Discussion Forum

Forum Home / Login / Register

This forum does not allow guest posting. You must register to participate in this forum.

Messages ordered by earliest posts first
All times are GMT

Forum Home / News Discussion / Lockdown Opens Doors for Key Workers

[This topic is LOCKED]

Author

Message

Forumbot
Automated

Posted: 2 May 20 15:08

Extract from Story:
LOCKSMITHS have reported booming sales since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. While many businesses have been struggling during the tight restrictions, key workers have never been so busy. Reg Dwight, owner of key-cutting and lock fitting business, Surelock Homes, said the upturn is a mystery. "I don't understand it," he said. "People have been coming into the shop, shaking my hand,.....

Click here for full story »

Please discuss at will.
PLEASE NOTE: The story you are discussing is a JOKE. It is a SPOOF NEWS story written on a SPOOF NEWS website.

Monkey Woods

Dirty Ape

Location: Planet Earth
Registered: 29 Dec 06

Forum Profile
Writer's Profile

Posted: 2 May 20 15:08

Nice.

5

Dewani Unhatched

Writer

Location: Fort Lauderdale
Registered: 4 Dec 18

Forum Profile
Writer's Profile

Posted: 2 May 20 17:55

Clever. I loved it.

Reggie "Rex" Stain

Writer

Location: Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Registered: 13 Apr 20

Forum Profile
Writer's Profile

Posted: 2 May 20 20:16

. . . and immediately took pole position on the homepage, in spite of it being submitted just today. Bravo!

Gerry Hatrick

Writer

Location: Farflungflington, England
Registered: 8 Apr 20

Forum Profile
Writer's Profile

Posted: 2 May 20 21:27

Thank you chaps and/ or chapesses. Could really be a single line gag that and strangely the dyslexic Elvis poster copywriter story which I worked on for ages, tickled me more.

If only we knew the formula..............it wouldn't be half as much fun.

Thelonius

Writer

Registered: 7 Dec 11

Forum Profile
Writer's Profile

Posted: 2 May 20 23:06

Good story. Good spirit.

Erskin Quint

Opium-eater
Erskin Quint

Registered: 15 Oct 07

Forum Profile
Writer's Profile

Posted: 3 May 20 17:02

Yes, good jokes, well spotted.

I like the Major Tom one too.

Monkey Woods

Dirty Ape

Location: Planet Earth
Registered: 29 Dec 06

Forum Profile
Writer's Profile

Posted: 3 May 20 17:12

Yes, so did I.

I gave him 5 for that as well.

Any opinions expressed here are purely the opinions of the contributors and are not necessarily the opinions of The Spoof, its staff or the original writer of the spoof news/parody/satire story.

Go to top

Forum permissions

You are not logged in.

You cannot create new topics in this forum
You cannot post new messages in this forum
You cannot add polls
You cannot link to external images in this forum
You cannot upload images in this forum
You cannot upload files in this forum

Who is online?

There are no registered users currently online.