Five Jokes: 5-22-2024
Employers Think Twice About College Grads, The Rising Age Of MTV Viewers, Details About Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Running Mate, Biden's Summer Fuel Strategy, and U.S. Marijuana Habits
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Companies are planning to hire fewer new graduates and are rethinking their needs for entry-level talent. Their logic of course being, “Well… robots never report me to HR.”
51 is the median age of MTV viewers. Anyone else smell a merger?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 38-year-old running mate Nicole Shanahan has called herself a “Silicon Valley princess” and led a turbulent life involving drug use and affairs. Pushing that and his brainworms aside, this might be the smartest decision Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ever made. With the two major candidate being in their 70s and 80s… there’s just… something refreshing about knowing a person young enough to have built a Geo-cities website could just be a heartbeat away…
The Biden administration plans to keep fuel prices lower this summer by selling one million barrels of gasoline from a reserve in New England. See! And people say the students protesting at schools aren’t solving anything.
Finally…
A new study shows that daily marijuana use outpaces daily drinking in the U.S. You must of course factor in the percentage who are so high, they purchased a pack of Bud Light thinking, “They sell canned weed now?”
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