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China Says Shocking Uptick in Urn Sales Just Because They Have Too Much Money

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China Says Shocking Uptick in Urn Sales Just Because They Have Too Much Money

China Says Shocking Uptick in Urn Sales Just Because They Have Too Much Money

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesChinese citizens have been ordered to stay in their houses and to wear masks, so that they don’t accidentally inhale any of the currency, which could choke and possibly kill them. When too many Chinese currency notes are inhaled, a distressing respiratory illness can occur.

The Misery of Rancid Crabtree

The Misery of Rancid Crabtree

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRancid was poor.

But he taught the best lesson.

Boeing Celebrates 737 Max Being Carbon Free for 1 Year

Boeing Celebrates 737 Max Being Carbon Free for 1 Year

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBoeing celebrated it’s Boeing 737-Max being greenhouse-gas free for one year recently, inviting investors to lap up more stocks of the stupendous aircraft company.

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Trump Says He Prevented Chinese Hackers from Installing COVID-19

Trump Says He Prevented Chinese Hackers from Installing COVID-19

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute“We’re rebooting in safe mode, so that’s why you’re quarantined. Chy-nuh is clever. Any of you could be a virus, we don’t know, we don’t know. All of CNN is infected, they’re fake news.”

Johns Hopkins Data Confirms COVID-19, Utah in Committed Relationship

Johns Hopkins Data Confirms COVID-19, Utah in Committed Relationship

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesJohns Hopkins, which has been using arcgis mapping to provide routine updates to the extent of COVID-19 exposure, said that post welcoming-ceremony data shows that Utah is now in a committed relationship with the world-destroying pathogen.

Lonely Man Hoping to Get COVID-19 so That Someone Might Care for Him

Lonely Man Hoping to Get COVID-19 so That Someone Might Care for Him

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe interviewed a local, lonely man via Zoom, to see how social distancing is impacting his mental illness. Mr. Luke Han Necessary, whose last name is apparently not a joke, spoke to us at an almost unbearable length—in excess of 6 minutes.

An Important Note on COVID-19 (From Lucas)

An Important Note on COVID-19 (From Lucas)

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesI am committed to providing friends and scores of would-be female lovers with the epitome of quality in human interaction. Given the ever-shifting situation surrounding COVID-19, I wanted to alert you to some changes that have taken place over the last several days, as well as ones to happen in the weeks to come.

State Days of Mourning Declared as Montana, Wyoming Close Bars

State Days of Mourning Declared as Montana, Wyoming Close Bars

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s estimated that roughly 30% of Montana’s population will die in the next two weeks from delirium tremens (DTs).

Meryl Streep to Teach Senators How to Act Like They Care

Meryl Streep to Teach Senators How to Act Like They Care

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesStreep says that though the senators have already mastered faking smiles while lying, most of them still have to stab themselves with forks in order to produce a tear over things like the plight of the homeless and people dying by the millions.

Thinking About Changing Genders? COVID-19 Kills More Men, So Now’s the Time!

Thinking About Changing Genders? COVID-19 Kills More Men, So Now’s the Time!

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCOVID-19: The Unlikely Cure for Toxic Masculinity?

Ginsburg Launched into Space to Protect Her from COVID-19

Ginsburg Launched into Space to Protect Her from COVID-19

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute If Trump gets even one more pick for the Supreme Court, it will be the end of democracy in this country forever, just as it was with justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. —Nancy Pelosi

Planned Parenthood: What If We Can Modify COVID-19 to Kill Only Babies?

Planned Parenthood: What If We Can Modify COVID-19 to Kill Only Babies?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt its current lethality level, the CEO of Planned Parenthood described the virus as “laughably JV.”

Trump Not Grabbing Women ANYWHERE Due to Coronavirus Fears

Trump Not Grabbing Women ANYWHERE Due to Coronavirus Fears

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe American president is also curtailing his dalliances with pornstars as an extra effort to limit the spread of the disease.

Review: Josh “I Win” Bantam

Review: Josh “I Win” Bantam

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesSometimes crushing people at games gets him so excited that he rips off his shirt while jumping up from the table, which he then flips over while bellowing, “I AM THE ONE-NIGHT ULTIMATE WEREWOLF! I AM! NOT YOU! ARRGGGGHHHHHHWWWWWWWW!!!”

Biden Promises Female Running Mate (If Her Hair Smells Good)

Biden Promises Female Running Mate (If Her Hair Smells Good)

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute“I can’t promise to maintain the social distancing or whatever, not necessarily. How can I know if she’s the right one if I can’t, I can’t sniff those sweet hairs? Come’ere, honey,” he told the female debate moderator while trying to grab her by the shoulders.

Dem Candidates Required to Wear Giant Bubbles to Tonight’s Debate

Dem Candidates Required to Wear Giant Bubbles to Tonight’s Debate

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA staffer for the Biden campaign accidentally removed the child-proofing door-handle cover to his room, and the candidate has subsequently been seen wandering the debate stage in his bubble, hours in advance of the actual curtain time. It’s expected to be his strongest performance of the night.

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Joe Biden Tests Negative for Spanish Flu

Joe Biden Tests Negative for Spanish Flu

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute“My mind is sharper than a, a, you know the thing,” Biden said in a remark in the nation’s capital. “I don’t have any brain problems, I’m fiddle as a fit.”

EPIDEMIC TIPS: Local Man Expert on Social Distancing

EPIDEMIC TIPS: Local Man Expert on Social Distancing

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesOffering helpful tips such as, “have a really rotten disposition,” “make dumb, awkward jokes,” and “be sure you’re physically unattractive, or even repulsive, if you can swing that,” he’s done a great deal to curb the spread of the illness.

Sanders Scratches 3 Jobs Off Application List: Prophet, Journalist, President

Sanders Scratches 3 Jobs Off Application List: Prophet, Journalist, President

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSanders received word that he also wouldn’t be getting the journalist job he wanted or the role of head prophet for the DNC after problematic past tweets were discovered.

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WHO: COVID-19 Leading to Startling Rise in Number of Epidemiologists

WHO: COVID-19 Leading to Startling Rise in Number of Epidemiologists

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe are seeing a startling rise in the number of infectious-disease specialists; they’re popping up everywhere. Your friends, your family, people who you thought weren’t at risk…one of them will probably specialize in diseases by the end of this briefing.

EXTROVERTS OUTRAGED: How Come Introverts Aren’t Getting Coronavirus?

EXTROVERTS OUTRAGED: How Come Introverts Aren’t Getting Coronavirus?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe extroverts, who have always done better at getting things, such as raises and relationships, were furious that they’re somehow better at getting a virulent contagion, too. None of those in attendance could figure out why it might be happening, though several hundred collapsed in the crowd and were unable to contribute their thoughts.

Market Giving Biden Flashbacks to 1929

Market Giving Biden Flashbacks to 1929

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the time of this writing, Biden was seen asking an aide to short shares of Studebaker.

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Americans on Capitalism: Stupid Golden Age Makes Everything Look Too Yellow!

Americans on Capitalism: Stupid Golden Age Makes Everything Look Too Yellow!

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI for one stand with Bernie Sanders: capitalism needs to buy the farm, or better yet, seize it from the landowner by force.

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Supremes: Prisons Prohibited from Observing Daylight Saving Time, Violates Freedom from Cruel & Unusual Punishment

Supremes: Prisons Prohibited from Observing Daylight Saving Time, Violates Freedom from Cruel & Unusual Punishment

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the sole dissenting vote, writing with cutting disagreement that eliminating daylight savings time will “unfairly impede the ability of inmates to milk cows, pasture sheep, and attend to beaver slides.”

Physicians: Dementia Patients Should Be Supervised Around Sharp Objects; Nuclear Launch Codes

Physicians: Dementia Patients Should Be Supervised Around Sharp Objects; Nuclear Launch Codes

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile he seems to have a bit of a stutter, it’s Biden’s “advanced hypermalignant superdementia” that has given the AGS some pause. James Cromwell, the head of the AGS, told reporters in a phone interview,

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