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                         December 8, 1999

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              OY, WHAT'S WITH THESE MESHUGAH LIGHTS?!

NEW YORK, NY (DPI) - Scientists at the Environmental Protection
Agency are warning citizens about an unexplained outbreak of forest
growth in many homes and businesses. Dr. Morris Schwartz explains,
"We started getting reports just after Thanksgiving that people
were spotting fir trees in office reception areas and employee
lounges where none had been before. Take this report from Benjamin
Kass in Miami Beach, 'One afternoon when I got back from court,
suddenly there's this tree in my law firm's reception area.
My mother would plotz if she saw such a thing inside.' We've got
similar reports coming in from orthodontist offices, accounting
firms, and delicatessens all over New York, Hollywood, and Cherry
Hill."

Also troubling are reports that houses in residential areas all
over the country are eerily glowing each night, some in various
colors. Said David Rothberg, of Philadelphia, "Each night on my
way home, more and more houses are giving off a strange series
of lights. I hope there hasn't been a radiation leak or something.
My mother is gonna worry sick about me." Dr. Schwartz has consulted
with colleagues at Mount Sinai, Cedars, and Brandies, but no one
has been able to explain these strange phenomena. Dr. Schwartz's
mother, however, suggests that chicken soup and a nice Jewish girl
can solve almost any problem.

- Reported by Jonathan Colan

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                   CLOONEY FLOAT TIES UP TRAFFIC
                     
NEW YORK, NY (DPI) - An unused float from the recent Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade escaped from its hangar yesterday and
terrorized Manhattan. The "Naked George Clooney" float, which was
not a part of the famous parade, floated down Fifth Avenue for
several hours, its manly thing nearly snagging on power lines as it
dangled some 20 feet below the huge balloon. To make matters worse,
throngs of panting, moaning women chased after the rubber Dr. Ross.
"Those chicks just flipped out," said NYPD Captain Al Buterol.
"They were climbing up lampposts to try to get a better look."
The excitement finally ended when "Big George" crossed the Hudson
river and impaled himself on the Statue of Liberty.

- Reported by Tristan Fabriani

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               LITTLE DRUMMER BOY SUCCUMBS TO CANCER

THE BOWERY, NY (DPI) - Facing a future as bleak as his past was
bright, the famous Little Drummer Boy of song was found dead today
in a $15-a-week skid row flophouse. Boarding house proprietor Al
"Gibby" Gibson at first shooed away Probe reporters, claiming
"I don't know nothin' about no drummer boy. Now if you're talkin'
'bout drumsticks, or sticks, like in needles for shootin' smack,
that's 'nother matter entirely." But after an offer of a hit off a
bottle of Thunderbird, Gibson became more talkative. "----, it wuz
a bad way to go. A bad way. Poor boy didn't do no coke or nothin'.
Didn't even drink. An' he didn't do hisself in -- no, no; it weren't
nothin' like that. But man, he started seein' how drummers are
nowadays -- Charlie Watts, Bun "E" Carlos, cats like that -- and you
ain't never seen them without one of them cancer sticks danglin' out
their mouths. Sometimes 2 or 3 at once, dig? And the kids, they goes
for ---- like that, you know? Poor drummer boy, he find there ain't
much call for little, innocent-lookin' cats who jes' knows one riff.
So he starts in a puffin' away, thinkin' that'll score him some
bread. But it wuz sad, man. He wuz jus' tryin' to update his gig,
'stand what I'm sayin'? Jes' sad, man. Hey -- what'll you give me
for a used drum?"

- Reported by Peter Bauer

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               US FINALLY DECLARES WAR ON NORTH KOREA

PEEYONGO-YANGEEO, NORTH KOREA (DPI) - In a bid to establish a
legacy, any legacy, good or bad, US President Bill Clinton has
formulated a heartless plan to "take care of unfinished business"
in North Korea. The plan involves a surprise concert featuring the
singing of the President's under-achieving brother Roger. The
concert is ostensibly sponsored by the Seoul Broadcasting System,
but in reality it is a CIA black op, codenamed "Operation Bad
Kimshee."

"We considered nuclear weapons, but those things can render a place
uninhabitable for as long as 10,000 years," said White House
spokesman Joe Lockhart. "Roger's singing kills quickly, though not
mercifully, and there is no radioactive fallout." The move comes
at a time when the morale and general health of the North Korean
populace are at their lowest point since China helped them kick
the US and its allies out of the country in 1954. Mr. Lockhart
explained, "In recent years, North Korean spies have variously
drowned in their own submarines, fallen off cliffs, and gotten into
fatal shootouts with each other while trying to spy on a basically
free and open South Korean society. This has led to a communal loss
of face; in America we just laugh off that kind of thing and move
on to the next sporting event or shopping opportunity, whereas these
crazy Koreans get all depressed about losing face before the world.
It's sad-funny, funny-sad, but it is something we can exploit.
Also, the bungling of the Communist regime has led to food shortages
and mass starvation. We think that a small push is all that it would
take to tumble the whole shebang into the abyss. A few tunes from
Roger is more than a small push into the abyss, I assure you."
Word of the impending musical assault has leaked out, causing mass
panic in North Korea. Wealthy North Koreans are disguising
themselves as South Koreans and buying safe passage across the
border. Less-well-off Koreans are plaintively wailing about the
Geneva Convention -- and UN resolutions against weapons of mass
destruction -- to anyone who will listen, which is basically nobody.

- Reported by Chris Jones

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