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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Richie Jay

    4 May 2025

    Muheez Olawale — Excerpt: After Jimi garbs himself in the chosen clothes and ornaments, he splashes some cologne all over him. Looking expensive equals zero if he doesn’t smell expensive.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    The curious case of Tim Cranshaw and all the people that were hurt, maimed, or mildly inconvenienced by it

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    Nenad Pavlovic — Excerpt: It took three fire brigades exactly seven days to put out the fire at Acacia No. 9.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    ‘In the Checkout Lane,’ ‘Shitstorm’ and ‘Hours Before the Inspector Comes to Approve Us for a Loan’

    13 April 2025

    Ashley Kirkland — Excerpt: That’s what you get / for making out / in the grass.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    ‘failure to turn,’ ‘roots,’ ‘cut flowers,’ ‘different windows’ and ‘couldn’t be bothered’

    13 April 2025

    Nathaniel Calhoun — Excerpt: someone I loved / was allergic to mint / and I forgot that, once. / she is okay / but we are no longer close.

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