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weird: Weekly news according to the supermarket tabloids

‘No hanging chads'

Weekly World News

(Nov. 15)
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At least not in Baghdad.

The WWN reports that to prevent any “hanky panky” at polls in Iraq this Jan. 31 (hanky panky?), the White House has dispatched a highly regarded and “morally superior” extraterrestrial named P'lod to observe the upcoming elections.

“There will be no hanging chads in Iraq,” P'lod has assured President George W. Bush, referring to the botched Florida ballots that turned the 2000 presidential election “into a fiasco,” the tabloid states.

“The White House believes that ensuring that the election is universally seen as legitimate is critical to transforming Iraq into a democracy that serves as a model for the region,” the WWN goes on to state, quoting no one, as far as we can tell.

However, it does quote an unnamed White House source as saying, “Riding herd over those Iraqis and ensuring the election is clean as a whistle won't be easy — but if anyone can do it, it's (P'lod).”

Don't be a boob: “Hey, guys! You can stop scratching your head and instantly determine whether a buxom lady's boobs are gifts from God or ‘store bought fakes,'

” reports the WWN .

“It's not hard when you know what to look for,” the tabloid quotes cosmetic surgeon Dr. Constance Cramer as saying and offers three tips from her “fascinating brochure” Are Those Things REAL? :

“Do the breasts point in the same direction? ‘Natural breasts occasionally look a little crooked, but breasts with implants often go every which way,' Cramer says.”

“Do the breasts … quiver when a low-flying airplane passes overhead or a train rumbles by on nearby tracks? ‘Natural breasts are designed to withstand ordinary day-to-day stress,' says Cramer.”

Finally, natural breasts are spaced “one to two fingers apart,” but implants “have a tendency to drift, leaving a wide and sometimes palm-sized space between them.”


On the covers

  • From the Weekly World News : “Martha Stewart prison horror!”

  • From the Sun : “Amazing stories of life after death”

  • From the Globe : “Laci: new crime scene photos”
  • From The National Enquirer : “Roy suicide attempt!”

    It's a boy for ‘Leash Girl'

  • From the Enquirer : Lynndie England, who became infamous after newspapers around the world published a photo of the Army reservist holding an Iraqi prisoner on a leash, has given birth to a boy. The father is fellow soldier Charles Graner, who, like England, faces charges of abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.

    ‘Horning in'?

  • From the Enquirer and the Globe (so it's gotta be true): As soon as he found out that Katie Couric, 47, had broken up with her beau of four years, TV mogul Tom Werner, jazz trumpeter and beautiful person Chris Botti, 42, called the Today show host and asked her out, and she “didn't think twice,” the Enquirer reports.

    Don't let 'em see ya sweat

  • From the Enquirer : Nicolas Cage might want to rethink doing sit-ups outdoors, as a set of really unflattering photos in the tabloid will attest. They show the actor going for the burn — and conking the back of his bald head — on the deck of a yacht. Ouch!

    Compiled by Marcia Greenwood, who avoids humiliating exercise regimens at all costs.

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