The Scuttlebutt Review reports that a homeless man who works the street corners of Manhattan has come up with the novel idea of taking credit cards in lieu of money. Norman F. Charwick, 57, who has been working the street corner of Lexington Avenu…
Despite having months during lockdown to work on his chordal knowledge, his plectrum technique, his tuning, stage presence and projection, and his repertoire of songs, busker Shane Meadowfield is still no better. The talentless troubadour, who has…
Washington DC - Our mole in the Ways and Means committee reports that the rules of parliamentary procedure are to go the way of the dodo bird and the Bill of Rights. Tough economic times dictate that the government reinvent itself in a form that w...
In a hastily drawn-up statement written on the back of an old copy of the Big Issue, the BABS (British Association of Beggars and Scroungers) announced that it could no longer take responsibility for its members actions. Earlier this morning, a gr...
The effects of this most confusing condition are truly bewildering. So I am doubly grateful for your time and understanding today. I, for example, have the random dislocation variant of the disorder, but there are many other ways in which sentences may be mixed, transposed or swapped. Donations will be gratefully received and will help us to work towards the rehabilitation of sufferers. This is th...
Sociologists at Loughborough University have tested out the old phrase "Beggars Cannot Be Choosers" to see how much truth it holds. "We had a blank week between identifying the next big thing and solving the riddle of the supermarket checkout queu...
That age-old mantra, "It's the economy stupid" has been growing in resonance across the world. And while words like TARP; stimulus; bail-out and sub-prime have become part of our everyday lexicon, ordinary people are being forced into situations uni...
A new law has been passed whereby anyone caught begging will be chopped up and fed to the animals in the local zoo for supper. The law could also be extended to include charity collectors and buskers - two of the vilest, most wretched forms of org...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The death of a deeply loved man strikes the Big Apple to its core, as the streets fill with mourners this Saturday afternoon. Miles Johnson, a local beggar known by thousands, was stricken by a freak lightning bolt in broad dayli...
The UK Government has announced plans to set up a border fence to run parallel with the ancient Roman wall built by Adrian Mole and have armed border guards to patrol it to deter illegal Scottish Immigrants reaching London Tube Stations. "Everyday...
Unfettered fury erupted in the High court earlier today when Romanian beggar Aberama Stanka, 39, was awarded sole begging rights to some of Central London's most famous and popular tourist attractions under ancient vagrancy laws revealed this week i...
Britain's second largest bank, Royal Thistle Bank of Scotland, is to ask passerby for about £10bn of extra cash to improve its financial position and meet its quarterly shortfall.
Heather Mills, the newest addition to Britain's Rich List, has been arrested by police in London, after she was caught begging outside Kings Cross railway station today.
Thousands starve, or turn to begging, crime, and thievery.
Revelations that heart-throb Colin Farrell spent hours begging for sexual favours from 70-year-old actress Dame Eileen Atkins may have set many hearts a-fluttering amongst those in the autumn of their lives.
You can beg an idiot for a lot but remember, you must never harm the idiot. The senses react to pain. Now, if you were to provide honey to an idiot, that idiot might be sufficiently attracted to remaining a fool!...
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