File Clerk with Fear of Paper Settles Out of Court with Employer

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May 142013
 

Man Scared of Falling PaperKevin Culpep­per, 28, a file clerk for the Law Offices of Ditto, Ditto & Ditto, filed a law­suit against his employer, stat­ing he was unable to work as he suf­fers from papy­ro­pho­bia, a fear of paper.

““When­ever I would pick up stacks of doc­u­ments to file, I became dizzy, expe­ri­enced short­ness of breath, and heart pal­pi­ta­tions,” said Culpep­per.  “I know it sounds silly, but I kept hav­ing visions of trip­ping and toss­ing the stack in the air, then watch­ing in hor­ror from the ground as hun­dreds of pieces of paper fell down upon me and slice my body to shreds.”

When Cuplep­per spoke to George W. Ditto, Sr., about his con­di­tion, he was told he might be bet­ter off find­ing a new career, but Cuplep­per claimed his spent his entire inher­i­tance from his father’s steam­roller acci­dent on tuition to Ms. Rhoda’s Office Worker School.  (He grad­u­ated with a diploma in filing.)

““Besides that, I’m a hemo­phil­iac,” Cuplpep­per said, “and one I start bleed­ing, I’m like Old Faith­ful; I just keep gush­ing until I pass out.”

Upon hear­ing of his med­ical con­di­tion, Ditto made an offer to set­tle out of court.  In addi­tion, Ditto, Ditto & Ditto have offered to replace their paper files with elec­tronic copies.

““Kevin has been pro­moted to our PDF file clerk, and he will file these dig­i­tal copies into elec­tronic files, mak­ing his fear of paper cuts a moot point.

Cuplpep­per seemed pleased with the out­come.  “I’m touched that Ditto, Ditto & Ditto has offered to work with me instead of putting me out of work.”  He joked, “Unfor­tu­nately, I also have an irra­tional fear of the return key on com­puter keyboards.”

Ditto, Ditto & Ditto did not respond to his joke.  Evi­dently, they didn’t find it very funny.

Man Has Alien and Anal Probe Surgically Removed from His Anus

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May 072013
 

Truck DriverLeroy Burns, 43, a deliv­ery dri­ver for the Wishy Wash­ing Laun­dry Ser­vice, was found run­ning naked through the Hole-in-One Donut Shop/Minature Golf Course early Sun­day morning.

Local police took Burns to the emer­gency room at Kissim­i­coochee Gen­eral Hos­pi­tal after he com­plained of dis­com­fort of the bowels.

Doc­tors removed a large pickle and the car­cass of an uniden­ti­fied crea­ture with large eyes from Burns’ anus.

Burns claimed he was abducted by a U.F.O. while fish­ing in his pon­toon boat on Lake Yukatuka.  “They stripped me naked as a jay­bird and strapped me down to an exam­in­ing table where this lit­tle bald, gray guy messed with my where-the-sun-don’t-shine regions with one of them anal probes,” he said.

Burns, who suf­fers from a con­di­tion known as spon­ta­neous reverse flat­u­lence, said he suf­fered an attack dur­ing the exam­i­na­tion and the alien and anal probe were sucked into his rec­tal cav­ity where they remained until the fly­ing saucer ran out of gas and crashed in the lake.

Although Burns claimed the con­tents of his anus prove the exis­tence of extrater­res­trial life, local author­i­ties claim the alien (after being cleaned up) bears a remark­able resem­blance to Ms. Net­tie B. Perkins’ prize Chi­huahua, Chi­clet, who dis­ap­peared last week.

When asked about the anal probe, Sher­iff Hux­ley said it appeared to be sweet gherkin, but he was not curi­ous enough to take a bite and con­firm it.  He said Burns will be held at the county jail until police have com­pleted their investigation.

Pancake Schnitzel Cooking Class Provides Stress Relief for Vegetarian Moms

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Apr 302013
 

Woman with Giant PancakeWhen Jane Argo, a dieti­cian and foodie, 38, for­merly felt over­whelmed by the ups and downs of life, she used to go straight to com­fort food for relief. How­ever, after gain­ing 30 lbs. after her daugh­ter was born, Argo decided to comit to lifestyle changes that would improve her health, even­tu­ally becom­ing a vegetarian.

Argo’s hus­band, Ted, 43, a police offi­cer, used to kid her that after becom­ing a veg­e­tar­ian, she became an angrier per­son, as she was no longer able to seek out her favorite com­fort foods, because they were made with ani­mal products.

““One day I was just at wit’s end after a dif­fi­cult day and I craved my grandmother’s wiener schnitzel,” Argo said. “I was so frus­trated I just wanted to hit some­thing, and that’s when I saw the left­over pan­cakes from breakfast.”

Tak­ing ten­der­izer ham­mer to the pan­cakes, Argo pro­ceeded to pound the hell out of the pan­cakes until they were the size of man­hole cov­ers. She then breaded them and deep-fried them in canola oil and served them for din­ner, smoth­ered in maple syrup.

““The fam­ily loved them. Ted said the taste reminded him of fried chicken and waf­fles,” Argo said. “I also noticed that all the stress and frus­tra­tion of the day.”

She chris­tened her new recipe a Pfannkuchen­itzel, a mash-up of tra­di­tional the tra­di­tional Ger­man pan­cake and a schnitzel, a bone­less piece of meat ten­der­ized by pound­ing flat.

When­ever she grew agi­tated, Argo con­tin­ued to make her new dish, and other veg­e­tar­ian moth­ers noticed and asked her secret. That’s when she first had the idea to offer a cook­ing class, The Zen of Pfannkuchenitzel.

Before long veg­e­tar­i­ans were mak­ing the pil­grim­age to Argo’s house to beat the hell out of their frus­tra­tions on pan­cakes and deep-fry them for lunch.

““I used to scald my husband’s din­ner when he pissed me off and he com­plained about hav­ing to eat my hate for din­ner,” said Mar­got Ellen­berger, 51, a house­wife and veg­e­tar­ian. “Now he’s con­stantly think­ing up ways to pull my chain, just so he can have Pfannkuchen­itzel for dinner.”

Although it may seem every­one loves Pfannkuchen­itzel, Ed Tan­ner, 64, the owner of an Inter­na­tional House of Pan­cakes in town is not a fan. “That lit­tle veg­e­tar­ian gal has hurt my busi­ness by almost 35% and I’m IHOP­ing mad!”

Argo, in an act of con­tri­tion, has offered to treat Tan­ner to a free class. “I’m sav­ing a ham­mer for Ed,” said Argo. “He’s always wel­come to come over and beat the crap out of pan­cake at my house.”

Husband Accuses Wife of Cheating with Humpback Whale

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Apr 232013
 

Diver and Humpback WhaleErnie Sny­der, 42, a phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sales­man, has filed for a divorce from his wife, Janine, 39, a marine biol­o­gist, stat­ing irrecon­cia­ble dif­fer­ences and accus­ing his estranged wife of adul­tery with a hump­back whale.

““I first began to sus­pect some­thing when I came home from a sales trip and found plank­ton in our bed,” said Sny­der. “When I asked Janine about it, she got defen­sive and said she occa­sion­ally liked to snack in bed when she watched T.V. late at night.”

Uncon­vinced, Sny­der hired a detec­tive to fol­low his wife while he was out of town. When the detec­tive sent the incrim­i­nat­ing pic­tures to Sny­der, he was shocked. “I couldn’t believe it, but the proof was in my hand. Pho­tographs of Janine and a swarthy hump­back whale enjoy­ing inti­mate, can­dlelit din­ners at our favorite restau­rant, Antonio’s; two-stepping together at Honky Tonk Heaven; and shop­ping for adult nov­elty items at Sin­sa­tional out on High­way 69.”

Sny­der opted to play his cards close to his chest and began eaves­drop­ping on his wife as she took long bub­ble­baths while whis­per­ing and laugh­ing on the tele­phone. “For me, the last straw is when I heard her tell a friend that she couldn’t even describe in words what this aquatic mam­mal could do with his blow hole.”

After being con­fronted with the damn­ing pic­tures, Janine admit­ted to her affair. “I didn’t mean for it to hap­pen,” she said, “but I stopped in the Crow’s Nest for a fish & chips bas­ket and a beer after a long day at work, and I felt a pair of large eyes on me. When I turned around, Bertie came over and offered me his fin and intro­duced him­self. He was in town, star­ring in a musi­cal stage pro­duc­tion of Moby Dick, enti­tled “There He Blows!” One thing led to another, and before I knew it, we’d fallen in love.”

Rumors imply that Bertie, the stud whale, moved into the home that Sny­der and Janine shared shortly after Sny­der moved into a nearby apartment.

““I know time heals all wounds and I want Janine to be happy,” Sny­der said, “but I’d be lying if I said I would feel sorry for them if he got harpooned.”

Parents Treasure Pirate-Themed Diapers

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Apr 162013
 

Skull & Crossbones DiaperPar­ents are prais­ing Baby Booty Dia­pers, the new pirate-themed nappy that specif­i­cally indi­cates whether a child has gone num­ber one or num­ber two.

““I love the fun, fes­tive par­rots that cover Baby Booty Dia­pers,” said Melissa Hoskins, 32, a for­mer Cin­derella at Dis­ney World and mother of triplets.  “With three babies, I don’t have time to won­der if one of my sons has soiled his dia­per.  Whey they uri­nate, a sail­ing ship appears on the front of the dia­per and actu­ally sinks, due to the chem­i­cal reac­tion between his urine and the dia­per.  If he defe­cates, a skull and cross­bones appears on the back of the diaper.”

Mother & Toddler Stunt Team Fall into Controversy

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Apr 092013
 

Mother and ToddlerWhen movie pro­duc­ers need a mother and child for a flee­ing vil­lian to knock out of the way, fall from a bal­cony, or mauled by a Rot­tweiler, they call Mandy Knox and her two-year-old daugh­ter, Gertie.

““I never con­sid­ered a career as a stunt mother until a friend make a joke about how clumsy I seemed to be, yet always man­aged to pro­tect Ger­tie,” said Mandy, 27. “I mean, I was con­stantly falling down the stairs with her or acci­den­tally rolling my shop­ping cart into a dis­play of patio stones at the hard­ware store that would then fall on my head.”

Notic­ing how baby Ger­tie seemed to delight in her mother’s clutzi­ness and how resilient Mandy seemed to be, a cast­ing direc­tor for Father’s Day 4: Daddy’s Home offered the mother and daugh­ter an oppor­tu­nity to appear in the movie if they would fall down a spi­ral staircase.

““Ger­tie and I had such a blast, we opened our own stunt mother and child company—Hard Knox Stunts–and we’ve been going gang­busters ever since.”

Some crit­ics, how­ever, con­sider Hard Knox Stunts to be a form of child exploita­tion, if not not abuse. “What kind of mother tosses her child into an aquar­ium of Pirhanah?” asked Jane Moureau, 48, a child advo­cate. “What’s next? A sausage grinder?”

Mandy main­tains she is still a lov­ing, car­ing mother. “Ger­tie is always in bed in by seven o’clock every night, she eats well-balanced, nutri­tious meals, and spends qual­ity time every day with her father and me. I don’t under­stand what the big deal is about. Ger­tie and I always put safety first.”

A recent inves­ti­ga­tion by the Depart­ment of Fam­ily and Children’s Ser­vices (DFCS) after Mandy and Ger­tie were set on fire in Bad Nanny Returns revealed no signs of child abuse or neglect.

When asked how long the mother and daugh­ter stunt team will con­tinue to work, Mandy shrugs and said, “It’s up to Ger­tie. If it starts to feel too much like work and she gets bored, we’ll quit. I only want her to do this while it’s still fun.”

Next up for Mandy and Ger­tie, they will be torn apart in Zombie Poo­dles from Hell.

Police Arrest Public Official in Peep® Show Raid

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Mar 262013
 

Marshmallow Peep ShowKissim­i­coochee Police arrested Griff B. Slagel, 52, the Food Sales Licens­ing Coor­di­na­tor for Cracker County, when they raided the Live Nude Girls & Bait Lounge Sat­ur­day night dur­ing an ille­gal Peep® Show.

When police entered the estab­lish­ment, they found sev­eral female per­form­ers danc­ing while wear­ing noth­ing but strate­gi­cally placed marsh­mal­low Peeps® on their per­son, and Slagel nib­bling the ears off a pink marsh­mal­low bunny nes­tled between a female employee’s legs.  Slagel attempted to swal­low the evi­dence, but police suc­cess­fully force him to purge the evi­dence into a plas­tic bag.

Police Chief Ed Potts, 44, reported it is ille­gal to dance naked with live or images of ani­mals in Kissim­i­coochee, as well as col­or­ing pubic hair to resem­ble plas­tic Easter grass.

Slagel issued a state­ment this morn­ing, stat­ing he had vis­ited the Live Nude Girls & Bait Lounge for a rou­tine inspec­tion and taste test and, in fact, had done noth­ing wrong.  His wife issued her own state­ment shortly after­wards, say­ing, “His ass is Easter grass when I get my hands on him.”

Ms. Amber Jean Hens­ley, 22, a per­former at Live Nude Girls & Bait Lounge has sold her story to Cut Bait or Fish mag­a­zine and will fea­ture in a photo spread in the sum­mer issue, just as soon as the green dye fades from her nether regions.

Mean­while, Just Born, the candy man­u­fac­turer of marsh­mal­low Peeps® plans to sue the own­ers of the Live Nude Girls & Bait Lounge for defamation.

So far, Kissim­i­coochee cit­i­zens have expressed out­rage at the the ille­gal Peep® Show.

““It is a sin to waste a per­fectly good Peep® when chil­dren are starv­ing in Africa,” said Imo­gene Teller, 68, a cashier at the Pig­gly Wig­gly, “besides that, yel­low sugar chafes the thighs some­thing fierce, too.”

““I can­not con­done such irre­spon­si­ble behav­ior from adults in our com­mu­nity,” said Christie Ful­bright, 25, a den­tal hygien­ist and mother of two.  “I’ve already been to the emer­gency room twice this year to have objects removed from my son’s nasal cav­i­ties; I don’t need any­one else giv­ing him ideas of where to stick things.”

““I sure hope this scan­dal won’t cause them to lose their bait license,” said Leroy Haas, 49, a ware­house worker at the Stonewall Grits Com­pany, “because they have the best prices on night crawlers in the county.”

Drinking Moms Book Club Discusses Books Without Reading Them

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Mar 192013
 

My Book Club Only Reads Wine LabelsThe Drink­ing Moms Book Club in Plano, Texas puts a unique spin on book club discussions.

““We’re all so busy try­ing to man­age homes, fam­i­lies, and careers that we decided although we enjoyed par­tic­i­pat­ing in book club dis­cus­sions, we just didn’t have the time to read,” said Allie Hig­gins, 33, wife, mother, and vir­tual masseuse. “But we really loved one another’s com­pany, so we decided to just quit read­ing the book and still get together.”

Accord­ing to Hig­gins, her book club mem­bers meet at a member’s home and enjoy an hour of gos­sip, appe­tiz­ers, and cock­tails, before sit­ting down to dis­cuss that month’s book club selection.

““The host­ess holds up a book she recently pur­chased, and then we go around the cir­cle and give our indi­vid­ual inter­pre­ta­tions of what the book is about based on the title and book cover. After we’ve gone around the cir­cle, we vote on the best answer and then decide whether or not we liked the book.”

Some of the Drink­ing Moms Book Club’s favorite non-reading selec­tions with its inter­pre­ta­tions are as follows:

The Story of O by Pauline Réage
“We are all inspired by this biog­ra­phy of Oprah Win­frey. Love her!”

Fifty Shades of Gray by E.L. James
“We found this novel about Betsy Ross’ strug­gle with post-natal depres­sion while sewing the first Amer­i­can flag to be very pow­er­ful and moving.”

Out­liers by Mal­colm Glad­well
“Obvi­ously, this is about peo­ple who like to tell false­hoods out­doors. Not really my cup of tea, but we like to not read out­side our usual genres.”

Let’s Pre­tend This Never Hap­pened by Jenny Law­son
“Oh god, who hasn’t woken up after a night of exces­sive drink­ing, naked, in the same bed with your room­mate at a women’s col­lege. Of course, I can laugh about it now, but I haven’t spo­ken to Wendy Rhodes since 1998.”

The Immoratal Life of Hen­ri­etta Lacks by Rebecca Sloot
“I just adore a vam­pire story set in the rural United States. I can just pic­ture the undead Hen­ri­etta lurk­ing around the five and dime, stalk­ing her vic­tims who have come to buy penny candy … Spooky!”

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
“The title seems a tad too on the nose. Obvi­ously, it’s a mem­oir writ­ten by the child of a proc­tol­o­gist. Nor­mally, I’d be afraid to pick some­thing like this up, but it was all the rage at the time we decided not to read it.”

Although the Drink­ing Moms Book Club has received crit­i­cism for being so vocal about not read­ing books, Hig­gins defended her mem­bers. “Look, we may not read the book, but at least we buy a copy. We’re not like a lot of those other book club phonies who pre­tend to read the book and then just drink wine and chat about the pros and cons of vagi­nal reju­ve­na­tion or if their hus­bands would be gay for Bradley Cooper. At least we’re using our minds.”

Dominatrix Club for Southern Ladies to Close

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Mar 122013
 

DominatrixThe Kissim­i­coochee Dom­i­na­trix Club for South­ern Ladies will close at the end of the month.  “I really thought Coweta County could use a bit of dis­ci­pline, but you just can’t beat the good man­ners out of a south­ern lady,” said owner Lotta Payne.

““When I saw BDSM, I thought it was a class on toi­let train­ing for chil­dren,” said Mary Ellen Bar­tow, 27, a for­mer con­ve­nience store clerk and stay-at-home mom.  “When I went to the first class and Ms. Payne said we were going to dis­ci­pline a sub, I thought to myself, I won­der what that sand­wich done?”

Beyond igno­rance, Ms. Payne said that many of her stu­dents were con­cerned about being per­ceived as too agres­sive or manly.  “I tried to show the girls that a dom­i­na­trix can flog a man and still main­tain her fem­i­nin­ity, but they just couldn’t seem to grasp it.”

““I tried,” said Erma Fuller, 48, church organ­ist and home­maker.  “I’m will­ing to cane a man, if that’s what he wants, but my mama would kill me if I didn’t offer him a glass of iced tea and some peach cob­bler first.  Ater all, a man can’t be be humil­i­ated on an empty stomach.”

Ms. Payne does give props to her stu­dents in one area, though.  “They were real atten­tive dur­ing my lec­tures on safety and clean­ing equipment.”

““I’m always inter­ested to hear how to remove blood stains,” said Jolene John­son, 36, a book keeper for Yee-Hawl Mov­ing & Stor­age.  “What mother isn’t?”

Still, Ms. Payne has no regrets.  “I gave it a shot, but I know when to stop beat­ing a dead horse.  I stopped the whip­pin’ before it whipped me.”

The Kissim­i­coochee Dom­i­na­trix Club for South­ern Ladies will be replaced by Miss Grace’s Charm School for Girls, which will open in early April.

Traces of Girl Scout Cookies Found in Ikea Swedish Meatballs

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Mar 052013
 

Girl Scout CookiesSwedish fur­ni­ture retailer Ikea has pulled their famous Swedish meat­balls from their Atlanta store after traces of Girl Scout Cook­ies were found in one batch.

DNA test­ing of one order of meat­balls to go at the Every Lab Test for a Dol­lar on Peachtree Street revealed traces of Do-si-dos, Samoas, Taga­longs, Thin Mints, and Trefoils.

In spite of Ikea’s deci­sion to with­draw the tainted meat­balls, some cus­tomers don’t seem to mind.

““I thought my meat­balls tasted like a carmel delight,” said Jo Jo Gar­ner, 47, a power Avon rep­re­sen­ta­tive, “but I fig­ured it was just some ancient Swedish secret or something.”

““I’m okay with Thin Mints in my meat­balls,” said Philip Krycik, 33, a real estate attor­ney, “because then I don’t need a breath mint or gum after lunch. I’m all for efficiency!”

This news has, how­ever, tar­nished the favor­able image many Amer­i­cans have of the Swedish retailer. “Yeah, it’s a shame to hear about their meat­balls, because Ikea is one of the great­est gifts the Swedish nation has bestowed upon humankind,” said Reg­gie Parker, 24, a Star­bucks barista and peren­nial fresh­man at Geor­gia State Uni­ver­sity. “They’re right up there with Volvo, ABBA, and Ace of Base!”

When asked to com­ment, the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta remained mum, except stat­ing that they do not offer a whole­sale dis­count on Girl Scout Cookies.

Accord­ing to Ikea’s web­site, over 150 mil­lion of their meat­balls are con­sumed per year in their cafe­te­rias alone.

Some local food ven­dors see the Ikea scan­dal from a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive. “Why hasn’t any­one thought of crum­bling a chocolate-covered peanut but­ter patty into ground beef before?” asked Tomeka Miller, 39, owner of Miss Tee’s Snack Attack. “I have already added Peanut But­ter Cow Pat­ties to my menu. Come get ‘em while they’re hot, sweetie!”

Mean­while, a co-worker at the Any Lab Test for a Dol­lar has come for­ward with a the­ory on the Ikea scan­dal. “Hello! Jamal has been eat­ing boxes and boxes of Girl Scout Cook­ies at his desk the past few weeks and he’s a total pig,” said Regina Phelps, 27. “I’m sur­prised we haven’t found Thin Mints in all of his test results.”

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