Category: Spoofs

  • Now introducing . . . the Albatross!

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Congress today ordered General Motors to begin producing "as quickly as feasible" a brand new model for its Cadillac line of passenger vehicles, the Albatross.…

  • The burdens of being a Local Voice

    I AM A LOCAL VOICE. It says so right here in the paper. Look, up at the top of this column. It'd be nice if I could be a disembodied…

  • Gaddy to be replaced as columnist

    DURHAM, N.C. — Higher management of the Durham Herald-Sun announced today that, effective with today's column, Gary D. Gaddy has been replaced as the Chapel Hill Herald's Leading Regular Thursday…

  • McCain-Palin sighted in Carrboro

    CARRBORO — The town of Carrboro has issued a special bulletin alerting citizens to be on the lookout for light-colored passenger vehicle, a late model foreign import, probably a Honda…

  • Neutered Dictionary’s release postponed

    CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina Press announced today that the scheduled release of "The Roy Williams Dictionary of Neutered Synonyms: Inexplicit Interjections, Adjectives, Adverbs and Gerunds" has…

  • Dean Smith to coach Obama’s team

    CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Hall of Fame basketball coach Dean E. Smith announced today that he is coming out of his decade-long retirement to coach basketball again. Smith will be…

  • Losers — in the Losers’ Bracket

    MY WIFE IS A LOSER. Or at least she is since she met me. (Which may explain why we have grocery bags full of tennis trophies in our basement, very…

  • Satan goes out at the “top of his game”

    DURHAM — Satan announced today that he is stepping down immediately as the primary force for evil in this world. No word has been given on any of his possible…

  • Ford Announces Water-Powered Automobile

    DETROIT — The Ford Motor Company, in conjunction with Hydrolytics, Inc., announced today that they have produced, in an unprecedented engineering feat, a water-powered car that could end America's dependence…

  • An Olympic collection of odds ‘n’ ends

    BEIJING, via satellite — As the XXIX Olympiad has drawn to close, I can now see the many lessons that I have learned from watching the dedicated and hardworking athletes…