsequent lost bag would cost the passenger $10.

Nuggies said that, with new technology that has been in development for years, the airlines will now be able to lose all baggage.

“We’re dedicated to 100 percent efficiency,” he said. “And we know we can do it.”

“As always,” added Nuggies, “we are doing this to serve our customers better. Think of the time people will save. No more waiting for hours at baggage claim! No more hoping against hope to see their pathetic little suitcase again. No more broken hearts.” continued »

Nuggies said the program will be called “Check ’em and Forget ’em.”

Passengers will check their bags, pay the checked-bag fee and the lost-bag fee at the same time and then never worry about their bags again. Or, for that matter, ever see their bags again.

“What could be more convenient for everyone?” asked Nuggies. “Nothing! That’s what. And believe me, as soon as we figure out how to deliver ‘nothing’ — and charge for it — that’s exactly what you’ll get. Nothing!”

In a related development, airlines are also developing plans for charging passengers for losing their lunch.

“No more free barf bags,” said Nuggies. “You want to throw up, you can throw up on your own ... your own lap, that is.”

Rating: 2.1/5 (150 votes cast)

Some Pot in Every Pot

By Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk,
Nov. 13th, 2009

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Today they call it the White House Rose Garden, but a recent discovery indicates perhaps it should have been called the Field of Dreams.

After a DEA drug-sniffing cocker spaniel began digging furiously during a presidential presentation, agents followed the pooch into a storage area in the basement, where they found clear evidence that the White House garden was once used to grow hemp.

Seeds found in an old paper bag in the back of a drawer of the desk used by Thomas Jefferson while he was president, will be used to return the Rose Garden to its original, natural state.

It is a well known fact that both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington grew large quantities of hemp on their estates. When they served their terms in the White House, hemp was a legal cash crop. continued »

Several historic sources, who are dead but still wish to remain anonymous, ardently claim that not all the hemp grown at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, was used to make rope. Much of it was burned so White House staffers could stand in the smoke. Just for laughs. Or, as Jefferson said, “We hold these ... hee-hee-hee ... we hold these ... tee-hee! We hold these roaches to be ... ouch! Burned my fingers.”

A number of amendments to the constitution were actually written while standing around White House hemp bonfires. In fact, the original draft of the Bill of Rights had 14 amendments, but four were eliminated when everyone straightened out and realized they were gibberish.

“Congress shall make no law affected zibbledorp,” was the original text of the Eleventh Amendment.

The Fourteenth Amendment said, “Wow! Did thee ever really look at thy hand?”

Ben Franklin, always a head of his time, is given credit for inventing the bong using an empty wine barrel and a reed pulled from the Potomac River.

This may explain why Franklin was flying a kite in a thunderstorm. Although, again according to reliable sources, he swore, “I never inhaled.”

Or maybe he said “exhaled.”

Rating: 2.3/5 (155 votes cast)

Bo Bite Ramps up Terror Alert

By Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk,
Nov. 10th, 2009

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In a bizarre turn of events, presidential dog, Bo, has changed the course of history, or at least held it up for a few days.

Late last evening, as President Obama was unwinding in the White House "Red Room" after a long day of perusing Afghanistan field reports and deciding whether it would be better for Rahm Emanuel to threaten John Boehner with a wood or aluminum bat, Bo, the all-too-precious family dog accidentally bit the president’s bill-signing hand. As a result, the process of turning poorly conceived piles of congressional paper into laws will be put on hold until at least Friday. continued »

Sergeant Harvey Bark, duty officer attached to the West Wing Canine Cleanup Corps, better known as WWCCC, speculated that Bo was actually going for the double bacon cheeseburger the president was holding. If the president had scarfed down that burger like a normal American, this would never have happened. Instead, he was waving it around while trying to make some presidential point. Bo missed the point, but not the hand.

Caught off-guard by this unprecedented event, the Department of Homeland Security raised the national Terror Alert Level to the newly created “Scorching Indigo.”

One of the president's most ardent detractors, former Republican presidential candidate/pop-cultist Mitt Romney, was quick to exclaim, “This is a national disgrace! Ronald Reagan would never have allowed his own dog to bite him. I’m not even sure Jimmy Carter would have let that happen, and he was attacked by an amphibious rabbit!"

Neither Bo or his press secretary, Philroy Lynx were available for comment.

Rating: 2.0/5 (151 votes cast)

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