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Marshall Law Declared When Chaos Reigns Due to 2.99 Gas

  Springfield, MO- The Missouri National Guard responded to Springfield citizens who gave into their darkest, most savage nature when gas prices dropped below $3.00 a gallon this week. With prices so low Springfieldians turned on family, friends, strangers, and societal order to fill their tanks for 5 cents less a gallon. The gas-crazy mob […]

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Kum & Go To Add Slot Machine Gas Pumps

  Springfield, MO- Due to the constantly varying gas prices, Kum & Go has decided to change all gas pumps to slot machine like apparatuses. Customers will put anywhere from one dollar to 25-dollars into the machines and pull the lever. Gas could be as low as 50-cents a gallon to 5-dollars depending on how […]

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In the Ozarks, Bank Of America Losing Ground To Bank of China

  Springfield, MO- Due to multiple factors; the five-dollar debit card charge, a distrust of “bailed out” banks, and “Occupy Wall Street mania” many Ozarkians are switching from Bank of America to the newly created Bank of China.   The new bank will offer free little red check books, a Great Wall mounted clock, and […]

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“99.9 Percent” Movement Fights for Higher Anti-Bacterial Standards

Springfield, MO – On the heels of the Occupy Wall Street movement that refer to themselves as 99 percenters (those Americans who are less powerful than the top earning 1 percent) a new local movement has begun calling themselves the 99.9 percenters.  They aim to raise awareness of the remaining 0.1 percent of bacteria and […]

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Netflix Buys Major Video, Focuses on VHS Rentals

  Springfield, MO – Attempting to please its Ozarks customer base, Netflix has announced the purchase of Major Video on Glenstone street to serve as a brick and mortar storefront allowing for casual VHS rentals. The news comes just days after Netflix identified sister company Qwikster as an awful idea spawned from the head of […]

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Ozarkians Remember Steve Jobs

  Springfield, MO – With the passing of Steve Jobs, the visionary and co-founder of Apple, people from around the Ozarks are remembering his legacy and reflecting on the profound effect he had on their lives. “He made them iThingy’s right?” waxed Norma Grace Dean of Ava, MO, “I seen them once on the television, […]

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Local Target Announces New Promotion: “MILFs all day everyday!”

  Springfield, MO – After analyzing a recent survey of their customer demographics, Target discovered what sets them apart from most other retail stores in the area.  Their key shoppers are young attractive females, mostly young mothers.  They then commissioned a follow-up study to determine what it is about Target that this group likes the […]

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Walmart to Develop Wal-borhoods for More Neighborhood Markets

  Springfield, MO – The Bentonville, AR based retail giant Walmart has announced plans to build more neighborhoods in the Ozarks to accommodate their growth plan for the area. Walmart will begin construction on the communities this fall which will allow time to build the Neighborhood Markets to support them by early next year. The […]

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Postal Service “Mails It In” Develops Mailbot

  Springfield, MO – Frustrated by an antiquated business model and angered at the thought of financial collapse local mail carriers are simply mailing in their efforts until Congress fixes their centuries-old institution. Mailman Jonsey Harth said, “it’s about time we did something about all of this electronic mail, electronic bill payment and some hog […]

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“Who Want’s to Be Deported?” to be Filmed in SGF

  Springfield, Mo. -  City leaders have announced the first episode of a new show from the National Broadcast Company (NBC) will be filmed in Springfield this fall.  In coordination with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the new show will be called ‘Let’s Get You ‘Legal’’.  Featuring undocumented aliens who will be given eight minutes […]

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Springfield’s Employed/Unemployed Use YouTube to Escape Grim Reality

  Springfield, MO – Much like the 1930′s, when thousands of unemployed workers took to movie theaters to escape their grim reality of joblessness, thousands of laid off workers use YouTube as a means for modern escapism. Also, the gainfully employed use YouTube just as much to escape their own reality. In fact, according to […]

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Stock Collapse Predicted by Mayan Calendar

  Springfield, MO—The Maya calendar, a system of calendars and almanacs used in the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and in some modern Maya communities in highland Guatemala and Oaxaca, Mexico correctly predicted the bloody nosedive of stocks on the US market yesterday. According to researchers, “the evidence was there the whole time we just […]

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Couple Reaches Personal Debt Ceiling Agreement

  Springfield, MO—Jerry and Trisha Thumbolt reached an historic agreement this week on a compromise to raise their new personal debt ceiling limit in exchange for more than $200,000 in long-term spending cuts. Mr. Thumbolt emphatically passed the emergency legislation Tuesday to avoid a first-ever Thumbolt family default, rushing the legislation to Mrs. Thumbolt for […]

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Car Sale Increases Drive-By Shootings

Rogersville, MO – First Auto Outlet recently started a controversial promotion: buy a car, get a gun. Owner Duwayne Nortis insists that his auto dealership be as patriotic as possible, and that means “celebrating” the Second Amendment. “Nothing is more American than getting free stuff and then maybe using that stuff to do great harm […]

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Freakin’ Moron Allowed to Purchase Fireworks

  Springfield, MO—Julie Robertson, a firework salesperson, said she was hesitant to sell an entire gross of M-80s to Norbert Gilferdton as he looked to be a freakin’ moron capable of harming himself and/or others. Unfortunately, no laws exists banning sales of fireworks to idiots, much less freakin’ morons. “This man came into the tent […]