Five Jokes: 6-10-2025
Google vs Foxes, Vaccine Policy Layoffs, Snoop Dogg's Biopic, A Deleted Army Video, and A.I. Scammers vs Financial Aid
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Google is battling a ‘fox infestation’ on the roof of its pricy London office. Or as Googles AI Overview puts it: Roof Foxes are an American indie folk band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 2006. But enough about foxes, consider downloading Chrome.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is removing all 17 members of a key advisory committee that helps craft vaccine policy and recommendations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vacancies are to be promptly filled by 17 rare taxidermied animals illegally hunted by Mr. Kennedy in 2014.
It was reportedly a close call Daviss and a very carefully lit Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys.
A now-deleted Army video of tanks being loaded onto a train to Washington, D.C., to appear in the massive June 14 military parade for the Army's 250th anniversary showed a graffitied message spray-painted on the side of the train car reading "Hang Fauci & Bill Gates." The White House ordered the video be taken down stating, “It turns out, many members of our cabinet like Xbox.”
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Scammers are using AI to enroll fake students in online classes, then steal college financial aid. Colleges are torn. On one hand they demand answers, and on the other — they should probably use those answers to hand an honorary degree to the mastermind behind each scam.
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