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Funny story: Man Took Book To Family Gathering

Man Took Book To Family Gathering

Family get-togethers are usually a source of merriment, but when your in-laws are a bunch of retarded, filthy, backwoods beer monkeys who consider that singing out-of-tune to songs blasted out of 6-foot speakers is the height of cultural taste, you m…

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Funny story: Nietzsche Didn't Know What He Was On About, Claims Man

Nietzsche Didn't Know What He Was On About, Claims Man

The 19th-Century German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, is at the centre of a mild controversy tonight, after a man who attempted to read his book, 'Beyond Good and Evil', claimed that he hadn't got the faintest idea what he was talking about. T…

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Funny story: Manchester United Captain Harry Maguire To Write Book About Greek Nightmare

Manchester United Captain Harry Maguire To Write Book About Greek Nightmare

It's what the newspapers have all been waiting for, the scoop of the moment, as the Manchester United captain, Harry Maguire, has announced that he is to commence writing a book documenting his recent nightmare experience on the Greek holiday island…

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Funny story: Man Finds Strange Coincidence In Book

Man Finds Strange Coincidence In Book

There was an extraordinary coincidence this morning, when a man reading a book noticed that the date on which events in the story were taking place, were doing so on 1 November, which was said to be a Sunday - just exactly as it is today, Sunday, the…

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Funny story: Book Had No Page Numbers!

Book Had No Page Numbers!

A man who started to read a new and potentially exciting book yesterday afternoon, was astonished when he opened it up at Chapter 1, only to find the pages had no numbers! 'La Reve' ('The Dream') by noted French writer Émile Zola was the book, and…

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Funny story: Man Would Have Liked To Have Killed Woman In Book

Man Would Have Liked To Have Killed Woman In Book

A man reading a book became so hateful of one of its female characters, that he claims he would have liked to have killed her with his own bare hands, or, in a variety of other ways. The book in question, 'Une Page d'Amour', by Émile Zola, was bei…

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Funny story: Man Just Knew Claude Lantier Was Going To End Up In Bed With Irma Bécot

Man Just Knew Claude Lantier Was Going To End Up In Bed With Irma Bécot

A man who is an enthusiastic reader of French literature, and who was reading 'The Masterpiece' by the French author, Émile Zola, claims he "just knew", with absolute certainty, that the 'hero' of the story was going to end up in bed with Irma Bécot…

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Funny story: Anti-lockdown literature regulations are harsh but necessary

Anti-lockdown literature regulations are harsh but necessary

The writer Brenda O’Lox is being hunted after breaching government anti-lockdown literature regulations. Her online story, ‘I haven’t seen anyone in three months, and also my Rabbit’s batteries are dead’, was regarded as ‘too earnest’. ‘If the sto…

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Funny story: Woman Wore Yellow Hat

Woman Wore Yellow Hat

There were dropped jaws and a few sideways glances on a train in France earlier today, when a woman was seen wearing a yellow beret-style hat. The woman, a pretty young girl aged about 24, was sitting in a third-class carriage on the Paris to Méda…

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Funny story: Man Still Hasn't Resumed Reading 'The Idiot'

Man Still Hasn't Resumed Reading 'The Idiot'

A man who embarked upon the serious business of reading Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky's epic, 'The Idiot', but then had to put it down 40% of the way through the book because of 'information overload', still hasn't resumed reading it, and furt…

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Funny story: Man Wasn't Aware That Author Had Died From Syphilis

Man Wasn't Aware That Author Had Died From Syphilis

It's not usually the sort of thing most people consider when they pick up a book to read it, but when one man started reading at the weekend, he could hardly have been less prepared for the news he was about to learn about the nature of the author's…

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Funny story: Man Reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' Forced To Abandon It After 'Brain Freeze'

Man Reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' Forced To Abandon It After 'Brain Freeze'

A man who had taken on the literary challenge of reading the literary classic, 'The Idiot' by Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky, has revealed how he became so bogged down in the author's excessively verbose style, that he felt obliged, on health gr…

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Funny story: Crime And Punishment By Dostoevsky Could Have Been 200 Pages Shorter, Says Man

Crime And Punishment By Dostoevsky Could Have Been 200 Pages Shorter, Says Man

A man who read the literary classic, 'Crime and Punishment' by Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky, says he enjoyed the book, but that, in his humble opinion, it was "a bit wordy", and could, easily, have been 200 pages shorter. Moys Kenwood, 57, re…

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Funny story: Charles Darwin, 'On The Origin Of Species', Spotted In Hindley Charity Shop

Charles Darwin, 'On The Origin Of Species', Spotted In Hindley Charity Shop

It's always a nice surprise to find something unexpected when one is rummaging around in charity or secondhand shops, and that was precisely what one man experienced as he rifled through some book shelves in a shop in Hindley, near Wigan. Moys Ken...

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Funny story: Nashville Man Notes that Sun Also Sets but Appreciates Hemingway's Positivity

Nashville Man Notes that Sun Also Sets but Appreciates Hemingway's Positivity

Ian McNee of Nashville, Tennessee, couldn't help but note that, in addition to coming up every day as documented in Ernest Hemingway's classic The Sun Also Rises, the sun sets without fail every night, but he appreciates Hemingway's intentional focus...

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Funny story: Spoof Writer's Book On Amazon Was A Bit Pricey

Spoof Writer's Book On Amazon Was A Bit Pricey

A man who was looking into the affairs of a writer on the satirical news website, TheSpoof.com, was astonished to find that a book written by that writer was listed on www.Amazon.com at a rather pricey $965.90, which took some believing, I can tell y...

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Funny story: Van Gogh Revolver To Be Used In Artwork Installation

Van Gogh Revolver To Be Used In Artwork Installation

The art world has been 'turned on its head' this weekend with the news that the 7mm Lefaucheux revolver with which artist Vincent van Gogh shot himself on 27 July, 1890, is, itself, to become part of an artwork installation. Van Gogh survived the...

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