203 articles related to "humor"

Senate Offers Outlet For Bipartisan Feuding: Will Install Boxing Ring

The Senate, recently more rancorous than usual in terms of bipartisan backbiting, decided to offer an outlet for the aggressive behavior by voting to install a boxing ring. In an effort to allow for the widespread lack of physical conditioning, all f...

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New Surgeon General"s Warning: Caution: Eating Spinach May Be Hazardous To Your Health

The surgeon general, noting the widely publicized outbreak of e.coli in 20 or so states, has issued a new health warning on spinach. There were, of course, comments aplenty in the press about the possible effects on Popeye, The Sailor Man. But what ...

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Idiotic Human Behavior Traced To Greenhouse Gases

An innovative study by an environmental scientist attempts to explain the recent uptick in idiotic human behavior. According to the resourceful researcher, the likely culpret is the abundant supply of greenhouse gases. As a result of their ascendance...

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Omnipotent Weapon Enlisted To Halt Nuclear Proliferation: The Almighty Dollar

The Bush administration has finally turned in its battle against nuclear proliferation to the one Western weapon that is apparently downright omnipotent:The Almighty Dollar. Washington has begun to employ the mighty new weapon to cut off Iran and No...

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Music Biz Ails; Columbia Hires Canary As Consultant

The music business has found the answer to its mounting ails, which all the iPod world knows: album sales being replaced by singles downloads, Tower Records closing, and Borders apparently not having a clue about what music to stock. But now there s...

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Easy Ways To Save Money & Abundance Revisited

A penny saved is a penny earned so they say. Today most people want to save all the pennies they can, in fact if you look after the pennies the "pounds" will look after themselves. Now I'm not saying you should be a cheapskate but if you go aro...

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Iranian Woman Is First Female Space Tourist; Agrees To Wear Spacesuit

In 2006, Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari made history as the first female space tourist. She spent more than a week in space, orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station, and became a symbol of women's progress in science ...

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Urgent Search For New Islamic Sect, Called Smiley Muslims

As Shiites and Sunnis continue to knock each other off in Iraq and rant against the West, the search for a new Muslim sect has become urgent. The revolutionary spin off, to be called Smiley Muslims, has only one religious duty: smiling. No member...

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Bin Laden Reevaluates Business Model

Osama Bin Laden, reportedly hiding in a mud hut in the wilds of the remote tribal region of Pakistan or, due to a lifetime of luxurious pampering and his need for dialysis, holed up in a basement in Karachi or dilating in the splendors of a well-disp...

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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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