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NEW YORK - Apathy among the American Public has hit a 250 year high, according to the latest IRREVERENT/NY times poll.
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Monkey Pile
There is a theory that if an infinite number of monkeys typed at an infinite number of typewriters, they'd produce the collected works of Shakespeare.  Well, here we go.

Murdered Killer Bees Print E-mail
Contributed by John Sammon   
Saturday, 26 May 2007 (read 2094 times)
Killer bees.This is it.

This is really the end…maybe. The end of the world.

I knew the end of the world wouldn't be some spectacular thing, some giant asteroid plowing into earth, or a tidal wave, or even global warming (what's a little heat after all?).

I knew whatever it was. It would be small. Tiny. Something you could barely see. Buzzing. Hear that buzzing sound?  

Bees. Bees are disappearing. They're going away and not coming back. Something is causing bees the world over to fly off and not return to the hive.  

You want to know how serious this is? Bees pollinate the world's plants. What do you think happens when bees are no longer around to pollinate plants?

You like being hungry? Good!
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I Want to be a Nappy Headed Ho Print E-mail
Contributed by John Sammon   
Wednesday, 11 April 2007 (read 1595 times)
I would love someone on network TV to call me a "tattooed, nappy-headed ho." Please! It would mean so much to me.

I never heard of this goof Don Imus until the recent firestorm controversy when he called the female Rutgers basketball team a bunch of, "tattooed, nappy-headed hos."  

Should we be shocked? A slander innuendo newscaster who gets paid for being outrageous got in trouble for being outrageous.

"Nappy" means curly headed, I think. Ho, I believe, is imitated inner-city (African American) speak for the word "whore."

It’s tasteless. It’s vulgar. It’s wrong.

It’s ratings.
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Make Iraq a State Print E-mail
Contributed by John Sammon   
Sunday, 01 April 2007 (read 1327 times)
Iraq: State 51Make Iraq a new American state, our 51st State of the Union.

I want all you Republicans out there to do something completely different. Something you've never done in your life. Something totally foreign to your nature.

Criticize a high up official in your own party. Once you try it, you'll like it.

Are you one of those Republicans who buy everything Bush says?  

If he fails again and again and again. And we have a new scandal not just every week now, but each day. Tuesday's finding will be that cross-dressing high ranking Republicans gang-raped a boy scout.
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Open The Door Print E-mail
Contributed by Tyrone Mercer   
Sunday, 11 March 2007 (read 1899 times)

That christians can write satire will come as a bit of a shock to you, and probably cement the impression that I'm only one sword short of a crusade, but one of the research monkeys shook this out of the Google Tree(tm) the other day and I had to share it.  It demonstrates that being irreverent isn't necessarily reserved for us secular humanists.  Said monkey found it when he was supposed to be finding me some dirt on Scott that I didn't already have.*   Enjoy.

http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/archives/noahconference.html

PS I'd recommend a look around the rest of the site as well.  Especially for you progressivist, “save the poor,” anti-capitalist, non IRREVERENT T-shirt buying, hippies out there.  A word of warning:  any feelings about religious conversion you may feel is not my fault.  These guys are good at what they do despite having an Onion banner on the link page.  

PPS To the publishers of The Door:  Great work.  Unfortunately I'm a litte full up with charitible deductions at the moment, but allow me to send you an absolutely genuine prayer hankie I received from some nice fellows in Tulsa.  Unfortunately it's slightly used but I can confirm that it works.  As soon as I got it I handed it to Suntori to wipe his nose.  Being an investigatory, and highly superstitious soul, he followed the instructions and slept with it under his pillow.  It worked after a fashion, two weeks later he was blessed with a cold.

*A futile exercise really but it's a great test to see how much brown nosing potential the new interns have.

 

Extra Work Print E-mail
Contributed by John Sammon   
Friday, 23 February 2007 (read 1419 times)

Below is an excerpt from a book I'm working on that recounts (in part) some of my experiences as a fledgling actor back in the 1970s, when I was appearing in some really bad movies.


Here I am, fresh from the hinterlands, standing on the set of an actual movie. Actually, I'm standing in the background where it's appropriate for those of my cast to stand, a mere extra player, far from the cameras and their attendant technicians, and the stars, who include David Carradine, and a former Playboy bunny turned somewhat actress named Claudia Jennings (her real name is Mimi Chesterton).

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