Five Jokes: 8-20-2024
Five Jokes: 8-20-2024
The Obama's At The DNC, A Rare Mastodon Skull And Serpent Sighting, Disney Reverses The "Fine Print" Angle, Hurricane Debbie's Cocaine Haul, And Federal Judges In Mexico On Strike
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Michelle Obama is set to speak on the second day of the Democratic National Convention — and spectators wonder if she’ll be updating her phrase from “when they go low, we go high” to “when they go low, we pour loose change into a sock.”
Archeologists in Iowa believe they have unearthed an ancient mastodon skull dating back to when the first humans were roaming the Earth and an "incredibly rare" dead sea serpent whose appearance is an omen of impending disaster has surfaced in Southern California. Crazy how time flies. We’ve gone from “nature is healing” during the pandemic slowdown to “did you not get the memo?”
Disney has given up on trying to use the Disney Plus fine print to settle a wrongful death lawsuit — citing the clause that hands over the rights to each users’ soul for 20,000 years as a “baked in win-win.”
Hurricane Debby washed ashore $1 million worth of cocaine onto Florida beaches — and Martin Scorsese has secured the rights to make a four hour movie about the hurricane’s upbringing in the mean oceans of Atlantis.
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Federal judges across Mexico voted to strike in opposition to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s push for judges to be elected rather than appointed. Their picket line slogan is “I don’t know these people…”
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