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Friday, September 9, 2011

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Monday, May 9, 2011

GOP Candidates Clamor for Face Transplants After Successful Surgery

All but one hope for a "Reagan face" – Huckabee prefers "Jesus face, but with short hair"

A Humor Times Special Report

With Republican presidential candidates jockeying for position in an uphill battle against a formidable Obama, they are looking for every advantage. And now, with the nation's first face transplant a success, many of them think they have found the solution.

Synthetic Reagan face ready for implanting.
Candidates say GOP "can't lose"
with Reagan look.
"Look, we are under no illusion that Obama will be hard to beat in 2012, especially after his recent exploits in Pakistan," said presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich. "But we Republicans do not give up easily, nor are we very good at facing the truth. We simply change the game."


Tim Pawlenty, the onetime governor of Minnesota, says he would make the best Reagan, and the others should "find their own new looks." "Let's 'face' the facts," he explained, using air quotes, "if Reagan were here today, I'm quite confident he would anoint me as the one to follow in his great footsteps, and in his great face."

The new development threatens to sow even more disharmony amongst GOP contenders, a group that is already known for snide remarks behind each other's backs.

"Tim's a nice guy, maybe too nice for his own good," said Donald Trump. "He should be happy with his own face, he's a nice looking guy. Me, I'm rich, and let's face it, not that blessed in the handsomeness department. And I'm the most like Reagan, as far as being a hero to average Americans, who love to tune into my great show, Celebrity Apprentice, Sundays on NBC."

"All these guys wanting to be Reagan, it just shows their unoriginality, and that they are willing to set their sites too low," said Mike Huckabee. "Me, I'm going for the gusto, I'm ordering a Jesus face. Without all the hair, of course. Americans are ready for a real leader, a man like Jesus, and who better than me, who's holier than all those guys put together?"
Critics, even among Republicans, say the candidates are too quick to embrace such radical change, and that it opens them up to charges of being "two-faced."

"That's hooey," said former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. "It's not radical to reach back to a time when Americans felt secure and trusted their leader. Of course, I don't need the operation myself, I'm already too sexy for my own good."

In a related development, conspiracy theorists say Osama bin Laden not only survived getting shot in the face, but he's already received a Barack Obama face transplant. Being tall and dark like Obama, they theorize, he will have no problem taking the president's place, in an operation they say Al Qaeda had been planning all along.

"You see, we were right in demanding that Obama be impeached for not being American, we were just ahead of the curve," said Minnesota Representative and presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Urgent Letter to his Royal Highness Prince Williams of England Intercepted

A Humor Times Exclusive

The following is a letter received by his Royal Highness Prince Williams of England just a week before his wedding to the commoner Kate Middleton, which the Humor Times was able to intercept:
 
Sure, everything seems wonderful now...
Dearest, most exalted, Royal Highness Prince Williams,

It is out of the utmost duty that I write this missive to you before your day of marital conjoining with the commoner Kate Middleton. It is a duty not of a peasant from a colony warning his lordly comrade from the upper class of dangers, but something of a closer bond. It is a kinship of, if I may dare say, man to man, or in this case, man to pampered, green school boy who, in all reality, has despite handicap done rather well for himself.

It may seem rude or impolite that I, one of the dirty, lowly, down trodden working class, would even dare to impart an understanding to one so obviously high in station above me, but it must be said. Surely those poof boys and thin veined girl servants that administer to you all day meeting all your demands but enacting them with the absolute minimum amount of social contact possible will not have the wit or the nerve to warn you.

And God knows the ministers and lords who direct your life and position themselves as surrogate fathers would not inform you of the dire danger hence approaching, my most gracious One. Lord no! They spent a life time building up their career positions and would dare not endanger it with timely warnings to a royal sprout, even if he stand chance to be the future King. They will let the guillotine fall where it will.

No, I must take this difficult task upon myself, and alone bear the consequences of the fruit it may bear.

Let me be the one to warn you, dear William, of the seriousness of the danger you now face. It can be summed up in one word:

WOMEN!!!

Yes, my unfortunate William, you are about to embark upon an odyssey that many braver and more tried men have faced and sunk and drowned thereby. That perilous journey is that of marrying one of these creatures of the damned.

Alas, dear William, do not be taken in by ravishing faces and well turned ankles. There is a Devil, William, and it is not a he. It is Woman, disguising herself to throw off the faithful men who would other wise be true and virtuous were it not for an Eve's lustful temptation. Few know that Beelzebub had boobs. Satan is a woman and the spirit of this evil lurks hidden in the dark heart that lies beneath her ample bosoms. Behind their angelic looks and come hither smiles, there always lurks a dark beast that is only satiated by male blood.

I know, William, the truth is hard to face. The females themselves often know it not themselves. But the cold hard truth of the matter that lies beneath all the illusions of our lives, that the impulse behind all the flesh toned nylons, the come hither smiles, the darkened bedroom eyes, the low cut dresses, the brick shithouse figures, the seemingly innocent flashes of lithesome breasts, of slender waists, of sturdy thighs; all of these things are oriented toward the fulfillment of Woman's one basic, soul deep desire:

They want us to help make babies for them.

This is the sad truth we men must face William – they want and need us only to pop a bun in the oven for them. In all reality they have no other use for us. We are merely the carriers of life's vital essence that they need within themselves to reach their destiny. Other than that we are merely noisy, belching, football watching, toilet fouling, lay abouts who would die miserable, starving deaths were it not for them taking care of us.

And you have been targeted by one of them. She saw you coming William. Commoners are often unexpectedly brilliant when it comes to knowing the right things to say to get close to their prey, much the same talent as assassins have who specialize in slitting throats. And geared into their DNA are the secrets of seduction, the talent of taking down a man no matter how strong, intelligent or talented he may be like a circus calf with John Wayne after him.

Woe be to we men Williams, for it is our lot to play the fools in the game of life. Although it appears that we have conquered and run the world by the time the last acts curtain has opened and we end the play humiliated, disgraced and defeated by powers we can't see and don't understand, it is too late and we leave life's stage lesser than when we began, with an ego shriveled like wild berries in the hot August sun.

Beware, dear William, your inheritance is that of a King, but Life's dowry, via a woman, shall bring upon your neck knave-hood's yolk.

– Anonymous

Reported by Roger Freed, Humor Times' Senior Royal Rumors Correspondent

Friday, March 25, 2011

Seasonal Asset Disorder

Affliction reportedly exacerbated by tax season

A Humor Times Special Report

Seasonal Asset Disorder (SAD), also known as tax depression or tax blues, is a mood disorder in which people with abundant financial security experience feelings of scarcity and financial insecurity. The disorder is often brought on or exacerbated by tax season.

Although not considered a mental disease, SAD is classified as a mental disorder. Sufferers begin to feel what they have may not be enough, and then begin to be resentful regarding paying their share of taxes. Those with SAD often have trouble discerning wants from needs and the disorder can lead to extremely delusional thinking regarding what is enough.

Most people who get SAD just get SADDER and SADDER.

The disorder affects approximately 20% of the US population and can be severe for those making $300K per year or more. It effects an inordinate amount of sports stars, entertainers and congressmen. It is estimated that SAD costs the US billions of dollars each year in lost tax revenue.

Symptoms vary widely but often include a burning desire to establish trusts and foundations, a need to establish family vacation property as ranch property, or wanting to designate large family estates as agricultural land. SAD people move money to offshore accounts, believe pets are dependent children, and even claim charitable donations they have not made.

Most people with the disorder own more than one home and have several vehicles. Over half of the people with SAD have never worked at job other than managing the family trust. If left completely untreated, many SAD people flock to the Republican and Tea Parties.

To severe sufferers, things like tax cuts for the rich, eliminating programs for senior citizens and even denying access to basic health care to individuals less fortunate can seem reasonable and responsible. "Crazy ideas can appear like good fundamental ideas to SAD people" said one clinical expert on the disorder.

It is important for those with Seasonal Asset Disorder to seek help from a professional. Unfortunately, most who do seek treatment look to tax accountants and tax attorneys only to find they too are SAD.

The Internal Revenue Service has set up calling centers and is standing by to get help quickly to those identified with SAD.


Reported by Kate Morrison, Humor Times Senior SAD correspondent

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Jared Loughner: 'Rhetoric Should Be Toned Down'

Says crosshairs "pretty messed up"

A Humor Times Exclusive

TUCSON - In his first statements to the press since he was charged with gunning down six innocent people and the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabriel Giffords, Jared Lee Loughner said his actions were not brought about by incendiary political statements but cautioned that public discourse should be handled in a more civilized manner.

"I was not in any way motivated by politically charged comments from the right or the now in famous Palin 'Hit List,'" said the 22 year old murder suspect, "but when you put out a map with crosshairs over a member of congress' district, that's pretty messed up."

Wearing an orange prison jump suit with hands and feet shackled, Loughner stated, "If grammar does not exist then government does not exist and if government does not exist then I am innocent," adding, "but if grammar does exist then we should seriously stay away from inflammatory comments such as 'reload' and 'second amendment remedies.' Some one could obviously take that the wrong way."

He went on to urge politicians on both sides of the isle to choose their words more carefully "in order not to divide an already fractured nation."

Jonathan Crockett, Humor Times