UK intelligence agency GCHQ has spent weeks attempting to decipher a secret WWII message found on a dead pigeons leg that was discovered up a chimney in leafy Surrey.
After initially appealing to the public for help they've finally cracked it them...
Eugene, OR - Self-declared "virgin" and Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones was having a rough season. Four years after a stumble on the ninth hurdle cost her a gold medal at the Beijing games, Jones didn't seem to have even a remote shot at redemption. Enter...
Maintenance crews repairing the hairline fracture in Dorking Swimming Pool have discovered a large trapdoor leading to previously undiscovered underground chambers.
"The pool was constructed originally in 1870," said pool manager, Captain Jeremiah...
Ed Sheeran may be the gingerist acoustic guitar player on the planet, but he likes to stay grounded in reality. He admitted earlier in the week that he frequently goes back to his busking roots and stands outside shops in town centres singing a varie...
A box of secret documents from WW2 were discovered this week in a long-forgotten chill-out room at the Ministry of Defence in London. The documents detail British weapons research during the war, and are so unbelievable that they could almost have been invented for a Channel 5 documentary. A Channel 5 documentary on them will be aired later this week.
Many of the planned weapons never came to f...
Washington DC - The Bush Administration will go down in history as the "Prankster Presidency," according to revelations made in a classified chapter of former Vice President Dick Cheney's recently published memoirs.
The top-secret material, which...
Boys who went to a mixed school will remember Home Economics, or Home Ec as it was affectionately known. This was a lesson solely for girls.
Many were the stories that abounded about what went on in Home Ec.
So what did girls learn in that lesson explicitly for them?
In a rather sexist way, the main topic in Home Ec was cooking and looking after a home with skills such as ironing and rep...
It had to happen one day, Manchester United's WAGs found a way to earn extra spending money by selling some of their 'bedroom secrets' to a reporter.
Players' names weren't mentioned for obvious reasons, but the players in question will recognize...
Stepehen Fry recently admitted to taking cocain in order to calm him down and do difficult crosswords. A detailed interview will be coming out later this year.
This news came as no surprise to a number of Spoof Writers who took this opportunity to admit to some of their 'addictions'. Addictions -or rather strange rituals which they purport, actually DO help them with their 'art' - writing art...
THESPOOF.COM, UNITED WEBSITES OF INTERNET - Mark Lowton, editor, admin, and sole coder of popular user-generated humour site, TheSpoof.com, accidentally made a coding error.
When updated the site to be compatible with HTML5 coding and video embedd...
The civilized world is up in arms at the latest news that a soldier was able to hack into government computers and pass on secrets. It is alleged that this was all down to a simple lack of security.
Some of these secrets will soon be made public u...
Chicago, IL - Oprah Winfrey announced to the world that she is Barack Obama's birth father.
Winfrey had been running advertisements referencing a huge family secret that she says, shook her to her core, and today she revealed that she is the biol...
Undisclosed location, Earth - The quarterly joint meeting between the Illuminati and The Bilderberg Group turned out to interesting (this time) to the masses of "lower-class citizens".
It seems the Illuminati and Bilderbergs have gone completely o...
Back during the last years of glorious Wwii, the Department of War filmed a series of movies entitled "Why We Fight." They showed the Germans rounding up millions of Jews and killing them. The purpose of the movies was to enrage the American GI's a...
London - (Rioters): A military police search of the Ministry of Defence HQ in Whitehall is underway to establish the identity of whoever leaked Foxtons property firm's secret client list.
Described as a 'highly sensitive and valuable' database the...
PENTA-GONE: The shit has hit the fan. Nothing new in Wikileaks release of over 90,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan other than the biggest "un-secret" has now been made public.
Is anybody really surprised that Pakistan has been double-dea...
Part two in a series of unique and little known attractions hidden within the world's most popular destinations.
Not a Silly Island
Though pronounced exactly the way one might read phonetically, these beautiful islands off the western coast of the United Kingdom are properly referred to as the "Isles of Scilly". Perhaps most popular or best known to travelers from the U.K. and Western Europe,...
Part one in a series of unique and little known attractions hidden within the world's most popular destinations.
Fish Rock
While the vast majority of visitors to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming will stick to the main roads and visit the most popular attractions, others who prefer a bit more adventure can find other interesting landmarks off the beaten path.
While Ansel Adams received t...