Five Jokes: 5-27-2025
Trump/Kremlin Beef, The Phone Of The Future, King Charles III In Canada, Closet Rentals, and Elon Musk's Political Pivot
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The Kremlin called Trump 'emotional' after the U.S. president said that Putin is 'crazy.' With language like that, it’s clearly up to Andy Cohen to moderate a Bravo sponsored roundtable that halts World War III.
Carl Pei, CEO of the British startup Nothing, thinks the phone of the future will only have one app — and it turns out we all have this app installed for free. It’s called TheBrain. Nothing has discovered that it’s located between our ears, but for the low cost of $15.99 a month, the Nothing company can make sure its patented NothingBucks are installed.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla are in Canada for a visit seen as bolstering the country's sovereignty amid threats by President Trump — and, hopefully, warning Americans that if we end up with a King it’s a slippery slope toward having one with mysterious “sausage fingers.”
Women are renting out their closets on an app called Pickle, with some “lenders” making thousands of dollars a month. The app actually began as a space for men loan closet items, but quickly shifted as the bulk of posts were of pickle-shaped appendages. Which, honestly, wouldn’t have a problem if they were at least wearing tiny shirts.
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As Elon Musk pulls away from his political work, he’s turning his attention back to his rocket company — in what psychologists call the first documentary case of a mid-Earth crisis.
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