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Funny story: Illinois To Drop The Letter "S" Since It Is Not Pronounced

Illinois To Drop The Letter "S" Since It Is Not Pronounced

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois - (Satire News) - The state senate of Illinois has just voted by a vote of 53 to 47 to change the spelling of the state's name. Sen. Clydell M. Papsin, of Peoria first proposed the idea back in 2019. It sat on the senate back…

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Funny story: Missouri Bans the Anagram Letters LMAO

Missouri Bans the Anagram Letters LMAO

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri – (Satire News) – After receiving a petition with over 2.3 million names, the Missouri state senate has voted to prohibit the use of the anagram letters LMAO. The vote against the “Laughing My Ass Off” anagram was a close…

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Funny story: Confusion Over Word 'Pallets'

Confusion Over Word 'Pallets'

There was a storm in a teacup on an online satirical news website earlier this month, over the spelling of three similarly-sounding words landed one writer in a huge pickle, and an editor having to explain things to him in a schoolteacherly way. T…

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Funny story: Man Spent Afternoon Listening To Linton Kwesi Johnson

Man Spent Afternoon Listening To Linton Kwesi Johnson

A man who read of a possible change in the way words in the English language are spelt, has told of how he dreamt up another similar scheme after spending yesterday afternoon listening to the Jamaican reggae poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson. A story on…

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Funny story: Noddy Holder Spelling System Will Help People To Read

Noddy Holder Spelling System Will Help People To Read

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…

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Funny story: Writing Website Didn't Explain Writing Very Well

Writing Website Didn't Explain Writing Very Well

An educational website that claimed it had an easy way for its readers to remember how to spell certain words has failed in its mission, after one man spotted a glaring error in its logic. Moys Kenwood, 57, wanted to check the spelling of the word…

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Funny story: Man for the Life of Him Can't Spell Rythym

Man for the Life of Him Can't Spell Rythym

A local man from Dookiesville Township has come clean on a lifelong problem that has plagued him his entire life from birth to how old he is now, or, in other words as long as he has lived, which many people refer to as lifelong. He can't spell th...

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Funny story: Florida Man Arrested for Making Bombs that don't Explode

Florida Man Arrested for Making Bombs that don't Explode

56-year old Cesar Sayoc Jr. was arrested by federal officials today for failing to make bombs that can explode on Democrats, and for misspelling the name of an elected official. If convicted, Sayoc faces up to three years imprisonment for the non-ex...

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Funny story: Man Confused By Spellings

Man Confused By Spellings

A man in the Cambodian second-city of Battambang has reported that he became confused over the weekend , when he started thinking about the word 'millennium'. Moys Kenwood, 54, claims he has always had trouble with this word and other words which...

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Funny story: Fernetic speling intradoosed to Orstralya

Fernetic speling intradoosed to Orstralya

Yestadee, th Orstralyan Govmint changed al speling over to a simplifide form of fernetic speling. "This moov" sed th Pri Minster, Mr Malcum Turnbul, "wil put Orstralya in th forfront ov wirld progres in edicashun. No moor wil we b slaves too an outda...

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Funny story: Sex Ordinary School in Trouble

Sex Ordinary School in Trouble

A pupil at Granchester Comprehensive has caused trouble for the school with a spelling mistake. He sent an tweet to a friend that he was going to a 'sex ordinary school' when he meant secondary school. This slip resulted in the media descending...

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Funny story: YouTube users cannot spell for shit, report finds

YouTube users cannot spell for shit, report finds

YouTube users are unable to string even the simplest of sentences together, it has emerged. A new study by everyone who has ever used the internet has found that 96% of people who post comments on YouTube are unable to spell their own name, tell...

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Funny story: Spelling Bee Winner prepares for life of ridicule

Spelling Bee Winner prepares for life of ridicule

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.- Snigdha Nandipati a 14-year-old of San Diego won the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night when she correctly spelled the word "guetapens," which means a trap or ambush. Although Nandipati took home a $35,000...

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Funny story: Dawkins to be new host of Countdown!

Dawkins to be new host of Countdown!

Atheist fundamentalist and evolution crackpot Richard Dawkins is adding spellchecking to his resume. Dawkins has released a video of himself hilariously mocking Ray Comfort. Comfort, who Dawkins refers to as 'the banana man', is an evangelist who...

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Funny story: The Discovery Institute want 'Science' removed from the dictionary

The Discovery Institute want 'Science' removed from the dictionary

The Discovery Institute, having failed to have Intelligent (*cough* Creationism *cough*) Design taught in schools, has instead requested that the word 'science' is removed from every English dictionary. "It is an affront," said Bill Dembski, the n...

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Funny story: Dear Fantasie's, Keyport, NJ:

Dear Fantasie's, Keyport, NJ:

Dear Fantasie's, Keyport, NJ: I write to you about the sign in front of your building. It is, in a word, disgusting. As the only strip club in the Borough of Keyport, I assume you have been cleared by the Borough's buildings department, so you must not be breaking any law, per-se, but that hideous, revolting sign, which looms high above your presence on Route 36, the busiest street in our B...

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Funny story: Rooney Excels In Spelling Test

Rooney Excels In Spelling Test

These days we are always hearing about how all our footballers are earning far too much money and are such terrible role models for children everywhere. So it's always nice when we hear a good news story. This week, Manchester United Superstar W...

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