August 30, 2002:   Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter in
the supermarket – today's headlines  (Tabloid Headlines comes
to you two days early this weekend  owing  to  an early adverti-
sing deadline for the holiday):

 
Women & fish both fake orgasms!

 
SIAMESE QUINTUPLETS!
   3 BOYS AND 2 GIRLS JOINED AT THE WAIST!
Million$ in ad offers pour in from diaper companies!

 
FORGET ABOUT TOAD LICKING!
 There's a new drug:  LIZARD  POOP!
 

How to use your cell phone
 WITHOUT getting cancer!

 
'DON'T CALL US FREAKS!'
     SAY DEFORMED ROCKERS

 
CHINA TUNNELS THROUGH EARTH
        – TO INVADE AMERICA!
 

AMOEBAS ATTACK FLORIDA SWIMMERS!

 
JESUS' TOMB FOUND IN INDIA?

 
   AFRICAN TRIBE WORSHIPS
BARBRA STREISAND'S NOSE!
 

101-TON DALMATIAN
     [actually, he weighs only 154 pounds]

 
KILLER SEAGULLS
      PECK GRANDPA TO DEATH!
 
                [all courtesy Weekly World News :   This issue is worth running
                 out and buying  –  just for the photos of the Siamese quints in
                 one six-legged  diaper  (oops!  What became of the other four
                 legs? Is that part of what being "Siamese" is all about?),  the
                 lizard dung doobie being rolled,  and the handicapped rock &
                 roll band!   Sorry,  copyright restrictions prohibit our sending
                 you these photos with Tabloid Headlines]
 
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August 25, 2002:   Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter in
the supermarket – today's headlines:


WORLD'S FATTEST TWINS
 - ARRESTED FOR STEALING THE -
   WORLD'S FATTEST CAT
   SHE: 2,850 lbs!   HE: 2,902 lbs!   CAT: 42 lbs 12 oz!
             FREE PINUP POSTER INSIDE!

                        [courtesy Weekly World News]

 
JIMMY HOFFA'S SHRUNKEN HEAD FOUND IN FLORIDA!

                                                  [courtesy Weekly World News]
 

LETTERS to the EDITOR!

FGDean@aol.com wrote at Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:24:16 PDT:

"Slow news week"?  I'm not so sure.  Tatum's bust is significant;
it serves as evidence that she is still alive.

But who is Justin Timberlake? . . .
                                         
Tatum's bust is significant?  Gee, we don't know -- last time we
saw her was in Paper Moon, and she was sorta flat-chested then.
Justin  Timberlake  is Britney Spears' former boy friend  (fiancée?
signficant either?)  –  as  if  anyone of our generation would give a
fuck.

We got a letter from our crusty old ex-assistant-city-editor  of  the
Indianpolis Star, Richard R. Roberts – who wore black T-shirts to
work  and barked into two telephones and squeezed tennis balls in
both  hands  to  strengthen his wrists  (all  at  the  same  time),  and
thought he was  Norman Mailer  ("But Norman Mailer stabbed his
wife!" gasped Margie Brahms, who at the time was a fellow repor-
ter with us under RRRRRRRRoberts' tutelage), and whose tooth we
knocked out in a party game  in which we simply stood facing each
other taking turns slapping one another in the cheek with open hand
(he caught the tooth in his left hand and stuffed it back into its sock-
et),  and who is now in his late 70's  –   in which he said  "the lot of
good actors is paltry now along with other cultural indices  –   when
Ben Afleck and Mike Myers are the best we have, it's unfortunate."
On other matters he commented, "Most fiction I have seen lately is
like  being locked in a ladies' powder room  or  getting  your  head
stuck in a milling machine.  Most music sounds like dinosaur farts."
He wrote also:

"An  axiom:   Never trust a man until you know you can knock him
down at  any time if he gets out of line.  Use fist, hammer, ball bat –
anything handy and dependable.   This applies also to male women,
which are far more numerous than they used to be . . . ."

Thank you for writing.                                       -- The Editors


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August 18, 2002:  Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter in
the supermarket – today's headlines (sorry, slow news week):


TATUM O'NEAL CAUGHT SMOKING CRACK!

                                                                      [courtesy National Enquirer]
 

BRITNEY CRACKS UP!

                                [courtesy the Star]

 
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August 11, 2002:  Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter in
the supermarket – today's headlines:

 
REAGAN HAD MENTAL COLLAPSE IN WHITE HOUSE!

                                                                                          [courtesy the Globe – this is news?]
 

and, this week's special, headline plus article synopsis and excerpts:

Family learns teen in casket is not their son

   Brandenburg, Ky. – Jeremy Hylemon, 15, and John Grubs Jr., 16, were critically injured
in a one-car accident here early Wednesay, July 31.  Both were flown to University Hospit-
al in Louisville,  where the boy identified as Grubs died the same morning.  His  funeral  was
held three days later. The boy identified as Hylemon lay in a coma in the hospital those three
days as his family sat and stood watch.

   A friend of the boys attended the funeral, looked in the casket,  and recognized the corpse
as  Hylemon's,  not  Grubs'.  He rushed to the hospital to tell Hylemon's mother.  She  called
her mother, who rushed to the funeral home, not in time to stop the funeral (it was over), but
in time to stop the cremation.

   Numerous attendants at the "Grubs" wake had said, "That doesn't look like John," but were
told that his severe head trauma required heavy makeup.     At the hospital Hylemon's mother
had said,  "That don't look like Jeremy.  His  nose  is  too  big."  The hospital said he suffered
head trauma when he went through the windshield.   She  said,  "Well,  his upper lip is fatter."
And they said that's due to the head trauma.

   In short, the hospital, mortuary, police and coroner's spokespersons were "blaming the vic-
tims"; and they blamed all misidentifications on the victims' families.  But all family spokesper-
sons said that none of them was ever asked  for positive identification;  they were simply told
who was who.

   And Jefferson County Coroner Richard Greathouse added insult to death and injury,  com-
menting to a reporter,  "I wouldn't have any trouble ID'ing this young man if he were my own
son."

   Meanwhile the mourners, who had mourned three-and-a-half days for naught, and those ho-
ping and praying for the survival of a loved one,  who had hoped and prayed three-and-a-half
days for naught,  traded places. . . .

                [courtesy The Louisville Courier-Journal.   Despite the strongly held opinions
                 of certain Republicans, the Courier-Journal is not a tabloid; and this bizarre true
                 story scooped all the fiction in all the tabloids combined this week.]

 
LETTERS to the EDITOR:

dss <newnewtonium@netscape.net> wrote Tues 06 Aug 2002 @19:26:24 EDT:
I appreciate the Tabloid Headlines service.    I wouldn't read the damn tab-
loids if they were free.  And your service saves me all that time.  I just don't
understand how you have time to do it.

If anyone has any understanding of the internet (which is questionable), don't
they realize that a sarcastic and ironic spam is its own joke and condemnation
of the internet?

 
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August 4, 2002: Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter
in the supermarket – today's headlines:

 
WORLD'S SMARTEST APE GOES TO COLLEGE
                        Chimp scores 150 on IQ test and gets
                           scholarship to a state university! 
                INSIDE:  How YOU can chat with Frank the chimp on the Web!

                          [courtesy Weekly World NewsSorry,  Dave,  they did not
                           name the university
– but they didn't deny it was Indiana!]

 
CLINTONS REACH DIVORCE DEAL!
            After he's caught with Aussie blonde

                                                [courtesy the Globe]

 
WORLD'S YOUNGEST NINJA!
    9-month old baby gets
      black belt in karate

     [courtesy Weekly World News]
 

LETTERS to and FROM the EDITOR:
Frank Reed <Jansblooms@aol.com> wrote
Sun 28 Jul 2002 @12:07:09 CDT "for Jan":

Hi Natty, I do not read the Tabloids and recommend
you not waste your time on them either.

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