WILSHIRE, VERMONT – A time-honored Christmas prank played repeatedly over the years by the Jensen boys of Wilshire, Vermont, surprised a few of them this week when a carefully placed pine cone in a walnut bowl proved to be 20% funnier than last year’s version. The informal study, conducted in the living room as […]
YOUR BEDROOM – In what otherwise was an uneventful and restful sleep in your king-size bed featuring a Serta mattress, your dreams unexpectedly took a turn last night when German Chancellor Angela Merkel emerged from a forbidding forest to give you the location of a crucial cheat code for Red Dead Redemption 2. […]
TUSCALOOSA, AL – A federal judge this week released a local man who had been on death row for fourteen years after new evidence was discovered showing he was at the beach the entire time during the week of the murder. Calendars Do Not Lie “The calendar, which was found by the defendant’s […]
DURBIN, SD – In the latest of a long line of personal relationships that have not worked out, South Dakota resident Steven Willbest was fooled once again by an international spy posing as a girlfriend who really cared about him. “Jeez, you’d think I would have learned by now,” he said, nursing a beer […]
MONTCLAIR, KY – Like the couple in the 1979 pop song “Escape,” who answer the same personals ad and find out they were both trying to cheat on each other, Mary Beth Tisdole and Martin Grossbeek shared a good laugh this week after discovering each other’s fake profiles on the dating site Tinder. “I […]
MENLO PARK, CA – Outlining a bright future ahead during an impromptu meeting of the 7th floor staff this week, co-worker Steve got the sales team excited when he announced Casual Fridays would be a permanent perk for all employees in the operations division. Cheering broke out as the staff high-fived and celebrated the […]
LITTLE ITALY, NY – Saying he was “most unhappy” with developments in the recent Russiagate investigation, and that “a man’s privacy must be respected always,” Don Vito Corleone expressed disappointment Tuesday over the seizure of attorney Michael Cohen’s records by the NY office of the FBI. Mr. Corleone, a Sicilian-born immigrant and head of […]
NEW YORK, NY – Thinking he was joining a tour group embarking on a fun-filled 13-day vacation excursion to Eastern Europe, Paul Manafort expressed surprise on Tuesday when told he was actually among a group of Russian diplomats at JFK International airport who were on their way back to Moscow after being expelled from […]
TRAVIS, NH – A local ‘peeping tom’, with several restraining orders filed against him for peering into the windows of nearby houses, played the good Samaritan yesterday when he went out of his way to make you aware of a potentially hazardous condition in your chimney. The creeper, who pilots a six-prop drone equipped […]
BROOKLYN, NY – Errole Sanders has fond memories of his childhood growing up in the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn. And among his favorite recollections are the pickup basketball games with his friends at a nearby park that would last until after dark, when their mothers would call them home for dinner and to […]