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only_human 2017-07-28 15:04

NSFW: [URL="http://www.theonion.com/infographic/onion-fact-checks-anthony-scaramuccis-new-yorker-i-56502"]Onion Fact Checks: Anthony Scaramucci’s ‘New Yorker’ Interview[/URL]
[QUOTE]In an interview with The New Yorker earlier today, White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci leveled harsh criticism against the FBI and members of the Trump administration. The Onion fact-checks Scaramucci’s claims.[/QUOTE]

kladner 2017-08-01 16:02

Top White House Aides Tricked By Email Prankster Posing As Other Top Aides
 
[URL]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-aides-tricked-email-prankster_us_59800071e4b00bb8ff391b7e[/URL]
The naivete and ineptitude of these bozos continues to amaze. As mendacious as they all are, one would think they might be a little more wary.
[QUOTE]Senior officials at the [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/white-house"]White House[/URL], including ousted communications director [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/anthony-scaramucci"]Anthony Scaramucci[/URL], were duped by an email prankster after being sent a series of messages that appeared to come from other top aides in the [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/trump-administration/"]Trump administration[/URL], [URL="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/white-house-officials-tricked-by-email-prankster/index.html"]CNN first reported[/URL] Monday night.

The anonymous prankster, who lives in Britain and tweets using the handle [URL="https://twitter.com/SINON_REBORN"]@SINON_REBORN[/URL], reportedly posed as White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus in one of the email chains to Scaramucci shortly after Priebus announced his resignation last week.

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science_man_88 2017-08-01 19:54

[QUOTE=kladner;464688][URL]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-aides-tricked-email-prankster_us_59800071e4b00bb8ff391b7e[/URL]
The naivete and ineptitude of these bozos continues to amaze. As mendacious as they all are, one would think they might be a little more wary.[/QUOTE]

almost wonder what they would do if someone made a spambot filter where they send themselves and email and it starts an infinite loop of sending emails.

ixfd64 2017-09-03 02:29

[url]http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/09/01/library-chuck-e-cheese-tokens-danvers[/url]

kladner 2017-09-14 02:19

Porn Industry Irrevocably Damaged by Association with Ted Cruz
 
[URL]https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/porn-industry-irrevocably-damaged-by-association-with-ted-cruz[/URL]
WASHINGTON ([URL="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report"]The xxxxxxxx Report[/URL])—The pornography industry has likely suffered permanent damage as a result of its unfortunate association with the Texas senator Ted Cruz, industry sources said on Tuesday.

Porn, which takes in annual profits of fifteen billion dollars, could see those revenues decimated if, as some industry experts fear, users begin to have intrusive thoughts involving Senator Cruz. :missingteeth:

LaurV 2017-09-16 14:22

[QUOTE=kladner;467748]Ted Cruz .. <snip>[/QUOTE]
Ha, I had the shock of my life when I clicked on that article. I saw ceausescu reincarnated... the guy looks exactly like the ousted Romanian tyrant...

kladner 2017-09-16 16:27

Yes. That was a particularly hideous shot of Cruz, not that he needs any help in the appearance department.

kladner 2017-09-19 04:29

Top. Men.
 
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[URL]https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/mueller-rents-giant-warehouse-to-store-evidence-against-trump[/URL]
[B]Mueller Rents Giant Warehouse to Store Evidence Against Trump
[/B][QUOTE]Robert Mueller is renting a massive warehouse facility in suburban Virginia to accommodate the approximately [U][B]forty [SIZE=4][COLOR=Red]cubic(?) tons[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/U][SIZE=4][COLOR=Red](?!)[/COLOR][/SIZE] of evidence against Donald Trump that the independent counsel’s investigation is generating on a daily basis.Employing over two thousand workers in a warehouse the size of seven football fields, the Mueller investigation has become the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics[/QUOTE][B].[/B]

science_man_88 2017-09-19 10:24

[QUOTE=kladner;468070][URL]https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/mueller-rents-giant-warehouse-to-store-evidence-against-trump[/URL]
[B]Mueller Rents Giant Warehouse to Store Evidence Against Trump
[/B][B].[/B][/QUOTE]

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_ton[/url]

xilman 2017-09-19 10:27

The following doesn't reduce the illiteracy exhibited in your quote, but I observe that forty cubic metres of water has a mass of forty tonnes. Paper has a density close to that of water and perhaps where the confusion arose. If an editor changed the original to convert cubic metres (relatively unfamiliar, I believe, to an American readership) into tons and failed to remove the word "cubic".

Dr Sardonicus 2017-09-19 12:56

[QUOTE=LaurV;467902]Ha, I had the shock of my life when I clicked on that article. I saw ceausescu reincarnated... the guy looks exactly like the ousted Romanian tyrant...[/QUOTE]
Hmm (looks up pix of Ceausescu), there is a certain resemblance. It must be a coincidence. My theory is that Ted Cruz is the love child of Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy.


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