Five Jokes: 11-4-2024

A Wingdings Hack, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Promoting Trump, A Groundbreaking Report On Royal Money Sources, 'Venom 3' Beats Tom Hanks In The Box Office, and New Starbucks Holiday Cups

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• A Florida man is accused of hacking Disney World menus and changing their font to Wingdings. The hack, of course, went unnoticed until a man in a Mandalorian outfit said, “Hey, that’s not Aurebesh — the writing system comprising 34 letters used to transcribe Galactic Basic Standard, the most spoken language in the Star Wars galaxy!!!!”

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Donald Trump would push to remove fluoride from drinking water. Finishing with, “But what he replaces it is up to the highest bidder.”

• In a groundbreaking report, leases and contracts in the names of King Charles and Prince William show they are making millions of pounds a year by charging the army, the navy, the NHS, the prison service and state schools to use their land, rivers and seashores. It gets worse… According to the navy, these royal landlords “never respond to our complaints about the leak.”

• ‘Venom 3’ enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office, while Tom Hanks’ latest film ‘Here’ struggles. Taking note of Venom’s success, the Tom Hanks film is getting re-released with an '“extended tongue edition”.

  

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• Starbucks unveiled its holiday cups with the theme 'Merrier Together’ — marking the company’s first holiday theme inspired by a pile of rejected Hillary 2016 slogans.

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