Update Dave, in the comments:
I miss the WWN. My wife and I used to buy it at the grocery store every week. We have no source of factual, hard-hitting news anymore.
I can relate. Many's the time, while standing in line at the grocery store, that I would browse through the Weekly World News, sometimes laughing out loud at the headlines. Some of my favorites:
Cat eats parrot, talks.
Russian oil workers accidentally drill into hell, hear screams of the damned.
Woman's bra snaps, nine injured.
And here's a gem I just found on the internet:
Sadly, this jewel of journalism went out of business back in 2007.
I miss the WWN. My wife and I used to buy it at the grocery store every week. We have no source of factual, hard-hitting news anymore.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember that one, but we still have The National Enquirer for hard hitting investigative journalism.
DeleteWelcome, Dave!
DeleteTo me, the classic was always- "Boy trapped in refrigerator, eats own foot."
DeleteMy friend and his wife were in the WWN a couple times.
ReplyDeleteHe was a priest exorcising a possessed dishwasher for a frightened woman.
It cracked me up.
I knew a woman who, with her friend, drove hundreds of miles to Kalamazoo MI because she read a tabloid article that claimed Elvis had been spotted there. This was years after his death of course.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean, his "death"?
DeleteEasy, Paco. Rebecca may not have been a register reader of the WWN like you.
DeleteSorry. I meant "rumors of his death" of course.
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