You Can’t Satirize This Shit, #6

“A Francisco Prostitute Says He Killed Victim Who Realized He Is Transgender and Wanted Refund”

Leion Butler, 20, killed Hamza Walupupu, 32, after Walupupu had discovered Butler was transgender and wanted a refund following Mr. Butler’s oral ministrations..

Butler’s mother helped clean Walupupu’s vehicle and get rid of his belongings

St. Theneva, Patron Saint of Breast Reductions

Saint Theneva of Glasgow was a British princess who enjoyed the horizontal sports from an early age. Her fondness for frolic was something of an embarrassment to her father, Lord Seefeth, who was planning to invade England and sought the favor of god in that enterprise.

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You Can’t Satirize This Shit, #5

“Woman shot in butt after sliding into MRI machine with loaded firearm”

An unidentified Wisconsin woman was left with an extra pair of holes in her butt after she took a loaded firearm into an MRI machine during a doctor’s visit last June, according to Food and Drug Administration records.

National Free Gluten Day

Celiac disease affects 1 percent of normal Americans. When people with this inherited autoimmune disorder of the small intestine eat bread, pasta, muffins, or other foods containing gluten, their immune systems open up giant-economy-size cans of whup-ass on their persons. It isn’t pretty. It could be fatal. That’s why people with celiac follow diets completely free of gluten, a protein found in most grains.

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National Amuse-bouche Day

There are only two kinds of people in the world: those who go to restaurants that offer amuse-bouche and those who do not. For the sake of the uninitiated, an amuse-bouche (UH-mooz-boosh) is a single, bite-sized hors d’œuvre sent to your table compliments of the chef.

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The Tongue Twister that Sealed Jesus’ Fate

When Jesus was brought before Pilate for trial, the latter offered to free Jesus if he could say “Arkei moi tyrannē, mēden eti mallon atimon” three times rapidly.

Jesus failed, changing the tongue twister’s meaning from “Enough for me, tyrant, nothing more dishonorable” to “Piss off, you camel-humping, maggot-ridden tyrant.”

National Write Your Own Obituary Day

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” –Hector Berlioz

We are constantly told by lawyers, estate planners, the AARP,  and other mountebanks  that dying without a will is a thoughtless act of passive-aggressiveness toward our “loved” ones.

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You Can’t Satirize This Shit, #4

“Taylor Swift Courses Will Be Offered at Harvard, UC Berkeley, University of Florida”

Roll over Will Shakespeare and tell John Milton the news. Seems like Taylor Swift “establishes complicated, changing relationships … to the idea of Americanness and to the idea of white Americanness,” blathered one female “diehard Swiftie” Harvard educator.

Santa Takes Stand Against AI-generated Letters

After receiving millions of letters that were obviously not written by youngsters (who generally don’t use terms like “plausible deniability”) Santa Claus declared he won’t read AI-generated correspondence.

Remember: He sees you when you paste an AI-generated stamp on your letter or when it begins “To whom it may concern.”