The hot news from the street today focuses almost exclusively on satirical website TheSpoof.com's drive to publish 100k news items in time for its tenth anniversary in 2011.
In Texas, word on the street in San Antonio suggests that a prominent local Spoofer has barricaded himself in his den and vowed not to emerge until he has knocked out at least five hundred top quality stories. Crowds are reported to have gathered outside the residence in question to shout encouragement.
In neighbouring New Mexico, word on the street has it that a local legend in Spoofdom is split between cranking out stories and running a January writers competition. Sales of jalapenos, birds eyes, and scotch bonnet chillies have rocketed and the local Tabasco sauce depot is working flat out to keep up with demand.
Word on the street up in SC suggests that a comfort dog, curiously named after a bear, is seriously pissed off because his owner has locked himself away with his keyboard and refused to come out. The dog says he'll stay put for the moment, but unless things improve dramatically sometime soon, he's going to have to review his options.
Business as usual in Florida, apart from the Tripod cancelling a couple of hunting trips to knock out more outlandish tales of the physically challenged.
On the other side of the world, in Thailand, a delegation of Buddhist monks and kick-boxers presented themselves at the door of a revered expat Spoofer to offer prayers in support of a golden era of new Spoofery.
The word on the street in the alleyways and estates of the UK suggested that UK based Spoofers were hard at it, going even harder at it than usual in the quest for the holy grail of 100k stories by 2011.
At Heathrow airport, a renowned snow grumbler departed for home in West 'By God' Virginia to write more Spoofs after successfully grumbling away much of the UK's snow.
In summary, there is only one word on the street today. And that word is:
The Spoof
Or is that two words?
More from the street when we get it.
