Ballad of King Frumtingle

Ballad of King Frumtingle

The land of Gadzookshagen was fair and fertileRuled by King Frumtingle, so noble and wiseIts people feasted on the local skrunt turtleIts meat was rich but went straight to their thighs All was well until a huge horde on horsebackPillaged and plundered and burned all...

EPA Declares California Celebrities an Endangered Species

EPA Declares California Celebrities an Endangered Species

LOS ANGELES - "Now that much of their already small habitat has been destroyed by wildfires, we are stepping in to protect this unique, majestic American species", said EPA spokeswoman Joanna Gambolputty. "For far too long, we neglected the conservation of this...

The world's foremost authority on the science of stupidity, Professor Emeritus at Derpskatonic University, Editor of the Journal of Pure and Theoretical Derp, Chancellor of the Royal Derp Society, and Senior Fellow at The Dipshit Doodlebug Institute for Advanced Idiocy

Lady Gaga Returns to Her Home Planet

In a beet field on the outskirts of Freehold, Iowa, thousands of well-wishers have gathered to bid farewell to extraterrestrial singing sensation Lady Gaga, who will soon be boarding a starship bound for a system near the star Arcturus. Since arriving on Earth in...

Outlaw of the Jungle

In a distant land, there were never any people, and so the animals developed differently. The country, called the Animal Kingdom, was divided into two nations: the Carnivore Dictatorship and the Herbivore Republic. Each side chose leaders once a year. The carnivores...

Homeless, Senile Man Mistaken for Senator

WASHINGTON DC - A shabby, disheveled vagrant was escorted from a closed door-intelligence briefing at the Capitol today after a thorough examination, whereupon it was concluded that the stranger was not a senator. "I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. We've become...

Genie Tonic

The state fair had come once more to the dusty fairgrounds of a podunk town. Crowds of curious rubes and yokels from miles around came for the circus and other festivities. As exciting as seeing an elephant was for people, who in most cases were people who'd never...

Americans Unsure If CEO Murder Bad

NEW YORK - "I've never any seen anything quite like it, not even during the height of Laurel/Yanny controversy" said Joanna Gambolputty, a public opinion analyst at the Hogwash Institute for Humbug Research. "The very same people quick to condemn not just the use but...

I, Soldier – part 37

Once, Quint was sleepless. So I held him in my lap, and we watched TV together until the sign-off message came. The national anthem played, the Iwo Jima flag raising statue was shown, and Quint drifted off to sleep not long after. I did the same thing with Cathy a few...

I, Soldier – part 35

The accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant was a particularly depressing day for me. I became convinced that no new nuclear power plants would be built, and the existing ones would be shut down eventually. Something similar happened to warplanes for a...