Category: Spoofs
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Renewed McCarthy, revived Bergen back in limelight
DECATUR, Mich. – For years fans have wondered what happened to Charlie McCarthy, the mischievous dummy who paired with ventriloquist Edgar Bergen in a long and successful career on stage…
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Crime and pun-ishment: There oughta be a law
This week's column is taken straight from local agency reports. Orange County police blotter UNC campus police report that a graduate assistant doing a large-scale experiment with caustic liquids was…
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Cisco/Crisco merger to produce slickest high-tech yet
SAN JOSE, Calif. and ORRVILLE, Oh. — Cisco Systems®, the leading supplier of networking equipment and Crisco® Oils and Shortenings, a spin-off from the J.M. Smucker Company, announced today the…
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Wins and losses: The woos and woes of “going pro”
NOW THAT BASKETBALL PLAYING SEASON is over (no, the NBA doesn't count), for fans of the top teams, it is a season of sadness and helplessness, as the college basketball…
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UNC hires Graham to head new Department of Irreligion
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina is set to hire William Franklin Graham III as the founding director of what is believed to be the nation's first department…
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Coaches Krzyzewski and Williams fined for comments
GREENSBORO — The Atlantic Coast Conference today announced substantial fines levied on head coaches Michael Krzyzewski and Roy Williams, of Duke University and the University of North Carolina, respectively, for…
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Shari Lewis exhumed; Lamb Chop again under suspicion
Editor's note: Despite last week's column's promise to deliver all the celebrity news our readers would ever need to read, as you will see, we had to publish this story.…
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Today’s time and money saver: The generic celebrity news
READERS MAY WISH TO CLIP this special special-edition column and save it to read every week, or even every day if necessary, as it allows an individual to keep up…
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TSA gropes to balance traveler safety and satisfaction
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Continuing to grope for an answer to the conundrum of how to provide enhanced security against terrorists who are targeting airline travel while it tries to satisfy…
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Names in the news: Orange community spotlight
Due to comments from my editor, Dan "Oh, by the" Way, "suggesting" that I was not putting enough "Local" in my Local Voices column, this week's column is entirely local.…
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