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Funny story: Waterstone's to lose the apostrophe

Waterstone's to lose the apostrophe

High street book retailer, Waterstone's, have announced that they will be dropping the apostrophe from their name. "In the internet age," said Walter Stone (no relation), PR spokeswoman for the company, "an apostrophe causes confusion and is quite...

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Funny story: Swine 'flu catches apostrophe flu

Swine 'flu catches apostrophe flu

In a complication to the widespread lack of panic or even interest in Britain over the media obsession with swine 'flu, a new outbreak hit the country today, one of apostrophe flu. Said Dr' Mengele O'Goebbels from his government-funded laboratory-...

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Funny story: Birmingham Hates! The Apostrophe

Birmingham Hates! The Apostrophe

The ever staid and formal folk of John Bulls Island have never been big fans of the apostrophe. Similes, metaphors even synedoche and metanome have been among the favorite figures of speech of Britishers, but the apostrophe was simply never their cup...

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Funny story: Chief of Police warns public about rogue apostrophes

Chief of Police warns public about rogue apostrophes

There's a new danger to the public. It's on the increase and The United Nations have given the green light to a new World Police Service. What is this new danger to the general public? Firearms? Narcotic's? (fuck right off) Or even Religious Cults...

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Funny story: Arkansas's legislature addresses punctuation

Arkansas's legislature addresses punctuation

LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas Rep. Steve Harrelson has introduced a resolution to declare that the official way to form the possessive of the state is "Arkansas's." The dispute arises because different stylebooks have different usages for f...

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