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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Clown Show

    29 December 2024

    Gary Beck — Excerpt: There’s no circus anymore. It closed over a year ago. Don’t you watch the news on TV?

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  • Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher from the Amazon Original series, by Surly (CC BY-NC 4.0)
    Culture - Film/TV - Humour - Weekly Features

    My Name’s Reacher. Jack Reacher. And I Just Want the Violence to Stop

    22 December 2024

    Daniel Seifert — Excerpt: I carry a little chart of the human body, and I cross off each area where I’ve broken someone’s bone.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Super Squirrel and the Gas Station Goons

    22 December 2024

    Wesley Zurovec — Excerpt: “I’m Super Squirrel. And I demand you let my poodle go.”

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Paimaam Brings His Wife to Delhi

    15 December 2024

    Ravibala Shenoy — Excerpt: Except for this one weakness, Paimaam was a simple man.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    A Writing Escapade

    15 December 2024

    Mitra Samal — Excerpt: When Naaz says something seriously it gains weightage, because she rarely does.

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