ODE TO SCOTT


Over the years, we all have been taught
The things we should like and the things we should not
But one thing that everyone loves quite a lot
Is anyone blessed with the fine name of Scott.
 
His excellence shines like a bright megawatt
His power is that of a true juggernaut.
His fame rises high like a brave astronaut
Full of charm and charisma and brains and whatnot.

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​OZONE HOLE IS GOD’S PEEPHOLE:
​HE’S WATCHING AND HE’S SERIOUSLY TICKED OFF!


SIDNEY, AUSTRALIA – If you are one of the millions who search the skies for proof of a higher power, be careful. That higher power might be looking for you too!
 
An environmental scientist studying the hole in the ozone layer claims he saw the eye of God staring right back at him.
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Infant's Finger PaintingINFANT'S FINGER PAINTING REVEALS
​LOCATION OF ATLANTIS!

NAPLES, ITALY – Don’t throw away your children’s Crayola scribblings and Play-Doh sculptures as they could lead you to the archeological discovery of the century!
 
A renowned oceanographer credits his 18-month-old son’s finger-painting with providing him the final detail necessary to pinpoint the exact location of the legendary city of Atlantis.
 
“I spent most of my adult life searching for the remains of that amazing, sub-aquatic metropolis,” says Dr. Lazlo Mitchell, professional oceanographer and part-time...
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IRREFUTABLE SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF POLTERGEISTS 

Scientists at some big important university have definitively concluded that poltergeists are a verifiable real world phenomenon based on the following infallible logic chain.

1. Fact: I did not see a poltergeist.  
                                                     
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INNOCENT GOAT-MAN MISTAKEN FOR SATAN

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA - A local recluse, known only as Goat-Man for his bizarre farm-animal features, was mistaken for the Anti-Christ by a mob of vengeful church-goers.

"We'd just finished Sunday services when we saw the abomination come walking down the street like he owned the place," said Margaret Applebee, an elderly parishioner. “Horns. Cloven hooves. Maybe he didn't have a pitchfork or an obvious devotion to evil, but we knew who it was."
                                                             
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THE BOWL OF MUSH

Bolivia looked at the bowl of mush. It was mushy. She had no desire to eat it. Though her stomach screamed in agony with every heartbeat, threatening to begin digestion of its own inner lining at any moment, Bolivia stared at the brown glop with disgust. She had been eating nothing but mush for three hundred and four days. She had counted. And it was time for a change.
 
Bolivia stood up.
 
The room went silent.
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Giant 200 surrounded by fireworks

200TH DAY OF THEFLAGRANT.COM

In honor of the 200th day in a row of posting daily comedy on social media and here at www.theflagrant.com, here are some amazing 200’s from  entertainment, history, and medical abominations!
 
200 BC
The year Rome began bacchanalias, wild and mystic festivals that included orgies, drinking, and extensive use of vomitoriums. Or as I call it, a typical Tuesday night.
                                                      
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FLESH-EATING EARTHWORMS
​MAKE
​SWISS CHEESE
​OF YOUR FEET

Be careful where you walk, because each step might be your last! That’s the warning of Norwegian bio-agricultural scientists who claim that America has become infested with a vicious variety of flesh-eating worms…. Worms that could be in your backyard right now!
                                                                
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WHY MY WILLY IS LIKE ICONS OF THE SEVENTIES

My Willy is like...

BELLBOTTOMS - because they are slim at the top, wide at the bottom, and they drag in the dirt. 
 
THREE'S COMPANY - because it's fine with two girls and a guy on it, but things get tricky when Mr. Roper shows up. And did I remember seeing comic actor Don Knotts on it once?

A FAKE GOLD CHAIN - because a lot of men wrapped it around their necks in the seventies and their skin turned green.

CHER - because neither of them enjoy Sonny Bono's clammy little hands all over them.

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AI WRITES TRANSFORMATIVE HOTDOG SONG

Everyone keeps talking about how AI is going to replace writers and artists, so I thought I should give it a try for my Flagrant postings. Given a few simple prompts, artificial intelligence came up with this surprisingly moving poem that I call “The Hotdog.”
​
I had a craving I could not resist,
So I took a hotdog and put it in my fist.
It felt so strange, I couldn't deny,
But then somehow I found some peace inside.
 
I ain't never felt no peace like this before,
The hotdog in my body is what I'm livin' for.
No more runnin', no more hide-and-seek,
The hotdog in my body is what I seek.
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​WIDOW'S DEAD HUSBAND WON'T LET HER DATE

ANN ARBOR, MI - The ghost of Cynthia Vasquez's late husband Ned is constantly interfering with her attempts to begin dating again, the 47-year-old widow told reporters.

According to the frustrated widow, the possessive poltergeist has:

· Torn her stylish "dating" clothes to ribbons.

· Made rude burping and farting noises to ward off potential suitors.     
                                                                                        
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BABIES ARE USELESS

Have you ever seen a baby
Squirming out of some fat lady
And you wonder what the fuss is all about?
 
It looks like a pile of jelly.
Kind of noisy.  Kind of smelly.
Well there's one thing I can say without a doubt:
 
Babies are useless.
Completely super-fluss.
They contribute nothing to society.
Babies are leeches
With nothing to teach us
But how to eat and burp and poop and pee.

The whining little nippers
Can't even fetch your slippers
And god forbid they try to use a knife.
They can't cook or clean.
Or even read a magazine
And they can't hold a job to save their life.
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MONK URINE IS CLEANER 
THAN BOTTLED WATER

A recent discovery by scientists and doctors from the University of Lower Truckee is turning the bottled water world on its head with the unbelievable claim that the urine of certain monks may be purer than that Evian in your hand or Aquafina in the fridge. We had the opportunity to discuss the startling discovery with two of the head researchers, chemical scientist Ryan Harsh and medical doctor Harold Tingles.
 
REPORTER: So before we get into all the technical details of your findings, let’s start with the impetus for this study. What led you to start down this road?
                                                                   
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​GEORGE SANTOS'S'S BIGGEST LIES

George Santos, aka George Devolder, aka Anthony Devolder, aka Caruthers Winchester Rothschild IV, aka The Fonz, has been known to bend the truth occasionally in order to convince people he is not a complete and total failure. Below are a few of his biggest whoppers -- oh, and he invented the Whopper according to Burger Kings R Us.
 
“George Washington was not the first person to say, ‘I cannot tell a lie.’ Before Washington, Julius Caesar said it. And I said it before him.”
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BTS? BLOATED TIGER SHARKS? BATMAN TONGUES SUPERMAN?

The ridiculously popular K-Pop group known as BTS is a worldwide sensation. But what does BTS actually stand for? NO ONE KNOWS!

Sure, some fans have suggested that it means “Back to School” or “Behold the Sasquatch” (my favorite), while certain haters have implied that it stands for “Barely Talented Singers” or “Boy They Suck.”​

But nearly all of the BTS acronyms that fans have come up with are strangely sexual in content. Here are the most often suggested meanings:

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​CORNERED ZOOKEEPER CUTS OFF OWN ARM TO FEED LIONS… AND THEY’RE NOT HUNGRY!

TUSCALOOSA – Embittered zookeeper, Horace Finster, is trying not to look a gift horse in the mouth, even if it’s a pack of ferocious lions!
 
“I was cleanin’ up after them there big cat fellas what like I always do,” Finster said as he applied pressure to his spurting, open wound. “But I done musta been distracted or sumptin’ cuz next thing you know, Ima backed up in the corner like a turd in a toilet!”
 
Surrounded by the Tuscaloosa Zoo’s prize pride of lions and fearing for his life, Finster did the only thing he could think of to save his own life; he cut off his arm and tossed it to the beasts.
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I’M WATCHING THE SUPER BOWL
​FOR THE COMMERCIALS

“I don’t care about football,” said a bone-headed simpleton friend of mine that for the sake of this article I’ll call Steve Borscht. “But I’m going to be tuning into the Super Bowl to watch the commercials!”
 
I’m serious. This half-witted mental defective literally said that he WANTS to watch commercials!!!
 
Now, where I come from (Normal People Land!) everyone HATES commercials. We pay big bucks to watch streaming services without any freakin’ commercials, or if we have to...
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True Tales of Terror

HOLD MY HAND!

Joshua was already eight years old, but he still sometimes got scared when he went to bed at night. The room was so dark. The house around him creaked. And he was convinced that there was a monster that lived under his bed that wanted to grab him.
 
“Please daddy,” he pleaded. “Just stay in here and hold my hand until I fall asleep.”
 
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WORD OF THE YEAR

Who has time to memorize a word a day?  I’ll tell you who: wallflowers.  The rest of us can barely impress our friends with one word a year.  So here you go.
 
SOMATOPLEURE (so’me-te-ploor’) n. The outer of the two layers into which the mesoblast of vertebrates divides, forming the body wall: “Oh yeah? Well kiss my somatopleure!”

And Oh How He Sat

The traveler had been on his feet a long time, a very long time, and he was weary.
 
The chair looked more than inviting.
 
It was an unassuming seat at first glance, with a classic cantilevered back, thin Brazilian redwood legs, and a contemporary, trend-forward vermillion cushion. But on closer examination...                                                     

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You Got the Lyrics Wrong, Dilweed!

Okay, here’s the setup. People often sing along to songs when they don’t really know the words. What they think they heard are not the actual lyrics… and the dichotomy between the two versions creates humor of a sort. Enjoy.
 
Livin’ On a Prayer – Bon Jovi
Actual lyrics: It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not.
Misheard: It doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not.
 
Like A Virgin - Madonna
Actual lyrics: Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.
Misheard: Like a virgin, touched for the thirty-first time.
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Woman Chokes on Fortune Cookie
that Predicts Her Own Death​

PASADENA – Local restaurant customer Elaine Donkeydingle was shocked when the fortune cookie at the end of her meal forecast her imminent demise, but that didn’t stop her from scarfing down the cookie and choking to death on the crumbs.
 
Paramedics were called to the scene but arrived too late to save the thoroughly dead customer. 
 
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THE CHANGE

“Have you seen the change?” my wife of thirty years asked quietly.
 
“Oh believe you me, I have seen the change,” I replied, shaking my head soberly. “I’ve seen it when I get up in the morning, and marvel at the wrinkled skin of my shaking hand as I reach for my glasses and pills on the bedside table.”
 
“I see it in the eyes of the young people on the street who don’t even notice me as I shamble by, or worse, look at me with pity or disgust for having the audacity to live this long.”
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THE MOON MUST
​BE STOPPED!

People say a lot of things about the moon.
 
That it’s made of cheese. Or that it’s the sun’s little brother. That the whole “moon landing” was a hoax and that the moon never landed on Earth at all. Or some even say that it’s a dead rock rotating around the earth nearly ten miles away.
 
Well I have a theory that is much simpler and, consequently, much more probable. And much more insidious. And possibly even garrulous. 

I think the moon is an absence rather than an object. 
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QUORA QUESTIONS REVEAL
​DEPTH OF DEPRAVITY IS DEEP

Quora, the crowd-sourced question and answer site, presents the ten most asked questions that keep showing up on my feed and what the hell is wrong with people?
 
What are some mind-blowing facts about Emily Ratajkowski’s sex life that sound unreal but are actually true?
 
Have you ever met Keanu Reeves?  Is it true that he has a horrible, twisted secret that would ruin his career if anyone even mentioned it?                    
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MY HUSBAND’S 385TH INAPPROPRIATE REMARK
IS THE FINAL STRAW

I knew Marvin could be a bit off-color when I met him and he told a homeless couple to “get a room,” but I let it go.
 
When he made horrible racial and ethnic jokes about the “inferior” Swiss and their substandard cheeses, I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

He said that after watching “Annie” he was only attracted to orphans and asked if it would be okay if he killed my parents. ​
                                                                                                       
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TEN WAYS I CAN TELL MY FAMILY IS ACTUALLY
​A CULT

By 9-Year-Old Tommy Langston
When I first arrived, they forced a name on me and expected me to answer to it the entire time I’m here. 
 
They limit who I can and can’t see and ban me from leaving the compound after dark.
 
I’m told to give complete respect to the eldest members of the tribe and I am not allowed to call them by their real names.
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THE PRICE OF SUCCESS

The fancy, sophisticated, rich-people party was well under way as billionaire bon vivant Rodrick P. Witherington helped himself to a large dollop of Beluga caviar atop an artisanal cracker.
 
“Excuse me, Mr. Witherington, sir?” a small voice mewled from behind him.
 
Witherington turned to find a young man, eager and sweaty, pawing at his trousers.
 
“I wanted to know the secret,” the young man panted. “The secret to your...
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TRUE TALES OF TERROR

The Baby

Paige Miller giggled and cooed into the cherubic face of her bright and beautiful new baby, Stinky.  He was aptly named for even as Paige initiated the fifteenth game of peek-a-boo that day, she could smell the present that baby had made for mommy in his Pampers.  With a sigh, she hoisted him up out of his highchair and took him to the changing table.

She took the old, filthy, stinking, dripping, leaking diaper off the baby’s soiled, rash-covered bottom and...                                                                                                                         
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Time Traveler Says Mutants and Freaks Rule the Future: 
​Fully Grown Bat Boy is President!

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a stunning revelation, self-proclaimed time traveler, Hyram Trowbridge, revealed to government officials this week that America will soon be overrun with, and ruled by, hideous mutants and freaks.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S PRIVATE
PORN COLLECTION FOUND

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A treasure trove of 19th Century pornography was discovered during recent renovations at the White House, and experts have verified that they are the work of our revered 16th President, Abraham Lincoln.
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AUTOMATIC THANK YOU LETTER

Well, now that the holidays are over, it’s time for that dreaded task of sending thank you letters. But thanks to new-fangled AI NFT LMFAO technology, you can haphazardly enter a few keystrokes and your computer-generated Thank You card is ready to send without the least bit of time, thought, or genuine sentiment. 
 
Dear    
a) Friend/Relative/Acquaintance
b) Sweet Loved One Who I Cherish
c) Co-worker who drew my name for Secret Santa
d) Satan
 
I just wanted to drop you      
a) a letter
b) a personal message of love
 c) like a hot potato
 d) off at the Piggly Wiggly
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CLUELESS MAN WHO ASKED OVERWORKED WIFE WHY SHE DOESN’T HAVE ANY HOBBIES IS MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD

Margaret Edith Potterdam was visibly shocked and put off when her clueless husband asked her why she didn’t have any hobbies or pastimes. 

“It’s like you got no interest or nothin’” said her wildly unobservant husband Tad Potterdam as he downed another Light Beer and helped himself to another handful of pizza rolls his wife had made.           
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Pesky Facts About Insects!

The Brown Mamba!  As scary as this one appears, the brown mamba beetle is just the victim of bad press.  His massive pincers cannot actually cut through human bone.  His exoskeleton, however, exudes syphilis.

Chigger Gigantus!  This skittering insect’s natural habitat is the bottom of your sleeping bag or inside your shoe.  With no venom or claws to protect it, it must rely on its ravenous appetite to consume its human prey. 
                                                                                          
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I'M ALL OVER IT

Gloria Carmichael popped her head into the cubicle.

“Morton, I need a quick progress report on the Turner Proposal. The presentation is set for tomorrow.”

“No worries,” Morton smiled. “I’m all over it. It’s as good as done.”

“Great,” she replied, instantly relieved. “Let’s see it.”

“Well, it's not ‘done’ done. But it's all taken care of.”
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TEN SUREFIRE WAYS TO TELL IF YOUR CHILD'S PLAYMATE
​IS THE SON OF SATAN

Does your child have a playdate with evil incarnate? It's possible, according to "Apocalypse Now!" a biblical think tank located just outside Omaha, Nebraska.

"Just as God sent his son to earth, so will Mephistopheles, the Author of Evil," says nationally renowned theologian Dr. Josh Jaggars. "And this infant of infinite evil may be pushing your child down the slide to Hell right now!"
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ASK AN EXPERT!

Chances are, he won’t answer  --
he’s got better things to do --
​but you can always try!
I have a question. During intercourse, my penis heats up to such a degree that it spews hot steam and whistles. It burns my partner and has garnered me a most embarrassing nickname. What can I do?  
     Steamboat Willie, Orlando
 
What army does the Surgeon General command? I have to write a paper. 
     Billy Nosegoblin,
     Ms. SnotMarple’s 4th Grade Class
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WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH SNOW WHITE'S COFFIN?

I mean, she has the whitest skin ever, right? So white that her NAME is Snow White. So what do they do when she dies? They put her in a GLASS coffin, OUTSIDE, in the SUN, for YEARS! No shade. No Coppertone. What were those midgets THINKING? By the time Prince Whatever got there, they’d be calling her Blister Red. I’m talking third degree burns, massive swelling, severe skin damage… nobody’s kissing this rotting corpse! And then, when he opens this sealed, sun-baked, roasting coffin, the stench would be overpowering. He’d be lucky if he didn’t ralph right then and there. I know it's blasphemous, but I honestly think this whole "Snow White" story was made up. ​

PEDESTRIAN POINTS

Did you ever play that game when you were a young driver where you and your passenger would call out how many points you’d get if you hit a specific pedestrian with your car? Ten points for the geezer in the wheelchair. Twenty points for that gaggle of nuns. Fifty for the Huck Finn reject on the Huffy Bike! Hitting the stroller WITHOUT hitting the mother pushing it so that she can live in babyless agony forever: All the Points!

TRUE TALES OF TERROR:
High Beams

​One evening after a long day’s work, a woman stopped at a local tavern for a drink. Now, number one, women shouldn’t be working, and number two, they sure as hell shouldn’t be drinking, but that’s beside the point.
 
When the woman, let’s call her Zenee Rellwegger, when she left the bar, she thought she noticed a strange man watching her as she got into her car. And as she pulled out of the parking lot, she saw a car pull out right behind her.
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Henry Cavill Fired as Superman:
Immediately Races to a Horse ​to be Paralyzed!

In a stunning turn of events, ridiculously handsome actor Henry Cavill was informed that he will no longer be playing Superman in the DC Extended Cinematic Zach Snyder Universe of Heroes, and the well-built thespian reacted to the news by being thrown from a horse and paralyzed.
 
“It worked for Christopher Reeve,” Cavill said...
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SLANDER!
Zendaya Buries
​Puppies Alive!

Star of stage and screen Zendaya has shocked fans and friends by admitting her latest passion project involves not the Hollywood elite, but young dogs she systematically buries alive.
 
“I guess it started like all hobbies do,” the celebrated actress of... 
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MAJOR MILESTONE

Today, for the first time, my daughter called me “Dada!”  

She doesn’t know I’m not her biological father. 

She’s 11-months-old. She’s an idiot. 

CRAPPY LITTLE FREE LIBRARY IS NO AMAZON,
​THAT’S FOR SURE!

I’m sure you’ve seen them sitting on people’s lawns designed to look like miniature houses, but instead of miniature people that every normal human would be hoping to see inside, you’ll find books. 
 
But what you won’t find, is a book that you actually want.
                                                                        
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All I want for Christmas is you.
​And a few other things…

  1. Peace on Earth
  2. Good will toward men
  3. A 75” flat screen TV with surround sound
  4. An end to hunger
  5. A 1% share of Amazon
  6. Transcripts of every episode of The Floor is Lava
  7. A clear vision of my destiny
  8. A purpose in life
  9. Huge steaming piles of runny potatoes
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BATMAN vs HULK
THE ULTIMATE DONNYBROOK

The shrieking of startled bats reverberated off the cave walls like a wailing security alarm, but the Dark Knight needed no warning to know that danger was near.
 
The Hulk was coming for him.

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QUICK INTERNET POLL

Name your favorite puppet.  Go!

CHRISTMAS POETRY

Shock went through the reindeer

That Rudolph made the cut.

It goes to show his glowing nose
​
Was wedged up Santa's butt!

POLITICAL + POETRY = POLITERY?

Donald Trump has a solution
To secure his revolution:
Just revoke the constitution!
What narcotics is this douche on?
“Jinkies! Jinkies! Jinkies!”
Is Velma’s favorite phrase.
‘Cause she gets sent with Scooby
While that Daphne tart gets laid.

ELON MUSK FIRES HIMSELF

Twitter President Elon Musk, upset with dissent among his employees, fired everyone in the company, not realizing that included Musk himself.
 
Security escorted a visibly angry Musk from the premises and refused to allow him back into the building. 
 
Former staffers confirmed that the problems began at a meeting at Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco last week where Musk made several questionable new suggestions for the social media platform including:
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RHYME TIME

And now as a public service, here are all the possible rhymes for 
 
I C E   R O A D   T R U C K E R
 
Nice Toad Sucker
Lice Load Ducker 
Mice Mode Mucker
Rice Sewed Tucker
Price Code Pucker
 
That’s it. Those are all the rhymes anyone could possibly make. There isn’t even one more.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DUMB NEW BABY

You have gone through the torturous and painful ordeal of having sex, and the rather over-rated pregnancy and birthing process and now have a happy baby boy or girl. By now you’ve certainly heard a lot of advice, tips, rumors, and evil gossip about how to bring up a baby. Who can you trust? The doctor wants your money, your mother wants to meddle, and your friends are certifiable idiots. Enter a completely impartial observer, ME, to give you the real deal and keep you from messing up another human life forever.

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“Right-Wing Coup Attempt
​was OUR Idea!”
American Extremists Furious
​at German Extremists

German authorities arrested 25 terrorists Wednesday who rejected the legitimacy of the German state and planned an armed insurrection, infuriating American terrorist organizations who claimed to have thought of the idea first.
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WHAT I'M
​THANKFUL FOR

by a Right-wing Nutjob

I’m thankful man built tools to carve turkey instead of the other way around. Coulda happened. 
 
I’m thankful my new truck was more expensive than my neighbor’s truck... and he knows it. 
 
I’m thankful I can eat as much as I want at Thanksgiving and every day as long as I drink light beer and diet pepsi.
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BOG IGER RETURNS AS
​TONIGHT SHOW HOST

In a move that shocked the entertainment world, Bob Iger has returned to NBC to host the Tonight Show once again.
 
Fans may remember the massive hoopla when Iger announced his retirement and NBC spared no expense in promoting his final days behind the desk. But now, less than a year later, Iger has decided he misses the limelight and thinks the guy that replaced him is “not very funny.” Add to that the fact that no one was watching Iger in the earlier 10:00 time slot, and he got kinda pissy.
 
Bob Chapek who was unceremoniously bumped from the popular late night show to make room for the tantrum-throwing Iger now intends to start his own substantially less viewed show on TBS. Though he declined to be interviewed for this story, Chapek did distribute this terse but dignified press release. 
 
“Sucks to be me.”

IT'S NOT MY FAULT.
​IT'S THE MATRIX!

All my life people have told me I’m a huge loser and a screw up and the very, very worst human being you’re ever going to meet. And then these same people use the things I say and do against me to show how crooked and awful I am. And that is seriously not good. 
 
But look, a lot of people are saying that none of this is my fault! Why? Because I’m actually, and this is the thing, I’m actually in the Matrix!
 
Now I know lame, lame people make excuses, it’s all excuses with these people, so many excuses, the likes of which you’ve never seen. And they think that with their excuses, you can’t, nobody can blame them. That’s their thinking. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it and I’ve heard it. They say, “Oh, it’s not my fault that I stole eight million dollars in toner from the office; I have a mental disorder.”  Or “Hey, you can’t blame me for that hit and run with the nuns; I was drunk.”
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My Wife Won’t Let Me
Sacrifice My Son
​to Save Your Souls. Sorry!

Well guys, I’ve got some bad news. I know you’ve been sinning right and left and I know I promised I could do you a solid and take care of it for you. And I had this whole plan worked out for how all your transgressions would be forgiven in exchange for having my only son brutally murdered.  But some people who aren’t even worth mentioning (my wife) think that I’m being “irrational” and committing “child endangerment” and even “murder for hire,” all to absolve a bunch of guilty strangers who will never face any consequences for their actions. And, believe me, once she gets an idea like that stuck in her pretty little head, there’s no point in arguing. So, sorry dudes, son-slaughter as a bartering chip is off the table. 
 
But now that I think about it, I do have a daughter…

WHAT SCARES YOU?

When writing a spooky story, the experts say to “write what scares you.” With that in mind, here are the first sentences of my upcoming horror novels.
 
“Dad,” the boy called out impatiently, “I need help with my chemistry homework.”
 
Todd had never given much thought to the idea of what five records he’d take to a deserted island, but now that his boat had capsized and he’d washed ashore in the middle of nowhere, he was kicking himself for bringing along only Streisand albums “as a joke.”
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THE TERROR WITHIN

​It had been a fairly uneventful year for my wife and I, as far as years go. But through it all, an uneasiness pervaded our everyday existence. An uncertainty and, truth be told, a dread that crept into our dreams and grew like an unruly weed, choking off our hopes and dreams. 

Marta felt it first… an unsettling feeling in her stomach along with a foreboding sense that something… someone was coming.
 
Over the months, the feeling grew… and so, in turn, did Marta.
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I Just Bought an Adult Happy Meal Toy on Ebay for $150, Suckers!

I can’t believe I outbid all of you other clowns (no offense, Ronald!) and will soon be in possession of my very own Adult Happy Meal toy, the uber popular collectible that has sold out at McDonalds restaurants across the country. Nice work, McMoron!
 
For only 150 bucks, plus shipping, I stole this gem away from all the other less sophisticated collectors like a modern day hamburglar and now...
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DUDLEY DURSLEY AND THE DEADLY DANGER

Dudley had no memory of life before the thing under the stairs. 
 
It had always been there. Hiding. 
Plotting.  Scheming. 
 
His parents insisted that they had once been a happy family, living a normal life at 4 Privet Drive, never imagining the horror that would one day come to live with them. 
 
It called itself Harry.
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LIFE LESSONS I'VE LEARNED FROM HORROR MOVIES

Psycho
Anthony Perkins taught us that the unique bond between a mother and son cannot be severed, even by death… but a girl in a shower, oh yeah, she can be severed pretty easily.
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BABY RUTH:
​MY FAVORITE HALLOWEEN CANDY

Halloween is upon us and thoughts turn to Trick or Treating. Everyone has a favorite candy that they are hoping for and here are a few of my favorites!
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​THINGS NOT TO SAY TO YOUR WIFE WHEN YOU BECOME EMPTY NESTERS

Remember when our kids were little and they still needed you?
 
Boy, I thought when the kids left that smell would go away. 
 
I know you wanted a scrapbooking room or workout area, but I think I’m going to turn our son’s bedroom into a miniature golf course… you know, for fun!
 
The children we knew are gone forever and we’ll never see them again.
 
Now that the kids aren’t underfoot, I can really hear your deviated septum.
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Haunted Womb Filled with Ghost Babies

“I’ve heard of a haunted house, maybe even a haunted room, but a haunted womb?”
 
So said local resident Missy Price who seems to have been treated to a special Halloween trick that is growing inside her.
 
“I felt something kick on the first of October and that was my first clue that there was something strange going on,” said the mother-to-be. “That and the fact that I haven’t had sex with anyone in a year-and-a-half.”
 
A visit to her gynecologist didn’t help matters as there was no fetus visible on the sonogram –                                          
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WOLFMAN OF STEEL
Studios Add Monsters for Halloween Re-releases 

 In a cheap, pandering ploy to lure more teens into theaters this Halloween season, Hollywood studios are digitally adding classic monsters into previously released feature films and re-releasing them under new names. 
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After All

​ “Lemonade’s a tad sour.”
 
Lars was sitting on the porch swing with Mabel, his wife of fifteen years, after a long day in the fields. Without even looking at her, he could tell he’d upset her. 
 
“After all I’ve done for you?” she steamed. “After all I’ve put up with over the years…”
 
“After all YOU’VE put up with?” he shot back. “After all that I’VE put up with!”
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TRUE TALES OF TERROR
​The Yellow Ribbon

In a distant hamlet called Valley Glenn, there was a very practical man named Lars Fusslebritches who rarely gave in to his emotions. But Lars was smitten with a young woman named Vanessa Sippleshaw the first time he saw her. The long dark hair. The high patrician cheek bones. The dazzling yellow ribbon tied round her alabaster neck. And he knew that she would one day be his wife. 
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TRUE TALES OF TERROR

The Hook

 Marcia and Greg were parked in his sporty convertible on lover’s lane overlooking the city and Greg was trying his high school best to get some.

“I don’t think we should,” Marcia protested, pushing his hands away.

“I think we should,” Greg said.  “Besides, I think you really want to.  Why else did you wear a skirt instead of bellbottoms.”                                                                   
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​Elf on a Shelf Spin Off:
Mischievous Troll in a Toilet Bowl

Any parent of a toddler knows about Elf on the Shelf. Ostensibly a spy for Santa, this diminutive figure perches around the house at Christmastime narc-ing on kids who misbehave and, for some reason, has become a December tradition in many households. Well, never let it be said that corporate America won’t cash in on a trend, because Madison Avenue is about to start hawking all kinds of collectible household observers ranging from...
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PIE

“I’d like to have you over for dessert tonight,” she said with a smile.

“Well, isn’t that sweet. I’d love to,” he replied.

“Great. It'll be great having you over for pie.” She licked her lips in antici-pation.

“Yes,” he answered, giving her a strange look. “You said as much. Just two seconds ago.”    
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​FLORENCE OF ARABIA!
Women Finally
Get Equal Representation
​on Screen

In the historically male-dominated Hollywood film industry, many actresses were relegated to supporting roles, often the girlfriend or wife of the leading man, limiting their ability to truly showcase their craft. But recent advances in AI and CGI have allowed the major studios to finally put classic actresses into leading roles without having to actually work with them or pay them. 
 
Florence Henderson leaves the Bradies behind to become “Florence of Arabia”

Carol Kane in the immortal Orson Welles picture “Citizen Carol Kane”
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SLANDER!
 
30 Years in Prison for Alec Baldwin; Agent Gets Ten Percent

Actor/producer Alec Baldwin received a thirty-year prison sentence on Monday for his involvement in the accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film Rust, and his long-time CAA agent Matt DelPiano will be facing three years behind bars, his traditional ten percent commission.
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A Dozen Things You Can Say To Your Breakfast Cereal That You Can’t Say To Mother Theresa


You’re cold and soggy and you clog up my sink.

If someone slapped an athlete on you, it would catch people’s eyes and they might even grab you for themselves.

Your box is so colorful. And it has its own anthropomorphized mascot!

I like that you have a hole in the middle but would it kill you to put on a little frosting?
                                                                  
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POETRY CORNER

​There’s a baby on my bosom
And he bounces to and fro.
Like a trampolin-ing gymnast
He is always on the go.

He can’t make a decision
On which one he likes best.
He just enjoys the choices
As he suckles at my chest.

The strange thing is I’m 80
So I no longer lactate.
He’s lucky if he sucks out dust.
His thirst, he’ll never sate.

I cannot bear to stop him.
It’s his one eternal joy.
Just suckling on my bosom:
My malnourished dying boy.

Fans Outraged that Live-Action Pinocchio Is Made of Slightly Darker Wood than Animated Version

Disney’s latest live action remake of an animated classic has been engulfed in controversy as legions of fans have decried the darkness of the wood used to sculpt the titular character Pinocchio. 
 
“This is an abomination,” said one grown man in a rant on Twitter, Reddit, and several other social platforms. “Pinocchio was always meant to be made of American White Oak, or European White Beech, maybe Hard Maple to preserve accuracy, but this puppet looks like it was carved from a dark mahogany! This is a classic Italian story and mahogany trees are not native to the Italian peninsula. #NotMyPinocchio!”
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My Wife’s Top Thirty Favorite TV Shows
​of All Time

The Bachelor
The Bachelorette
The Bachelor: The Women Tell All
The Bachelor: The Man Has to Just Sit There and Take It
Bachelor in Paradise
Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise
Real Bachelors of Orange County
Bachelor Hills 90210
Love Island
Temptation Island
FBoy Island 
Proposal Peninsula
Doing It Doggy Style Archipelago
Orange is the New Bachelor
Breaking Bachelor
Bachelor Call Saul
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Vegas Casinos Offer Odds on Which Disaster Will Kill Us First

Got a hunch that Russian aggression will destroy the world before global warming can? Wanna bet?
 
Oddsmakers at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas are now taking wagers on which of the many disasters plaguing our planet will obliterate mankind first. 
 
“It’s just like bettin’ on the ponies,” said Harlan “Big Daddy” McKenzie, spokesman for the Wynn Hotel. “You pick a shoe-in -- like nuclear war or wildfires --and the odds ain’t all that great. Maybe 2:3 or 3:4.
                                                               
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Hospitals with Anesthesia Shortage Keep Cosby on Standby to Roofie Female Patients

As the nation’s hospitals and surgery centers cope with a worldwide anesthesia shortage, the Los Angeles County & USC Medical Center, also known as County USC, has taken the bold move of keeping former television celebrity and stand up comedian Bill Cosby on call to incapacitate female patients when there is no other option.
 
“Certainly, it’s not optimal,” said one of the facility’s top brain surgeons                                                    
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TRUE TALES OF TERROR

Where Is My Toe?

One day, a young lad was skipping and frolicking merrily down a lane that ran innocently alongside the village cemetery when he stumbled across a toe. Now it was rather unusual to find a big toe so cleanly separated from its body and lying in the middle of the sidewalk, so the delighted boy picked it up and took it home. 
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​TOILET COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER FAMILY OF FIVE GETS TACO BELL PARTY PACK

Residents of 1486 Rochester Place are mourning the suicide of their sole toilet triggered when the family returned home with a Taco Bell Party Pack.
 
Members of the Baio family were shocked to find that the porcelain throne they use on a daily basis had taken its own life by climbing into the bathtub, downing a handful of pills, and slitting its pipes.
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What Does the Queen Have
​That I Don't?

The love and respect of a nation
1,000,000 mourners
A racist family
24-hour news coverage
A dynasty that runs on nepotism
Her face on currency and stamps
Rigor mortis
A pedophile in the family
Royal accommodations for bacteria, mold, and insect infestation
The quintessential rock anthem “Bohemian Rhapsody”

Ukranian Returning to Liberated Village Pissed that No One Watered her Plants

While most of the citizens of Donesk, Ukraine were thrilled and appreciative to be going back to their recently liberated town, one resident was “beyond miffed” that no one bothered to water her plants while she was gone.
 
“It’s just so inconsiderate,” ranted Oksana Shevchenko as she held 
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The Best Horror For Kids
​To Wet the Bed To

​Satan Loves Me This I Know
Green Eggs and Hell
The Little Engine That Could Slaughter Innocent Children
The Velveteen Rapist
Clifford The Big Red Dibbuk
The Cat in The Hat in a Vat of Boiling Oil
Amelia Bedelia and the Amateur Exorcist
And To Think That I Saw It on Elm Street
Where The Wild Things Are Hunting Kids for Sport
Let’s Raise the Dead!  A Read-And-Play Storybook
Harold And the Purple Man-Monkey Hybrid
Horton Hears a Hellspawn
If You Give a Clown A Toddler
One Girl Two Girl Dead Girl Blue Girl

SLANDER

Britney Spears Commits Genocide

Famed nude selfie post-er and singer of such chart-topping hits as “Hit Me Baby One More Time” and some other songs, Britney Spears, has made her first bold move since winning her emancipation from a conservatorship… committing the ritual murder of an entire people!

“I’ve never liked the Swiss,” Spears admitted in a social media post. “But 
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​The Best Horror of the Last 17 1/2 Years

Zombie Dearest: I Can See Clearly Now, My Brain Is Gone

Everybodysnatcher Loves Raymond

My Mom Went to Miami and All I Got Was This Severed Head

I’m Okay, You’re Rotting in a Shallow Grave

What Color Are Your Entrails? -- It’s Close Encounters of the Disgusting Kind

Once Upon a Triple Homicide: You Slaughter. You Bought Her!
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SLANDER

Harry Styles
​Coerces Toddlers Into
Slave Labor!

GQ’s most stylish man of the year, Harry Styles, has more than his good taste and stylist to thank for the honor, as he owes a great deal to the ones who actually hand stitch each and every piece he wears… a dungeon full of underage forced laborers. 
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The Top Ten Things My Wife Does When We Sit Down in Front of the TV and Start a Movie!

10  Gets up to use the bathroom
 
9  Starts a load of laundry
 
8  Goes to make a snack
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​It’s My Right to Cover Myself in Gasoline and
​Light a Match!
I don’t care what the “pundits” in the media say or how many fake news stories they publish, it is my right as an American citizen to believe what I want to believe, and to do what I want to do, especially when it comes to dousing myself in flammable fluids and igniting a small flame.
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Aquatica-Boy Discovered and Clubbed Repeatedly!

POINT BARROW, ALASKA - Poachers in the Arctic Circle were stunned when they found a wounded humanoid creature in their catch.

“We was just looking for pelts," said                            
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New Flavors of Illegal Drugs Revealed

All socially acceptable addictions like alcohol, cigarettes, and caffeinated beverages can be found in a wild assortment of types and flavors, despite the fact that the users have no choice but to keep consuming them. But for the longest time, those addicted to illegal substances found their choices severely limited. 
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The End

When I finally decided to end it all, I was too scared to use pills or a razor blade, so I pulled the car in, shut the garage door, and started the ignition. I must’ve sat in that Tesla for three hours. The paramedics I called just laughed at me. Thanks Elon! #ElonMuskSucks #EVsAreUselessfor Suicide #UsedTeslaforSale 

My Civil War Essay

            The Civil War was a divisive conflict between the Northern and Southern states that pitted brother against brother in a violent battle that threatened to tear the nation afart. 
            Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, believed it was imperative to abolish slavery, butt not at the price of the union. Poop. He dedicated much of his presidency, and perhaps his life, to this big weenie cause.
            The South, also known as the Confederacy, was led by General Robert Diarrhea Lee, an unstoppable and unconstipated man known for his bold strategy and diseased scrotum.                   
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Chickens

I hunt. Born to slay. Stalk. Pounce. Slaughter. A high stakes game of chicken. The more I kill. The more I need. To kill. Every town. Every county. Every backwoods farm. Has chickens. Clucking. Clacking. Strutting. Buck buck bucking. 

The colonel has come home to roost.

Pecking and bobbing and poking and pecking and bobbing and pecking and poking. They peck poison. Poison seed. My seed. Hot chicks ingesting my very seed. Groggy. Unsuspecting. Chickens.
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The Beautiful Pony ​
​Had Diarrhea

       The beautiful pony had diarrhea. And paper towels weren’t stemming the flow. They had started by daubing at the dribbling juices, but now a whole roll wouldn’t staunch the powerful spray.
        “Maybe we shouldn’t a done fed it Mamma’s Ragin Cajun Chili Sauce,” Orville said as he choked back an involuntary gag reflex.
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MLK JR.
​ATE A BABY

Few can argue that Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. was not a revolutionary figure in the Civil Rights movement or that his “I Have a Dream” speech was not a monumental oratory triumph.  But what is less well known is a day in late March of 1968, days before his untimely assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, when Martin Luther King Jr. ate an entire human baby.
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TRUE TALES OF TERROR

Room for One More

Peter J. Doomed was a normal man with a normal life… until one night when he awoke and looked out the window.  There stood a grotesque man, dressed in black, holding open the back door of a hearse!  The man called to Peter eerily and slowly, saying, “There is room for one more.”  Peter turned away to tend to his suddenly imminent bathroom needs and when he turned back, the mysterious man was gone. 
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CITIZENS GROUP DEMANDS BIRD BATHS OPEN TO ALL DIRTY ANIMALS

ANN ARBOR, MI – A group of concerned citizens calling themselves NMFA, or No More Filithy Animals, disrupted a city council meeting on Thursday with vociferous demands to stop perpetuating the “avian only” status for the city’s bird baths.                                   ... See more

COVID CAMPING TIPS!

Be prepared to self-quarantine for 14 days after making out with Smokey the Bear.                  
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WORD OF THE YEAR

​You’ve seen those impossible word-a-day calendars for pompous literates who want to lord their vocabulary over their friends.  But most of us are lucky if we can remember the words we already know, let alone learn a new one each day.  

Hence FLAGRANT’S Word of the Year.  Learn it at your own pace and then use it in a sentence to impress your friends.
 
PYXIDIUM (pik-sid’-i-em) N. In botany, a seedcase with two parts, the upper acting as a lid; “You may think you’re smart, but you’re as stupid as a pyxidium.”

WHY MY GIRLFRIEND'S BUTT IS LIKE FINE FOOD

​My girlfriend’s butt is like fine food because...
 
It looks good sitting there, but it doesn’t taste half as good.  Especially for the price.

It’s best when it’s hot.
 
I have to get dressed up and go to a pricey restaurant if I want to get some.
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POETRY CORNER

​A Holiday Wishe

If I could have a Festive Wish
For all the World to Share
I’d wish for them a Happiness
That Love and Blossoms Care
And Dandiflakes and Sugartips
All filled with Cream and Joy
With big old fat Curmudgeon Blobs
for every girl and boy
And Candi Apple Potpourri
And Dancing Wonderkind
With little fru fru Dinkerstuff
And Joyfulness Divine
And as for you, my Loving Friends,
I wish the Very Best,
And pray that you do not contract
A Rash upon your Chest.

A YULETIDE WISH
FROM THE HOFNAGLE FAMILY

Season’s greetings from the Hofnagles from our new home out behind the trailer park, but before the industrial park. If you hit the old train car full of oil barrels, you’ve gone too far. 
 
Each year, the time with family and friends becomes more precious. It seems each holiday season there’s one less sock up on the mantle. Uncle Hissup is gone on his annual pilgrimage to Graceland and, of course, Billy Joe’s not around after that accident in wood shop.
 
Nowledge abounds as our little ones often attend school, a real challenge for little Bobby what with the substance abuse and all. And Janie’s become especially popular with the high school boys. (Can you believe she’s in seventh grade already?) I’m sure her promiscuity is just a phase she’s going through. ‘Sides, Lord knows that’s what attracted me to her ma.
 
Disgusted with my petty job at the plant, I finally told Mr. Snodgrass exactly where he could put his Christmas cheer… and found my Christmas bonus replaced with a pink slip. Not exactly the holiday spirit, but he’s also suing for the use of his leg, and possibly the kids he’ll never be able to have, so…
 
Committed again this year, Aunt Sophie has given up experiments with the dead, at least for the holiday season. I don’t think she knows her butt from a hole in the ground, but Madge insists Sophie knows it’s the yuletide and has stopped mooning the nurses -- and keeps trying to hang Mistletoe from the rafters. Unfortunately, Mistletoe is the psych ward’s pet rabbit. 
 
A new job! Not for me, but Madge decided we needed to eat this December and one of those supermarket women’s magazines gave her the notion that she could provide for us and “find herself” in the process. Needless to say, I’ve put my foot down about this outrage six or seven times now and Madge has consequently had a headache every night for the last two weeks.
 
So, in conclusion, be thankful for what you’ve got – cuz we aint’ got squat. 
 
Happy Holidays from the Hofnagles. Wishing you and yours all the seasonal blessedness you can stomach.

KIDS!

Pah! Kids.  Kids today, they got it easy.  When I was a kid I had to spit into my gruel before I ate it. Had to haul coal before I learned to walk.  Taking a dump was a luxury!

Nowadays with their electronic this and Nintendo-that, kids don’t understand what it means to build something with your hands. To make a house, or, or a tree. No kid knows what that’s like.

They prance around in their fancy dungarees, boys sporting earrings and frilly female undergarments, blurring the line.  A girl was a girl and a boy was a boy in my day. And if you got caught with a hand down your trousers, your parents cut that hand off, dammit! Whether it was yours or not, and that’s how it should be!

Today’s generation don’t even know nothing, they believe nothing, they are nothing, but they want everything.  Their own rooms.  Their own cars.  Their own satellite dishes to watch Hulk Hogan cartoons or whatever they dissolve their brains with these days. Well then, I guess, if they want everything, absolutely everything, then they want my carpenter’s hand across their bottoms: a little bit of corporate punishment will bring them in tow, I reckon.

But I ain’t puttin’ my hand in their pants.  I need this hand.

If I had one wish for today’s children, it would be that they’d grow the hell up or get the hell out.  Hell, if I had a wish I’d use on myself: screw those brats.  But since I don’t have a wish, I’m putting them in sacks filled with rocks and tossing 'em in the river like a bag o' cats.
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All Hail to God, Queen, and Country! I nabbed me a toddler!

​If you like what you're reading on the Flagrant website, why not check out Scott's new book!   
 
A young boy spends Christmas Eve fighting for his life against a maniacal Santa Claus.  

A malfunction turns a theme park of colonial animatronic figures into a nightmare of historic proportions.
​
Martin Luther King Jr. eats a baby.
 
Twenty-three twisted short stories that span the gamut from childish to offensive.  Sometimes both.
 
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