Isle of Wight residents are reminded to move their calendars forward tonight to 2013. Despite the annual spring reminder and widespread use of the Internet there are many hold outs to sharing the 2013 calendar across the island with many communities...
Police have made thousands of arrests after people illegally turned their clocks back by one hour last night instead of waiting to do so at the now legally required time of 2am. Police were out in force across the UK last night making spot checks...
Millions of 02 customers turned up late for work this morning, all with the same excuse: they overslept because their alarm failed to go off. "It sounds like a lame excuse," said O2 customer liaison officer, Tom O'Byle. "And in many ways it is. Ho...
Leaders of the Britain's biggest public sector union have proposed industrial action if employers do not pay workers for the extra second that is being inserted into the calendar on June 30th. At midnight on June 30th, one second is due to be adde...
Well here we are. Many of you are unawares of the meaning behind the St. John's Voodoo holiday coming up Sunday, June 24. It's a harmless holiday really, a lot of chasing and shagging while waving potables not fit for either end, actually.
The US Navy has this problem with clocks. And to be fair, we can't blame the gobs out there chipping the paint. That's navy life. Earlier this month, the spoof scooped the potato, the carrot AND the onion.com's when the International Dateline malfunctioned and the US Navy responded with force to escort June in. The spoof's spook speaks time and again! But would anyone listen? Now it tu...
Tim Travola of Glasgow has been a massive fan of the novel HG Wells's The Time Machine since being eight years old. So much so, that it is the only book he has ever read, since discovering it. "I got to the point where I had to have it playing in the car while I drove," said Travola. "Then I started to wish I could have the audio version as read by the author." Unfortunately for Travola, HG...
A local woman has lashed out at the workings of the universe following the realisation that her birthday fell on a Sunday. She claims that if the universe had been better arranged, she would not face going to work on Monday with a hangover. Mrs...
Scientists at Cambridge University have successfully lobbied the World Athletics Federation to adopt their new Vague Timing System as the official timing system of the Olympics. "With many countries having different timing mechanisms, we feel this...
More people than ever before now spend most of their spare time 'passing time'. In a recent European survey of several thousand people (who were just hanging about), over 90% of them said their main pastime was passing the time. "A few years ag...
Dateline Bern, Switzerland, day after tomorrow: Quantum researchers exploring the bizarre world of "string theory", "quantum entanglements", "replicating clothes hangers" , "single socks" and other unexplained phenomenon which A.Einstein will one day...
Last night the International Date Line, the boundary line between 'today' and 'tomorrow' was stolen by a group of metaphysical criminals calling themselves the 'Time Lords'. Since it's inception in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference, the Date Line has been tucked safely away in the middle of the Pacific ocean at 180 degrees Longitude. This morning the Date Line finds itself slap bang in...
Following a week of shock revelations and all manner of hullabaloo, there have been warnings of more to come. The times they are a changing and that's not all, people are going and coming, regimes are changing and the hand that ticks and tocks awa...
The UN announced today that the year of 2012 is to be postponed. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, spoke of the unanimous UN vote. 'The outlook for the global economy is extremely uncertain,' he explained. 'There is political i...
Brian Cox, the rising star of television astronomy, has been asked to explain the entire universe, all that has happened, all that will happen, how it happens and what is going on right now across the entire visible universe. In four hour long episod...
Proposals to put Britain on "Double Summertime" will be published by the Government as part of a new strategy for tourism this week They will involve putting the clocks forward an extra hour to bring the country in line with the rest of Europe.
Carlton Hennings of the Psychological Institute of Swindon, Sussex heard the phrase "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" when he was very young. Being a keen analytical thinker, he decided that he would try and determine whether there was any truth in this Old Wives Tale. "From the age of nine I have followed a strict regime," said Hennings, now fifty-eight...
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