Peter Hook Did Not Sing On 'Doubts Even Here'

Funny story: Peter Hook Did Not Sing On 'Doubts Even Here'

A man in Hull has said he doesn't believe the claim that bassist Peter Hook sang the vocals on the track, Doubts even here' on the 1981 New Order debut album, 'Movement'. In other words, he has doubts about 'Doubts even here'. New Order rose fr...

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Creation of a New Extreme Sport No Holds Barred Golf

Funny story: Creation of a New Extreme Sport No Holds Barred Golf

Even though there is a decent following in golf, most people around the world still think that it's a boring and irritating game. Watching long static camera shots on TV of people taking forever to tee-off, and all of that polite clapping afterwards...

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Opinion: Solving the immigration crisis

How to solve Immigration (and, by definition, all our other problems since they, too, stem from filthy foreigners). To say we have an immigration problem is an understatement. Not since Alexander wept because he had no worlds left to conquer, ha...

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WikiLeaks Gets Plugged: The 10 Reasons Why

Funny story: WikiLeaks Gets Plugged: The 10 Reasons Why

April 12, 2019 London, United Kingdom In an exclusive interview with award-winning reporter, Amiko Aventurista, the Ecuadorian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Senior Maximo Frutuoso De La Cruz Rodriquez, explained his 10 reasons why Julian Assa...

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Filthy Sayings and Antics of The Taco Bell Dog

Funny story: Filthy Sayings and Antics of The Taco Bell Dog

The Spoof is dedicated to maintaining the memory of the greatest pop culture moments in Western Civilization. In this week’s Pop Culture Flashback, we’d like to look back at one of advertising’s most popular mascots, the Taco Bell chihuahua. From 199...

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The Man Who Had Talons For Toenails

Funny story: The Man Who Had Talons For Toenails

A man who was visited at his home by a Social Security Fraud Inspector had a rather unusual physical characteristic. William Waghorn, about 75, of Fountain Road in Hull, received the visitor and his 'associate' when there was a rap on his front do...

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Republicans, Quit Picking On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Funny story: Republicans, Quit Picking On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Republicans, quit picking on Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It’s just another failed attempt to pick on women smarter and sharper than you, in an effort to silence the little lady who belongs back in the kitchen whipping up your grits, clean...

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Alex Jones to Head the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Funny story: Alex Jones to Head the Office of Science and Technology Policy

President Trump has appointed Alex Jones Director of The Office of Science and Technology Policy. Trump has pointed to Jones', "Fine and strongly-beautiful work, on informing the public about science matters." Jones has sounded the alarm o...

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Chattre: The New Way to Learn Foreign Languages

Fed up with those incessant Babbel commercials babbling away on how to learn a foreign language? Ever wonder what happened to Rosetta Stone? Or is it still around? Forget about Memrise and Duolingo! We've got a new, sure-fire language learning...

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The untold facts on the opioid epidemic and the opioid-reversal drug Narcan, you should know

Opioids are a series of medications referred to as analgesia’s developed and prescribed to treat moderate to severe pain and have recently become one of the top medications to be abused following a viscous wave of overdoses in America, an epidemic if...

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Oh, God! It's Not That Time Again Is It???????

Funny story: Oh, God! It's Not That Time Again Is It???????

Noooooooooooooooo! It can't be! It's inhumane! Its monstrous! It just can't be true! IT CAN'T BE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SEASON AGAIN!!!!!!! It seems like the last one just ended. I still haven't recovered from that one yet. The scars haven...

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Slim Everdingle Finds Black Cat In Dark Room

Funny story: Slim Everdingle Finds Black Cat In Dark Room

BILLINGSGATE POST: Everyone knew Slim Everdingle was special. How special was he? Even his birth was different than most. Coming out of the womb ready for work, baby-boy Slim was wearing a traditional white tee-shirt and Dickies Short Sleeve Mechan...

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Pay To Play Into College And The White House

Funny story: Pay To Play Into College And The White House

Stop picking on Hollywood mothers with big smiles for trying to buy their kid into elite colleges. Indeed, it's painful enough for the mother to admit their kid is hopelessly slow. Why didn't they hire tutors to bridge the gap during high school?...

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Steampunks Will Soon Be Replaced by Internal-Combustion Punks

What grew as an offshoot of the cyberpunk community, but with an aesthetic eye more backwards-looking rather than forwards-looking, the steampunks quickly took root and flourished on the open parking-lots of both comic and videogame conventions. Heav...

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Latest AI Voice Recognition Software Released ( err we think...)

The following was found stapled to the back of a pizza box after a takeaway order for large vindaloo and chips went tragically wrong. Being written in crayon and covered in curry sauce we think it could be from one of our technology correspondent...

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I am not that interesting, really, says man

Funny story: I am not that interesting, really, says man

Gary Johnson, 48, and the fictional subject of a few stories written by an equally fictional writer has insisted, that he really is not that interesting. 'The thing is,' said the fictional buffoon, 'I am completely fictional, but it does not mean...

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