The word today is 'RAZORBACK': dictionary.com
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Keep all entries clean, creative, and courteous.
Enjoy the game!
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DEMI MOORE IN RAZORBACK SHOCK
ReplyDeleteby Isla Writeanything, our Hollywood Correspondent
[the following paragraph is unavailable at present, on the advice of our legal team. We MAY (or may not) have an apology ready for Ms Moore, should the need arise. However, we are making Herculean efforts to verify the source of our information, over lunch and drinks at the Cheerful Rumour brasserie. We hope to print something - anything - for your perusal in the next few hours]
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Misleading Info Embarrasses Sports Reporter
ReplyDeleteA local reporter received a call concerning Razorbacks and their location. Eager to impress his new boss, the young reporter drove to the site with his assistant(Names are being withheld to avoid further embarrassment). Upon arrival they glance around the multi acre lot, looking for the Arkansas team. Finally they locate the owner around back and they ask ,"I was told the Razorbacks are here?" Reluctantly the owner answers,"Yes, they are. You're lookin at 'em." "But... these are pigs sir," the reporter replies. "Yes, they are, and mighty fine ones at that. Caught 'em myself." With a stunned look on his face, the reporter walks away, his face looking about as red as the car he drove.
Pork-upine on the Loose!
ReplyDeleteAt the wheel of his Ford Razorback, our trusted correspondent Harrison G. Emm is looking for a porkupine that was sighted in the meat packing district. A witness confirmed that it was no hog-wash. "By the hair of my chinny chin chin, that swine was huffing and puffing like mad!" declared the pink faced observer."Let's hope he gets caught fast. Slaughtering Miss Piggy can be forgiven but going for Piglet? Let's skewer the bastard!"
Fresh from Wild and No Boar News -
NO STARRY RAZORBACK
ReplyDeleteIn a stunning admission, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) admitted publicly for the first time that there is no Razorback constellation.
"I guess we never got around to it" said the director. "It took forever just to agree on the 88 constellations we have now. Do you know how hard it is to draw accurate lines on the inside of a sphere?"
School children in an unidentified small country sent in this depiction of a proposed Razorback constellation.
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It doesn't look like much, but then neither do most of the other constellations.
"We'll form a committee!" he promised.
We all know what THAT means.
Bacon Robbery at Razorback Inn
ReplyDeleteAt 2am last night, a lone gunman wearing a mask came in and stole all the bacon at the Razorback Inn at Torqual.
Witness and Manager Ridge Dimetredon said "What kind of society go we live in, where people steal bacon?"
Your trepid reporter, Hamilton Trotter