Five Jokes: 6-11-2024
Five Jokes: 6-11-2024
Nick Cannon's Epic Father's Day, iPads Embrace The Calculator, Middle Finger On The 'Inside Out 2' Red Carpet, Bill Gates' Power Plant, and Samuel Alito's Never Ending Curb Your Enthusiasm Episode
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Nick Cannon wants to give all 11 of his kids the 'opportunity to connect' with him on Father's Day — which explains this new game I’ve been seeing on shelved lately.
Apple is finally releasing an iPad with a built in calculator app — figuring, if people haven’t calculate that these things are just giant phones by now, an actual calculator won’t help them either.
Red Hot Chili Peppers band member, Flea, gave the finger on the Inside Out 2 premiere red carpet. But if you look closely, you can see that he’s actually scanning notes that he scribbled to himself on the inside of both fingers that say, “smile more.”
In Wyoming, Bill Gates is backing the construction of the first of a new generation of nuclear power plants. In response to queries on what makes the new plant so great, Gates steepled his fingers and whispered, “It’s not great… It’s eeexcelent.”
Finally…
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a woman posing as a Catholic conservative last week that compromise in America between the left and right might be impossible and then agreed with the view that the nation should return to a place of godliness. He followed this up by asking, “Now, remind me… why are you dressed exactly like the pope?”
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