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Trivia, Humor & Satire
Humoring the Headlines: March 1, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Tea Party celebrated its fifth anniversary. It held its commemorative dinner at McDonald’s to demonstrate the Party’s commitment to fiscal conservatism and opposition to the nanny state. When no one offered to pay the bill, the attendees refused to recognize the authority of the police to force them
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireHumoring the Headlines: February 24, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―The Sochi Winter Olympics ended Sunday. Russia won the most medals, but lost a valuable ally. In a related story, Russia accused the new interim Ukrainian government of using “terrorist methods” to intimidate the Russian speaking minority in the Ukraine. Discerning something familiar in the Russian condemnation, fact checkers found the
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Humoring the Headlines: February 20, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―The demonstrations in the Ukraine have tarnished the image of a state content with being heavily dependent on Russia. Internal memos reveal that the Ukraine expected to easily quell the protests and initially dismissed it as a “pussy riot.” Embarrassed that much of Kiev’s Independence Square has been reduced to ash
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireHumoring the headlines: February 17, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―The warm weather at the Sochi Olympics has made the snow too slushy for many of the outside events. Facing the prospect of global warming affecting future winter games, the International Olympic Committee has voted to give the local organizers permission to switch skiing events into water skiing events if the
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Jewish-interest license plate: Pesach1
SAN DIEGO–Here’s a license plate that makes us think of matzoh, charoset, and hiding the afikomen. Melanie Rubin, SDJW’s license-plate super sleuth, found this one. As a child, no doubt, she was the first one to find the afikomen too!
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireJewish-interest license plate: ‘Suzela’
SAN DIEGO — Just in case anyone isn’t familiar with the argot, adding “ela” to almost any name is an affectionate way for a friend or an older relative to say “oooh, you’re such a cutey, I could pinch your cheeks, such a beautiful punim you have.” It is not recommended, however, when addressing Latin
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireHumoring the headlines: February 13, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO― The death of Shirley Temple Black reminded Americans of how much the country has changed since her years as a child star in the 1930s. Would anyone really mourn if Honey Boo Boo passed away? * This week network news broadcasts have spent an average of ten minutes per broadcast
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireJewish-interest license plate: ‘Raz 18’
SAN DIEGO– Our number-one license plate spotter Melanie Rubin has done it again. In Hebrew, raz means “secret” or “mystery” and 18 is the numeric value of the word “chai” or life. So one might read this clever license plate as “the secret of life.”
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Humoring the Headlines: February 10, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Spectators were dazzled by the pyrotechnics, luminescent colors, and special effects of the opening ceremony at the Sochi Winter Olympics. Although Russia claimed it cost a fortune to produce and featured thousands of Russians, conspiracy theorists suspect it was merely a holographic projection of scenes from Avatar and Tron. * Under
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireHumoring the Headlines: February 6, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Archeologists have discovered a network of prehistoric limestone dwellings under Miami Beach. While some of them speculate that the 2,000 year old structures were inhabited by the Tequesta Indians; others believe that they were originally built by one of the lost tribes of Israel because an inscription found in one of
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