Headlines We'd Like to See

Columnist Adams responds to Annan, Bush questions; World peace enacted.
End to poverty scheduled for Thursday

VIA Rail to operate TGV from Windsor to Quebec
Long Sault to get central station

wolfstu added to Stibbons mission
Scientist to pilot vessel, landing craft

Liv Tyler dating SDMB poster known as "emekthian"
“We spend most of our time having wild, passionate sex” says beautiful actress

Gay marriage legalized!
President Bush divorces wife, marries Colin Powell

U.S. Treasury announces $120 Trillion budget surplus
Each American citizen will recieve a check for $400,000

Johnny Depp & Brad Pitt Caught in Love Nest of SDMB UberGal with the Initials SU. " All she wants are hot oil massages and for us to speak in accents." said Pitt with a pretty little pout.

Warren Zevon announces concert tour. " My death was all a publicity stunt."

**" I’m a skank." ** By Christina Aguilerra.

Woman tries to pass off one million dollar bill at Walmart. oh wait

MTV EXECS ADMIT TO PRODUCING CRAP. " We were interesting once, but well, it just went down the crapper." Anonymous insider reported yesterday.

"Vatican III" concludes in Rome.
Stunning reversals on homosexuality, birth-control, clergy celebacy issues.

Failing that…

Holy Land Devistated by Asteroid Strikes
90% loss of life between Crete, Riyadh. Tidal waves swamp Rome.

Or even…

Vatican sacked by Centaurs, Cyclops.
Pope discovered cavorting with Satyrs.
Attack eerily mirrors Griffin strike in Mecca.

MIT announces perfection of dead-ressurection technology!
Lennon, Einstein, Twain endorce technology at press conferance.

New Tesla, Inc. claims 75% market share of U.S. automotive market.
Celebrations tonight at emission-free engine manufacturer’s headquarters.
In other news, Saudi Arabia is redoubling it’s pledge for debt relief from the G9 powers…

Apple Computer finalizes purchaise of beleagured Microsoft.
“I’m the god, I’M THE GOD!” says C.E.O. Jobs.

French agents captured at Indonesian chemical warfare lab after Jakarta gas attack.
Rioting in Paris, Nice. French President resigns in disgrace.

Hear, hear!
:: claps :: :slight_smile:

Funding for Peacekeepers triples
New equipment on way; troops overjoyed
Canada to help rebuild Haiti, Uzbekistan, Miami, Aceh, Scarborough

Air taxis on way
Prototype system to serve Southern Ontario by 2007
Inventor Moller and Premier meet

Jobs boom in creative industries
“People want to be entertained–and have their minds expanded”
‘World designers’ in demand

Recreational marijuana legalized, to be sold by LCBO
Revenue gains expected; anti-addiction funding increased; police “relieved”

Group marriage to be legalized
Legal team studying implications; PM McLaughlin “in favour”

Toronto goes open-source
City government to use open file formats in wake of leasing scandal
“No more will our data be held hostage”

**Tobacco Outlawed World Wide **
“Sheeet. Zhat means we ahr going to ghet fat like those Americans.” said the entire country of France. " Sacre Blow."

U.S. Enacts National Healthcare

MTV, VH-1 Return to Showing Videos
Execs apologize for all the crap shows. “We don’t know what we were thinking!”

Bush announces new campaign promises, including better grammar

CIA reports that Bin Laden ‘borrowed’ all the Iraqi WMDs
White House issues statement that ‘wherever they are, don’t worry, we’ll invade it’

Diabetes cured!
Pill makes glucose levels “both hunky and dory.”

Cleveland couple wins $47M lotto
“What the hell are we gonna do with all of this,” asks bemused wife.

MST3K Back on the Air
Funding supplied by wealthy Clevelander.

Public Libraries Have More $ Than Needed
Monies donated by wealthy Cleveland couple.

Wm. Shatner Entertains at House Party
“We’re Trekkies,” say wealthy Cleveland couple.

Patty

Flying cars perfected

Fusion power perfected
Every oil company shifts production for plastics, petrochemicals

Synthetic Fossil Fuels technology perfected
“Cool, I can build airfoils now!” says excited turn-based strategy game player
All oil companies go out of business

Futurama Uncancled!
“What the hell were we thinking?” says Fox executive

Saimiar becomes official language of the USA
fësauthî çifálodhingo, z’anáwrakto

bold is done like so:

(Substitute this symbol [ or this symbol ] for these as used in the following example.)

Not bold. (B)Bold.(/B) Not bold again.

Now copy the above phrase exactly as shown EXCEPT
replace this thingy (
with this other thingy [
Now, do the same thing by replacing this thingy )
with this thingy]

Now does it become clear? Just in case, I’ll try it a different way. Eventually I’m sure you’ll catch on.

There really needs to be a “don’t parse emphasis” box to click so these explanations don’t get confoosed. Spogga, Ya almost had it right before, but you need to ditch all the extra quotation marks – [ b ] (without the spaces between the brackets and the b) starts the bold command, and [ /b ] ends bold (also without the spaces between the brackets and the /b).

–SSgtBaloo

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
– Mark Twain

Ain’t it the truth!

SSgtBaloo Learns How To Tell When He’s Reached The End of the Thread!
News at Eleven…

(I’d say oops, but I have a limited supply and might need it later.)

–SSgtBaloo

Democratic National Party Admits Kerry Sucks: He’s the best we can do?

** 42 and Ventura in a Catch Match.**

Pentagon announces a series of bake sales to fund arms purchases

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Schools across the country fully funded; Teachers’ wages increased to corporate levels

RED SOX LOSE SERIES
Still Came Very Close
“Maybe Next Year, Or The Year
After That, Honest” Says Francona

Somehow the Red Sox are even immune to this thread. Maybe this year, though… maybe…

Dubya reveals: "just kidding about WMD, we did it for the oil"

Ashcroft admits: "terrorism a pretext, curtailing civil liberties gives me a woodie"

FBI Director admits Bureau complicity in JFK assassination conspiracy

NO MORE OIL! World’s Last Oil Well Goes Dry
Global Warming Likely to Stop, Solar Power Now Looks Feasible

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O. J. Caught Red-handed–Again!
Former Dream Team Refuses to Touch This One