Jokes for Show #93

Posted by Lex Friedman on Aug 5, 2009

The government’s Cash For Clunkers program continues to go well. Yeah, Congress just paid $250 for Nickleback’s latest album. So it’s really working.
Rupert Murdoch said today that he thinks at some point soon, all of News Corp’s websites will charge visitors. I have a joke about how stupid that is, but it’s gonna cost you twenty bucks.
Barbara Streisand will be auctioning off some of her personal items for charity. But big ticket items, like her designer dresses, are going to cost you an arm and a nose.

Jokes for Show #25

Posted by Lex Friedman on Apr 3, 2009

Billionaire and News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch says that more newspapers should be charging for their online editions. Reached for comment, everyone else on the Internet disagreed with him.
The US Postal Service is cutting another 1500 jobs. The extra bad news for the employees getting laid off is that supposedly, their severance checks are all, uh, “in the mail.” That’s unfortunate.
Domino’s accidentally gave away 11,000 free pizzas on their website. Even more unfortunately for Domino’s, they had to deliver them all to Nigeria. Do you know how hard that is to do in 30 minutes?!
Iowa today became the first state in the Midwest to approve same-sex marriages. In a survey of gay couples in Iowa, BOTH of them are really excited about the new law.