203 articles related to "humor"

World Chess Championship Literally Goes Down The Toilet

Sometimes the cartoon world, at least as reflected in the colorful pictures and captions of mass media, gets so bonkers that a real-world headline would be right at home in a humor magazine. Take the ludicrous bauble that prompted this article. It ap...

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President Of Iran Orders Language Cleansing: Pizza To Be Renamed "Elastic Loaf."

Carefully examining the many threats to Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad detected them even in the foreign words and phrases that have managed to slip into the Persian language. So he sent forth a linguistic proclamation from his well-versed mind ...

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Playwrights Give Critic Bad Review

The art of playwriting is an intricate and nuanced process that requires a great deal of skill, patience, and dedication. Although playwrights strive to produce works that are both entertaining and insightful, they often receive criticism that can be...

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Venezuela Becomes Leading Arms Purchaser; Hugo Chavez Now Looks Like King Crab

Venezuela has recently become the largest arms purchaser in Latin America. Since Hugo Chavez, as the President with dictatorial powers, gets more of the arms shipments than anyone else, he now looks like a king crab. The crab-like impression is incr...

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Hezbollah And Hamas Regret Self-Destructive Behavior; Plan To Build Own Wailing Wall

Leading deadly duffers of Hezbollah and Hamas have finally surveyed the damage that their misjudgment has inflicted on their own people, perhaps partly out of fear that these long-suffering victims might decide to terrorize them. As a result of the ...

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Playwrights Give Critic Bad Review

Members of The Dramatists Guild of America, the organization of playwrights, of which I have been an active member for many years, was in an unusually feisty mood in a review they let howl at a theater critic in the Windy City. What was the occasion ...

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World Chess Championship Literally Goes Down The Toilet

Chess enthusiasts all over the world were left stunned by the news that the trophy for the World Chess Championship had literally gone down the toilet. Yes, that's right – the prestigious trophy, which has been contested by some of the greatest min...

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On Bullshit. Princeton Professor Publishes Lowdown Analysis

Princeton Professor Harry Frankfurt’s 1986 essay “On Bullshit” has been re-examined in light of the proliferation of “fake news” and the impact of politicians who regularly twist the truth or make baseless claims. When Frankfurt originally...

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Hezbollah Stars In Middle East"s First Polish Joke

Recently, the Middle East has found itself in the center of a controversy surrounding a new Polish joke. The joke, which was told on a popular comedy show, revolves around the Hezbollah terrorist group and has sparked outrage among Lebanese and other...

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Queen Finds An Intruder!

Read the humorous adventures of the exiled Queen as she learns to cope with Italian social mores and a complicated political scenario. Ousted by the Republican party after a closely fought referendum(51%) in which the Monarchy is declared an anachron...

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