Five Jokes: 4-18-2024
Five Jokes: 4-18-2024
The Sons Of Lennon/McCartney Collab, Tesla's Incorrect Severance Packages, Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants Space Lasers, Tarantino's 10th Film, and High Stress Wordle
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A new Lennon-McCartney collab has dropped — but this time it's by the Beatles' sons. The song is so good that execs are pressuring them to launch a band with the children of all four Beatles called The Post-Existing IPs.
Elon Musk reportedly apologized for 'incorrectly low' Tesla severance packages. Turns out this is how he learned “severance package” doesn’t mean “Easter basket full of Tic Tacs.”
Georgia congressional representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for the deployment of "space laser technology" at the U.S.-Mexico border. More proof that her true goal is to depart congress for a cushy job as Georgia’s Death Star representative.
Gage Skidmore photo remixed with Star Wars (1977) Quentin Tarantino is no longer making ‘The Movie Critic’ as his 10th and final film — upon realizing how difficult it is for cinema critics to publish the N-word these days.
Finally…
Therapists told The Daily Beast that patients have confessed to The New York Times Games app messing with their mood or mental health. But, if they think Wordle stressful, wait until they read the full on sentences in each article.
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