HUMMER BUMMER

By George Held
Detroit (INS) – Word that China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), might veto the proposed purchase of Hummer by a Sichuan car manufacturer has brought swift reaction here in the United States. In an INS (Infauxtainment News Service) poll, most American responders agreed that Sichuan should stick to [...]

Top 10 New Ice Cream Flavors For Summer

By Jill Hampton

Boston, MA (INS) Aren’t you tired of all the standard ice cream and sorbet flavors? The International Ice Cream Consortium (IICC) has heard your prayers. Now you can savor these new delectable desserts! The 10 most popular are:
10. Chocolate Clam Chunk
9. Broccoli Swirl Whip
8. Gizzard Crunch
7. Banana Haggis Delight
6. [...]

In Your Facebook!

By Pete Grossman
Palo Alto, CA (INS) Facebook, the ubiquitous social network, is preparing to upgrade its software with a new “Get Lost” feature. It tells people who are trying to “friend” you who you have no desire to be in contact with, to cease requesting so. This covers schmucks from elementary, junior high, high school [...]

Tweets From History – It’s All In Your Head

What if Twitter existed in the past? What would historical figures, profound minds and self-involved celebs have “tweeted” about? Only Infauxtainment knows. We like to call it “InfauxTwitter.”
By Jill Hampton
Vienna (INS) Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis, made the words and phrases id, ego, superego, unconscious, anal, repression, and defense mechanism popular. And oh yeah, [...]

Florida Strengthens Northern Border

By Bill Britton
Tallahassee, FL (INS) Because of the threatened influx of retiring baby boomers, Governor Christ has decided to strengthen Florida’s northern border. At present, the ten inspection checkpoints at major highway border crossings only examine tractor-trailer contents for agricultural products that might contain insect or disease pests.
“Now we have a more serious pest,” said Christ [...]

Huge ED Firm Is Hung Out To Dry

By George Held
Boston (INS) Andrew S. Samson, the spokesman for Boston Medical Group (BMG), the impotency-fighting firm whose ads saturate sports radio, has been indicted for multiple acts of unlawful solicitation. Acting on an anonymous tip, Metropolitan Police booked Mr. Samson this morning after a raid on a downtown hotel. [The Boston Red Sox confirmed [...]

Top 10 Rejected Diet and Fitness Books

By Jill Hampton
Westchester, NY (INS) As reported in Infauxtainment on Tuesday, May 26, 2008, book publishers are rifling through their catalogs to see if they can find manuscripts to bolster their revenue. Here are the Top 10 rejected diet and fitness book titles that didn’t cut it:
10. One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, More!!!
9. Hope [...]

Robert Downey, Jr. Cast as Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Pete Grossman
Hollywood, CA (INS) It has been confirmed that Steven Spielberg will produce the definitive Martin Luther King, Jr. biography and will cast Robert Downy, Jr. as the slain civil rights leader.
“Robert Downey, Jr.’s work in Tropic Thunder, where he portrays an African-American actor convinced me that he could play Martin Luther King, Jr.,” [...]

Elizabeth Tweeter

By Pete Grossman
Santa Monica, CA (INS) Recently it was reported that Elizabeth Taylor was using the 140 character communication phenomenon, Twitter, from her hospital bed to update followers on her status. Several “tweets” (what Twitter calls messages) were censored, but Infauxtainment fortunately has found them. They include:

There are a few more stray Taylor tweets hanging [...]



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