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[30 Nov 2007 | No Comment | ]

I hate to break down the 4th wall and talk directly too you but I have to get something off my chest. You know, the guys over in Legal are always getting on my case about publishing things that — every once in a while — might not contain as much truth as they do say lies. They’re always moaning about Libel this and Journalistic Integrity that, and I’m just like, “are you guys new?”
Blogging is about making things up! That’s why we’re here folks. Look at Valleywag or …

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[10 Nov 2007 | One Comment | ]

My psychic tells me that I may have “The Gift,” usually this is right before some sordid story about her cats so I am not really sure what to make of it.
Where was I going with this? Oh yea. One of our Interns was putting together an article on some local Nigerian folk heroes the other day. These kind folk want nothing more than to free us of chains of capitalism and help us to donate to worthy charities all at the same time. I knew he was onto …

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[9 Nov 2007 | One Comment | ]

My name is [Foreign Sounding Name] from [Country That It Is Hard To Pronounce And Almost Impossible To Find On A Map],i am contacting you in regards to my step mother wish, she has been diagnosed for [Horrible Disease] for about 3 years ago, she wrote to donated our funds to charities organization.
She stated that she was touched to donate from what we have inherited from my Father to the Charities and deposit part in my name to further my Education rather than allow my relatives to use the …

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[3 Sep 2007 | No Comment | ]

So, we were sitting around the Spoofs HQ ™, sipping Daiquiri’s and flipping through the latest threats on the lives of our families and friends (mostly written by Spoof staff members after ‘get togethers’ like these) when intern John came by and delivered news that chilled each of us to the depths of our black, stony hearts.

Apparently, people are actually reading this drek.
No, seriously. From the beginning of the month, the number of visitors to the Spoof Mesa ™ has actually pushed us onto Google as well as Alexa’s radar. …

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[29 Aug 2007 | No Comment | ]

Honestly Robert, we’re simply too tired to pick on you. Everyone has already pointed out all the facts, and Uncov took all the wind out of our sails by explaining the pain that your recent attempt at self-flagellation has caused the blogosphere.

What’s left for us to do? Call you an idiot? Say that this entire thing is an exercise in link baiting? Make a funny web comic? What, what do you want from us Robert! We tried so hard, I told the staff that since that Furrier thing we would …