Five Jokes: 5-23-2025
Pennies, Harvard, DOGE, Memorial Day Travel, and Joseph Stalin
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In a cost-cutting move, the Treasury Department will soon stop minting new pennies. Instead, the remaining materials used to make pennies will be broken into microscopic pieces and tossed into the air, forming a cloud that will later evenly disperses the funds as crypto-drops.
The Trump administration has halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students. However, the White House is thrilled to announce that it is enhancing Harvard’s ability to be far too expensive for most American’s to afford.
DOGE used a Facebook AI model to review emails from federal workers. But it doesn’t seem like it helped any. Placing emails into the content categories of 'Sweet', 'Tasty', 'Divine', and 'Delicious’ has left them even more confused.
A record number of Americans are expected to travel over Memorial Day weekend at an increase of 1.4 million from last year. Or, as the amorous collective consciousness of the COVID-19 virus describes it: Potluck Dinner.
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A replica of a Soviet-era statue of Josef Stalin has been unveiled in a Moscow metro station as part of an attempt by the Kremlin to reappraise the dictator’s legacy. In a similar move, Donald Trump aims to erect statue of Joseph McCarthy at a D.C. McDonald’s to see if anyone in the playpen notices.
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Those are some excellent jokes! I’ll go with Pennys, but only because I HAVE to chose. And we saw Sinners a few days ago and LOVED it!
Join the club! Canada got rid of its penny a very long time ago, and the U.S. is finally waking up to the fact that they're more expensive to make than they are really worth.