Eager to improve his life, Johnny Clapper of Nashville, Tennessee, took serious note of a neighbor’s passing remark that people reap what they sow – and was concerned when he realized that he himself wasn’t sowing anything. “At first I thought tha...
Red faces were very much in vogue in Hollywood after last nights Oscars. A delivery person, carrying a long wooden tray of salad ingredients was sent by security staff to the front entrance of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, instead of the servan...
The British tourist board have finally issued a warning to all holiday makers heading for Europe in the next few weeks, especially those thinking of journeying to the Rhine Valley, a tour of the war memorials or a city break to a broken city. "Bas...
Residents of the Isle of Wight are 'raking it in' exporting cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce to all parts of the world. This small island, ignored by many, is now on the lips of millions of people worldwide as they begin to eat salad items again wi...
Queen Elizabeth found herself in a bit of a pickle when she heard about the tainted cucumbers. Everyone, who is everyone, knows that the Garden Parties held at the Palace have tiny triangular cucumber sandwiches, crusts removed, as the 'hub' of...
In response to the current E-Coli tainting of fresh vegetables across Europe, American Snap Pea producers with bumper crops are offering to ship much of their freshly picked surplus to Europe. "They're great sources of vitamins A and C, with a tou...
GENEZA, SWITZ. - The World Health Organisation (WHO) have declared the E.Coli strain found in cucumbers to be 'some new crazy shit'. Already, tabloid papers have reported deaths in European countries to have reached the millions that they foresaw,...
As a result of the recent deaths caused by tainted cucumbers, Health Organizations world-wide are encouraging people to switch to eating courgettes. This, sometimes ignored vegetable, is a great substitute in any recipe calling for cucumbers. C...
The issue of colicumbers and whether they contained Spanish, German or Dutch diseases has been put on the compost heap where it is hotting up. With lettuces and tomatoes joining in the great FEAR factor eating any vegetables now has become more ri...
This reporter has only just heard why cucumbers are in the news AGAIN. My husband told me when I told him cucumber stories were running rife on the Spoof. I live in a farming area and just ate some fresh slices of locally grown cucumber today. Our cucumbers appear to be fine so I would advise those who love the cucumber, to import them from Ontario. Sad that people have died from tainted cuc...
Dear Sir, everywhere I look of late, in your magazine, I see stories about the cucumber. Why is this? I am writing to register my disapprehension of these mostly sordid tales of the humble cucumber. Remember: cucumbers are not the only fruit, as I think Shakespeare said in one of his sonnets, and Annie Lennox later quoted in her big hit after she left the Heuristics and took up the market ga...
A Spanish cucumber suspected of being involved in the deaths of 14 people in Germany and another in Sweden, has been arrested as it tried to enter the UK at Dover, Immigration officials have said. The cucumber, green, had stowed itself in a crate...
After the recent spate, in Germany, of 'deaths by cucumber', scientists are now claiming that the human race is in extreme danger of being replaced as the dominant species upon the planet by the Killer Cucumbers. The aforementioned killer vegetabl...
World Health Organization teams quickly deployed out to farms and packaging plants to determine the source of the tainted tubers, and have reported a successful intervention in the inspection, cleaning and packaging methods of at least two major fres...
Local man, Martin Shuttlecock, today revealed that his long suffering wife has been feeding him exclusively on a diet of cucumber sandwiches, since it was revealed that some cucumbers could be laced with lethal quantities of the botulinus - or botuli...
With only one pool reporter assigned to handle emerging news over the weekend, that man, who can not be named, found nothing of Pulitzer Prize note was worthy of reporting on, unless of course like the New York Times one could make something up.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - "Going Green" can have its consequences in a city like San Francisco, especially when writers discover innovative new ways to use other writers' material. The call for more fertile gardening soil has spread like wildfire throu...
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