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How the joke ‘conspiracy’ Birds Aren’t Real became a real conspiracy about a fake conspiracy. 14 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Backstory: Birds Aren’t RealPeter McIndoe (born 1997/1998) created the satirical conspiracy “on a whim” in Memphis, Tennessee, in January 2017. In 2017, he posted on Facebook: “I made a satirical…
No one listens anymore. I said no one listens anymore. To anything. Hell, you won’t even bother to read this tale of woe about no one listening anymore. Photo: The Fan / James Porteous 18 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Recently, the wee fan in the washroom of my small, one-room…
Bob Innes He set the (clearly) gag-website up in 2005 to test website security, and has received around 650 to 700 contact requests. Screenshots from rentahitman.com 26 November 2021 | Staff | Euronews A woman in the US has been convicted for using rentahitman.com to try and have her former husband killed. Billing itself as a “point…
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17 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media ‘He Said, She Said’ – An engaging and humorous collection of Studs Terkel-style tales of faith, love, life, and sometimes, even redemption. Sample From ‘He Said, She Said’ Short Fiction (Bitter) Sweet Revenge https://linktr.ee/jamesporteous https://bit.ly/3zcbPsi
Photo: Cropped – David Dee Delgado for The New York Times (original below) | With additional photos, quotes and video The beloved author wrote many witty epitaphs but never suggested where her remains should end up. Her fans helped complete her ashes’ odyssey. 26 August 2021 | Robert Simonson | New York Times Dorothy Parker…
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22 August 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media There’ll be peace without end Ev’ry neighbor a friend With ev’ry man a King (Castro Carazo / Huey P. Long) By the time former Louisiana Governor and Senator Huey P. Long wrote the words ‘peace without end,’ he was well on his way to establishing a…
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Photo: James Porteous 13 August 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Call it ‘gallows humour.’ Or simply bad taste. But let’s not pretend that soldiers don’t need down time. Or that terrorists don’t need rules -and money- to survive. JP The Fake Empire – James Porteous The Good Lord is so fed up with…
Photo: FILE – Actor/comedian Jackie Mason stands beside a bus displaying a sign advertising his TV show, 1992. Mason, a rabbi-turned-jokester whose feisty brand of standup comedy got laughs from nightclubs in the Catskills to West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages.(AP Photo/File) He kept the borscht belt style of comedy alive long after the…
Photo: NASA will send three inanimate occupants, like this one, to the moon on Artemis I to help measure radiation and vibration. Photo courtesy of NASA 24 June 2021 | Paul Brinkmann | UPI ORLANDO, Fla., June 24 (UPI) — NASA’s upcoming Artemis I mission to the moon, planned for later this year, won’t have a…
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Headline: ‘Galápagos tortoise found alive revealed as species thought extinct 100 years ago’ Oh dear. Robots can be so troublesome #news360 #DominicCummings #truthfiction
Toby Jones: “We had the second series of Don’t Forget The Driver written, it was all there. And Covid ate it.” 14 May 2021 | Jay Richardson | British Comedy Guide Toby Jones‘s comedy Don’t Forget The Driver has been cancelled. BBC Two had ordered a second series of the comedy drama, which starred Jones as a Bognor…
The director’s “other production commitments” have superseded ‘An Afternoon with SCTV’ 13 May 2021 | Calum Slingerland | Exclaim Following reports that Martin Scorsese‘s long-awaited SCTV documentary for Netflix had been shelved, it has now been confirmed that An Afternoon with SCTV is not off the table entirely, but just a little lower on the director’s slate of productions. Earlier this week, longtime…
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