London - Writers hoping to contact elusive billionaire Spoof website owner Mark Lowton got a shock this morning when the new messaging service fee came into effect.
The measure is thought to be a practical solution to the thousands of cyber beggin...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ABSNN) - Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called the first ever "Emergency Press Conference" to inform reporters and the American Public that "A horrendous, unstoppable computer retro-virus will strike every English speaking comput...
The gang came together after several of its members had been locked out of their local pubs by the Moderators, a notorious head hunting crew that preyed on people using profanity and bad diction.
In one night alone, the Moderators closed seven public houses. Each member of the Cole Hole gang had been sent home from their local after falling foul of the Mods. Capo, Clive Danton remembers his fir...
Local man, Martin Shuttlecock, celebrated late into the night this morning as he was informed that he'd won third prize in a prestigious writing tournament yesterday for the Spoof dot com, the internet's leading satire site and refuge for life's waif...
Carol Spritzer is launching the Isle of Wight News 'Pride of The Isle Awards 2011' nominations appeal, in partnership with Littleworths.web.
Each year she gets teary when she sees the winners and listens to their stories. This year will be no dif...
TheSpoof.com editor Mark Lowton was at a loss yesterday as news leaked out that a horde of illicit material, missing from his site for over a month, and worth millions of points, had been found by SEAL team 6 in the Pakistan raid that took out Bin La...
Local bar-restaurant famous for its micro-brewed "Skoob Lagers" and weekly Fried Haggis-on-a-Stick specials, was at the center of several Disturbing the Peace complaints this past Wednesday, resulting in 12 arrests.
Apparently stemming from a bar...
The eccentric, elusive editor of TheSpoof.com, Mark Lowton, has sent out an urgent plea for spoof writers to submit their stories quickly before the solar storm hits this world some time in the next couple of years.
He told In Seine News today: "I...
Ageism and its 'fallout', could, indeed, be 'hitting' the pages of The Spoof within the month.
It is rumoured that the owner of this popular site is getting a little tired of the 'older' writers as they often appear to be under the infuluence of medications, or other 'mind altering substances' when they write.
He accepts that many older writers are suffering from arthritis, high blood pres...
Well, here are the top ten reasons why I think Mark ought to be Britain's next Prime Minister....starting with 10 and going up to the TOP reason....
10. He knows how to enjoy a good joke.
9. He can curse like a sailor.
8. He already has hundreds, if not thousands, of people who would vote for him.
7. He is always 'honest'.
6. He already knows how to be 'diplomati...
TheSpoof.com Editor in Chief, Mark Lowton, apologized for the temporary shut down of the popular humour site after it was overwhelmed with hundreds of thousands of submissions from veteran as well as long missing writers after he announced his "Holi...
It's official.
The highly effective editor of "The Spoof" website has been voted the United Kingdom's "Weirdest Crush", in a new poll run by the obscene magazine "What?"
The magazine that noboby has ever heard of asked the entire UK population...
The UK headquarters of The Spoof was the scene of a major protest yesterday. Ever since The Spoof ratings system was changed -- having readers rate stories with thumbs up rather than stars -- the stars had been quietly fuming.
They had been f...
Mark Lowton, the owner and editor of The Spoof, an on-line humour magazine, scheduled a conference for this year for all of the Spoof Writers living in a geographic area. Invitations were mailed, hotel reservations were made, entertainment was booke...
I sit here writing, and all the while I fear for my life.
Mark Lowton stares at me.
I try to concentrate on something other than his gaze but it is impossible not to be unnerved by his demonic eyes.
Those cold, emotionless peepers focused on me.
Those same cold emotionless eyes with their almost non-existent eyebrows.
Those high cheekbones. High as a soaring eagle. Don Henley in a gl...
The US Senate announced today that their new internet control bill will place Homeland Security Chief and Pants Suit Maven Janet Napitalano in charge of 'throwing the switch' at her discretion to protect 'the integrity of the government. (sic)
Na...
Reports concerning the announced Spoof Summit Meeting tentatively penciled in for 'sometime in August' have taken on a sinister air amidst heightened security concerns due to "abnormal cell phone traffic and Forum Postings originating in Ireland" a...
Mark Lowton has run afoul of the law again for hawking nude pictures of Cheryl Cole taken from the Hubble telescope.
Lowton managed to take the pictures by brazenly walking into the NASA control centre in Houston with a cup of coffee in one hand w...