Five Jokes: 8-12-2024

Kamala Harris’ Sorority PAC, U.S. Colleges Cutting Majors, Toy Story 5, Trump Campaign Hack, and Musk vs Zuckerberg

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Anyway, here are Five Jokes!

Y’all hear about this?..

• Kamala Harris’ sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., has formed a political action committee — making the Alpha Kappa Alpha PAC the first tongue and tax twister.

• US colleges are cutting majors and slashing programs after years of putting it off — forcing students to major in their minors, staff to cut slash hours, and one tenacious quantum physics professor to take over the theater department and seamlessly inject a lesson on string theory into this year’s production of Blue Stockings.

• Woody and Buzz will be back for Disney Pixar‘s “Toy Story 5.” And based on this photo, they’ll be facing off against their biggest foe: An Incognito Mode Google Image Search For The Word “Butts.”

  

• Donald Trump said his campaign was hacked by Iran but it’s unclear what, if anything, the hackers were able to achieve — outside of access to a shocking number of lunch orders entirely comprised of McNuggets.

Finally…

• Elon Musk keeps coming up on the losing end of his battle with Mark Zuckerberg. Turns out, as the old saying goes… the poke button is mightier than the rocket.

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