News Roundup

…which is probably the best word to describe this first news item:


...”how am I going to replace half my staffers now?”


...I would have thought the CIA would be too busy planning to do that back here after November.


...keyword:  Irish.

From the Hearts Of Stone Department:


...okay, quit that unseemly giggling.


...”that’s a strange noise.”

In news from The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©:


...like everywhere else.


...”wait, you mean we can no longer just get rid of our problem by shipping them over to you?”


From the Department of Education:


...but but but that’s just Show & Tell in Sex Ed.  Also, keyword:  Florida.

And in Medical News:


...principal among them:  pics of Lizzo, Hillary Clinton or Gemma Collins.


...you mean that salad tongs aren’t approved?


...when demand exceeds supply.


...all of which can be summed up with:

From the trenches of the Sex Wars:


...repeat after me:  “Sex, sandwiches and silence.”  And if we can have only one, then:  silence.

Now for unbridled but unlinked 

hate to say it, Tarty, but yer just not that important, compared to Hillary Clinton.


...well, we haven’t seen Phil’s little girl for a while, so why not?

And that’s all the news fit to (un-)cover.

Lookalike Names

This one made me chuckle:

Snickers launched in the UK in 1967, but before consumers could get their hands on it, it went through a change of name — because Snickers was deemed too close to another, saucier, word.

“Knickers”, I assume.  Not that I think that that name is “saucy”, or anything like it.  “Knockers”, maybe?

On the bright side, imagine the fuss today if someone tried to launch a snack bar called “Sniggers”… and it was made of dark chocolate.  I imagine that Sniggers  having been rejected, one could try “Darkies”, then?

From the archives:

I should probably stop now;  but that doesn’t mean that you should.  Carry on, in Comments, by all means.

Monday Funnies

Look on the bright side:  your Monday might be sucking today:

…but at least you got to Monday.  Unlike these assholes:

 

Speaking of which, I bet Rep. Rashida Tlaib has a few sudden vacancies among her staff.

 

Okay, that’s enough of that fun stuff.  Back to our normal Monday fare:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And just for the hell of it:

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