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From The Onion:
MacArthur Genius Grant Goes Right Up
Recipient’s Nose
ALBANY, NY–According to friends, the $500,000, five-year, no-strings-attached MacArthur Fellowship awarded to Jim Yong Kim earlier this month went right up the 43-year-old scientist’s nose. “Kim’s efforts to eradicate drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in Russian prisons and Peruvian ghettos amazed everyone—as did his appetite for top-grade cocaine,” Marisa Amir said Monday. “As soon as that first check arrived, Kim was on the phone with his dealer, and two hours later, he was in a hot tub full of strippers.” His first installment of money gone, the scientist then returned to the task of developing a whole-cell cholera toxin recombinant B subunit vaccine.
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God’s Gift To Women Returned
TUCSON, AZ–Moments after unsuccessfully propositioning all of the female patrons at the Kon Tiki Lounge, God’s gift to women, 31-year-old Patrick Roland, was returned to his maker Monday night. “That Pat guy was cute, but he sure was pushy,” said Debbie Werner, a fellow Lounge patron. “He kept trying to buy me Cosmos, but I told him to buzz off. A few minutes later, he stumbled out the door and got run over by a bus.” Werner said she hopes that next time God’s feeling generous, He gives women something more useful, like money.
(Hat tip: David P. Janes)
