Posted on 12/27/2025 9:12:51 AM PST by Rummyfan
The biggest story of 2025, to judge from the number of people who sent it to me, was this raccoon:
In case you somehow missed this story: In late November, this raccoon got into a state liquor store in Ashland, Va., by falling though the ceiling. Once inside, the raccoon ransacked the store, leaving a trail of broken bottles...
...and apparently consuming a large quantity of booze before passing out in the bathroom next to the toilet. That’s where the raccoon was found by a store employee, who called an animal-control officer, who took it to an animal shelter. When the raccoon finally sobered up, it was hired as director of security by the Louvre Museum.
(Excerpt) Read more at davebarry.substack.com ...
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If these words are not, some day, engraved on the front of a major federal building, we have to wonder why we even HAVE federal buildings.
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two astronauts finally return to Earth after being stranded aboard the International Space Station for nine months. They say they’re “happy to be home,” but add “that’s the last time we’re booking on Spirit.”
It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when his yearly reviews were actually pretty funny.
At least he jabs both sides.
Well their right to be silent isn’t an option any more.
The article's commenters seen to be mostly left of center and hence very uninformed about the facts or even the existence of the year's events, which is why they found Dave's takes so hilarious. Whereas we on FR found all of those events either hilarious or scornworthy on the days when they actually happened, so these gibes didn't seem so clever to us. We had already laughed, memed and punned them all.
Like most left-of-center folks, all Dave talked about was Donald Trump. Surely something else to be funny about could have piqued Dave's wit this past year, but apparently not.
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