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SATIRE: Multinationals Collapse, Former CEOs Blame Symbolic Protest

1 April 2014 - 4:33am | superuser
by Rrrrrralph Fecund (Jason Pramas)

APRIL FOOLS!

BOSTON - Exactly 99 percent of the world's population rejoiced shortly after midnight Eastern Daylight Time when all of the world's multinational corporations simultaneously closed their doors and handed their ready cash over to federal treasuries in their countries of origin with a mandate to give it out "to each according to his or her need."

Buncha White Boston Pols Arrested for Doin' Stuff

1 April 2011 - 2:49pm | superuser
by Twinkie T. Kid (Staff)

APRIL FOOLS! ... BOSTON/South Boston - According to some guy on the street, a bunch of white local and state politicians were arrested in a lightning dawn raid near the corner of L St. and E. Broadway by elements of the Federal Secret Interrogation while on their way home from an all-night bender at the taxpayers' expense.

Kill Bill 2011

28 January 2011 - 11:45pm | superuser
by Barbara Mende (Independent)

I’m not making this up, as Dave Barry might say.
Eric Cantor has tried to make healthcare go ‘way.
He pushed through the House, and this is a fact,
The “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.”
He’s been unfazed that, as of this minute,
The Senate just doesn’t seem interested in it.

OmniMegaCorp Announces Armed Merger with Open Media Boston (... April Fools!)

1 April 2010 - 1:58am | superuser
by Martin T. Martian (Staff)

BOSTON - In a surprise move, OmniMegaCorp of New York and Ulan Bator - a leisure service of the Bank of Insubtantia - proclaimed its hostile takeover of Open Media Boston at an early morning press conference in a bunker in an undisclosed location.

OmniMegaCorp Chairman Translation Yclept set a brisk agenda for his first day in charge of the once-feisty weekly news publication. Over a bowl of the company's much-feared Weevilz'n'Bitz breakfast slurry, his first order of business was to crush all opposition.

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