I think we've leaped into a bit of good news

February 29, 2004 12:29 PM

Bush takes Ecstacy and attends rave"He was jumping around, blowing a whistle, and kept asking me if I had any chewy," says Alison, 19, who danced with the President and his team of advisors at an unnamed club until 4am.
posted by jackspace (17 comments total)

Fake news is funny.
posted by ColdChef at 12:32 PM on February 29, 2004

Sorry. That was really snarky of me. Of course, what I meant to say was: the Google logo is not quite in the right font.
posted by ColdChef at 12:38 PM on February 29, 2004

cute! Black Forest to be made of chocolate by 2030
posted by amberglow at 12:39 PM on February 29, 2004

Funny, but the Onion still does it better.
And they ripped off the Bush/XTC gag from that old Comedy Central show "That's my Bush!".
posted by Espoo2 at 1:23 PM on February 29, 2004

Rosie weds longtime girlfriend, slams Bush

who needs *fake* news? :-)
posted by quonsar at 1:31 PM on February 29, 2004

Less like a rocket, more like a balloon!
posted by jbrjake at 2:30 PM on February 29, 2004

>Drugs non-existent.

>Marijuana to be legalised worldwide

So which one is it?
posted by skallas at 3:35 PM on February 29, 2004

marijuana isnt a drug.

its a plant.

a magical one that makes you happy.

drugs are what doctors sell you.
posted by tsarfan at 4:35 PM on February 29, 2004

> So which one is it?

Both, just as it should be. All perfectly legal, nobody wants any. Seems like you could have parsed that one.
posted by jfuller at 5:43 PM on February 29, 2004

Bush takes XTC, goes to rave ....

At last the dream venue for a shooting spree...
posted by jonmc at 6:23 PM on February 29, 2004

This was really funny when it was an episode of "That's My Bush", too.

Which it was, a long, long time ago.
posted by qDot at 6:31 PM on February 29, 2004

You can make your own funny headlines too. Take one from A, one from B.

A
-----
The Pope
Alan Greenspan
Madeleine Albright
William Rehnquist
Hillary Clinton
Marlon Brando

B
-----
Goes bungee jumping
Slam dunks a basketball
Goes line-dancing
Surfs a gnarly wave
Does a keg stand
Eats a block of cheese like an apple

There you go. Literally dozens of possibilities for future internet fake news humor.
posted by Hildago at 6:58 PM on February 29, 2004

Prescription drugs, inkjet toner cartridges, and hot XXX sex with Czech teens to be given away free in an attempt to stem the flow of spam.

Whoohoo!
posted by Foosnark at 9:10 AM on March 1, 2004

I liked it. I'm actually so famished for good news that I read it all, ravenously, like a starving man eating a rubber chicken.
posted by squirrel at 9:57 AM on March 1, 2004

XTC is confusing, it sounds like the old 80s band. I thought everyone'd picked up the britishism by now. eg: Oy! mates! wanna bosh a load of e?
posted by DenOfSizer at 10:39 AM on March 1, 2004

"M25 to be turned into flower garden" dates back to at least late 2001. (there's a self-post on Google Groups with defunct link to filepile GIF).

Not sure if it was McCandless' original gag.
posted by kurumi at 10:45 AM on March 1, 2004

In the News:

 Love
 Fluffiness
 Beautiful sunsets
 Brotherhood of Man
 Kittens
 Crystals
 Flowers
 Lop-eared rabbits
 Fireworks
 Waterfalls
posted by Down10 at 1:11 PM on March 3, 2004