Five Jokes: 6-25-2024
Missing MTV News Pieces, China's Dark Side Of The Moon Samples, Biden And Trump Prep For First Debate In Atlanta, Startups Want To Mess With The Ocean, and The Ten Commandments In Louisiana Schools
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More than two decades’ worth of content published on MTVNews .com is no longer available. Video is now wanted for the murders of the radio star and the music journalist.
China has just returned the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon. Now they must be put to the ultimate test — free-styling for Sway:
President Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election on Thursday night in Atlanta. And here some of y’all thought Freaknik was the wildest thing in the city.
Oceans help cool down the world and startups are betting they can tweak the chemistry of seas to make them do even more. Meaning, at this very moment, Poseidon — the god of the sea and waters — is in an open office asking, “So… what does permalance mean exactly?”
Finally…
A group of Louisiana parents filed a federal lawsuit to block a new state law that requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. They hope to settle on three condensed commandments instead of ten — requiring posters of the Julia Roberts movie, Eat, Pray, Love in every classroom.
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