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HELLCAT-POWERED CHARGER TAKES FIRST PLACE IN NATIONAL GOPHER BLOWING CONTEST

A slightly modified 2015 Dodge Charger took top honors in the Grand National Gopher Blowing Contest in Shipsewana yesterday after exhaust pressure from its 707-horsepower Hellcat engine blasted a record 37 gophers from their holes. .   A… Read More

PARKSPLUG EDITOR DIES OF WRITER’S BLOCK

Junior Editor Doodles McGuffey is shown after his head was lifted from his keyboard Longtime Parksplug junior editor Doodles McGuffey, who had been suffering from a severe case of writer’s block, was found dead at his computer yesterday…. Read More

SPACECRAFT PHOTOGRAPHS WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN AUTOZONE ON PLUTO

After traveling three billion miles, or about the distance between El Paso and Houston, NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft has begun sending back photographs of Pluto. And one image in particular has scientists discombobulated.   NASA released this photograph… Read More

AIRCRAFT MAKER’S STEALTH CAR PROTOTYPE CAUGHT ON CAMERA!

A prototype of Lockheed Martin’s upcoming stealth car was photographed yesterday while parked in a Walmart lot in Palmdale, California.   “I had heard a rumor that Lockheed was going to build it because their military aircraft sales… Read More

WHAT THE DODGE BROTHERS REALLY LOOKED LIKE

John (L) and Horace Dodge in their workshop

RECORD SALES OF CHICKEN WINGS DURING NASCAR EVENTS LEADS TO GLUT OF WINGLESS CHICKEN BODIES

So many chicken wings have been served during televised NASCAR races this year that the U.S. is now awash in a glut of wingless chicken bodies, warns the U.S. Department of Poultry and Tobacco.   USDPT’s Flicka Sperling… Read More

HONDA INSIDER CLAIMS ODYSSEY’S “LIGHTNING BOLT” DESIGN WAS UNINTENTIONAL

WAS UNUSUAL DESIGN THE RESULT OF A DEFECTIVE ROBOT? A lightning bolt.  That’s what Honda calls the unique zig-zag body design on the side of the company’s popular Odyssey minivan. At least that’s what the automaker told us… Read More

WHY DUMP BEDS DON’T WORK WELL ON UNIBODY PICKUPS

FIAT MAKES DESIGN CHANGES AFTER POOR SHOWING IN CRASH TESTS

AUTOMAKER NOW CRASH TESTS “EVERY CAR WE BUILD”   A colorful lineup of new crash-tested Fiats for sale at a dealership in Crouch Lake After receiving marginal scores in government crash tests last year, Fiat claims it has… Read More

ANTI-SPEEDING CRUSADER DIES; INTERRED IN SPEEDBUMP

Grant Knob, 83, a retired highway worker who loathed speeders, died Thursday at his home and was buried in a bright yellow speed bump on E. Holperig Rd. A plaque identifies the bump or hump in which deceased… Read More