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Poll: Americans Strongly Reject National Identity Card Unless It’s Called “Facebook”
Editor’s Note: Way Off the Grid is a satire feature of Off the Grid News. While the articles in this section may deal with current events, they are meant to portray these topics in a satirical and humorous light. WASHINGTON ...
Read More »In Post Steve Jobs Surge, Apple Announces New Product Called Beta Videocassette Recorder
CUPERTINO – To great fanfare, Apple, Inc. unveiled the iBetamax video recorder as part of its continuing venture into next generation technologies, following the passing of Apple visionary Steve Jobs. Apple says the iBetamax will “provide consumers the ability to ...
Read More »US Postal Service Admits It’s Just Standing Around Without Much to Do
WASHINGTON – In response to Congressional grilling about the need for a $9 billion bailout for the United States Postal Service, postmaster general Derrick Donahoe confessed that, given the internet, the USPS is now better thought of a “crucial museum ...
Read More »GOP Debate Surge Threatens Coastal and Inland Areas
WASHINGTON – As the Republican debate season strengthens over the next two months, emergency managers from Florida to Nevada have urged residents to develop disaster plans and determine whether they live in evacuation zones. Forecasters are expecting six to seven ...
Read More »Bankers Scold British Rioters for Lack of Subtlety
LONDON – As youth riots continue to erupt throughout parts of Great Britain, several leading British bankers have complained that rioters have violated national bailout and plunder etiquette as laid down by the banking industry. “These protests are utterly unseemly ...
Read More »Pentagon Successfully Disintegrates $320 Million at Hypersonic Speed
WASHINGTON – Pentagon scientists on Friday acknowledged they were ecstatic concerning the second successful flight vaporization of an experimental hypersonic plane carrying millions of dollars in cash. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) glider, called the Falcon Hypersonic Technology ...
Read More »FDA Determines Fatal Risks From Hogwarts Magical Wands
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that it plans to remove the Phoenix-Core Series of magical wands from pharmacy shelves. FDA testing and field reporting have provided evidence of overheating along the wand handle and shaft, ...
Read More »President, Congress Admit Debt-Ceiling Debate was Elaborate Prank
WASHINGTON – President Obama and Republican leaders confessed Tuesday to playing a belated April Fools’ joke on the American public in the form of a seemingly apocalyptic debate about the debt ceiling. Amid general giggling and back-slapping at Wednesday’s bipartisan ...
Read More »Computers Increasingly Resentful Over Their Wasted Skills
CHICAGO – Recent polls by 3-TechX Polling indicate a sharp upsurge in computer dissatisfaction with their users. 79% of Toshiba Portege Laptops say they feel overqualified having to spend their time looking up cat videos on YouTube. 86% of Apple ...
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