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!
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.
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