The Great Balloon Boy Hoax

Several people I know have recalled the classic Simpsons episode:

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10/16/2009 - 12:06pm EDT |

Everyone is doing it---getting their back to back segments on Anderson Cooper---so here's my own plan:

1] Build an ark
2] collect two of every species
3] stuff them inside it
4] wait for it to rain forty days and forty nights
5] repopulate the world with Sarah Palin

I'm looking for investors. Interested?

gw

10/16/2009 - 1:01pm EDT |

Krusty's krooning always gets me.

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