Five Jokes: 11-21-2024

The First Millennial Saint, A 6 Million Dollar Banana, Trump's Sexual Misconduct Cabinet, LeBron James' Social Media Cleanse, and The Potential Discovery Of A Long Lost Chopin Piece

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• Pope Francis announced that a late web designer will be named as the first millennial saint — urging followers to “Drop a prayer and click that tithe button.”

• A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. Nothing, my friends, explains the 2024 election more than this.

  

• Several Trump cabinet picks are mired in sexual misconduct allegations - causing those who aren’t to worry they’re on the chopping block.

• Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James is taking a break from social media. But if you look closely during practice, there’s clearly a cell phone duct-taped to his basketball.

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• A previously unknown work of music penned by the European master Frederic Chopin appears to have been found at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan. There is some debate over its authenticity, however, stemming from the pieces title: WAP.

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