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…
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…
A man who is an enthusiastic reader of books, but who struggles with modern-day technological advancements, says he is sick and tired of being told to purchase a Kindle, and will respond to the next person who advises him thus by smashing their teeth…
There was good news for those who experience difficulty in learning to read this week, when it was announced that an entirely new system of spelling the English language is to be introduced, developed by the ex-Slade frontman, Noddy Holder. Holder…
Stan Bridgewater, a 47-year-old eternal bachelor, and man about town, has, for the fourth attempt, finished reading James Joyce's Ulysses. With extra time during lockdown, and feeling that his years of virility were slipping away, he told us: 'It…
Calvin Holmes of Nashville, Tennessee, came to an unfortunate conclusion when he reached the end of the spy novel he'd been reading and realized he'd never actually lived. "I've never been to Paris and bonded viscerally with a beautiful, voluptuou...
A woman who read the Oxford English Dictionary all the way through, has said she wasn't impressed, and wouldn't be recommending it to others. Wendy O'Kooms, 23, a student from Dublin, is an avid reader, and belongs to a Literary Circle which meets...
In an era of online news reporting and misinformation, a new study by the Center for Informational Integrity revealed that a disturbing 98 percent of Americans believe whatever they read, but fortunately they don't read very much. "It''s good news...
The controversy over Trump refusing intelligence briefings has been resolved today. The President-elect made a deal with the Intelligence Agency to receive his daily intelligence briefings in audio format. Trump stated he had concerns that "it wo...
You can look it up. It may seem harsh, but calling your father-in-law a fool makes you liable to the fires of hell. After all, he may have been conned by the lies and empty promises, duped by a charismatic scam artist, or confused by the self-contradictory rhetoric. He may have a disability that diminishes his powers of reason and understanding. Let's have a little empathy here, folks. But. Now...
"Yippee!" said one bookseller when she heard the news. She continued,"This is our big chance to dump our inventory of kids' books." Giving a thumbs-up sign to an assistant, she said, "Get all the junk onto the selling floor and prepare to sell, sel...
More and more people are beginning to read stuff and then re-read it some time later. Since you've started reading this, even more people have started to read repetitively. Even now, some people will be re-reading the above sentence to make sure...
Despite having what some have called an unappealing headline, you have just opened this article and started reading it. "I'm really not sure why I'm reading this article," you said. "So far it doesn't really seem to be about anything. I'm beginning to wonder why it was even written." Though the thought has crossed your mind to stop reading the article, you said that a combination o...
Right Honourable David Cameron MP (Conservative) Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. Recommended Book: The Importance of Being Eton By Nick Fraser. Right Honourable Nick Clegg MP (Liberal Democrat) Deputy Prime Minister, Lord President of the Council. (With special responsibility for political and constitutional reform) Recommended Book: Why V...
When Amazon announced this week that it would be selling a new Kindle model "Kindle with Special Offers," one with advertisements, for $114 ($25 cheaper than the standard Kindle), the news was greeted enthusiastically by some. But not by all. Th...
A scheme at a Primary school in Kent is working wonders. Pupils who are unwilling to read aloud are introduced to dogs who are happy to listen to the children reading to them. Educationalists say that the dogs do not judge whether the child is rea...
The Coalition Government has announced strange new plans for reading tests for 6 year olds. A spokesperson for the Department of Education confirmed that children in England would be the subject of "an innovative approach to the testing of one's r...
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