May 12, 2012
It takes a lot of time and effort to keep Hlobe Tribune.Info going. Direct costs of web hosting and buying urls, combined with indirect costs of the time spent on this web site that could go to more remunerative enterprises adds up very quickly. It is for this reason that we present Hassan Nasrallah’s commercial [...]
Tags: Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Nasrallah satire, Old Spice
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May 1, 2012
Years ago, I saw a satirical ad for “Delta Overseas Airway” (DOA), with the slogan “You’ll feel like you never left the ground, because we treat you like dirt.” If such an airline ever had a safety video, it would probably look like the following MADTV spoof video.
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April 15, 2012
One of the most potent weapons in politics is ridicule. Millions of Americans who remember 1980 with its slogan “ABC. Anybody But Carter” sense at least as great a level of urgency this time around. Perhaps a better slogan than “Anybody But Obama would be “Stop B.O.” Whatever slogan works best, the message is the [...]
Tags: anti Obama humour, anti Obama jokes, dump Obama, Obama and Carter
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April 4, 2012
The following is all the things commonly said by a mother in the course of a day set to thetune of the William Tell Overture. With the exception of the lines dealing with omputers and I pods, little has changed since I was a child. Of course, the song is a runaway You Tube hit, [...]
Tags: William Tell, William Tell overture, WilliamTell mom song, WilliamTell spoof
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April 2, 2012
Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson wants you to know that she is in with the in crowd. She has joined approximately three dozen actors, directors and writers who are protesting the inclusion of an Israeli theater company in an upcoming Shakespeare festival in England.Mark Rylance and seven-time Oscar nominee Mike Leigh are among the trendy [...]
Tags: anti Israeli boycot, boycotting Israel, Emma Thompon, Habimah in England, I'm in with the in crowd, Israeli theater in England
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March 23, 2012
One of the most tasteless jokes I have ever heard is the heartless one liner, “Aside from that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?” A Turkish shampoo has established its place in the world championship of tastelessness with a commercial in which Hitler himself plugs a men’s shampoo. The commercial equates Hitler with manliness, which [...]
Tags: Hitler homosexual, Hitler mssing testicle, Hitler shampoo, tasteless jokes
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March 8, 2012
The following video is a satirical presentation of what a Peace Now megillah reading would look like. In our confused times, there is a serious question of just how far removed from reality this video actually is.
Tags: Peace Now, Purim, Purim Shtick
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March 8, 2012
High school biology teacher Sal Minella grew up in an Italian Jewish household in Bensonhurst, When he had his bar mitzvah, he wanted his commitment to Judaism to be a rational commitment to science as well as to religion. Fortunately, he found an undestanding mentor in Rabbi Lionel Baumschwinger, a rabbi who studied evolution along [...]
Tags: Darwin, evolution, Purim satire, Purim Shtick
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March 7, 2012
Purim News Service Rudi Stettner Purim is a very uncomfortable time for Jewish peace activists. Kurt Kapowitz of J Street is very sensitive to this, and has tried to make Purim into something more inclusive and multicultural. “We have a lot of vegetarian members, so any Purim feats will have to be vegetarian. “explained [...]
Tags: J Street, Peace Now, Purim Shtick, Purin
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March 7, 2012
(Purim News Service) Gaylord Hartmann was a member of Jews For Jesus for over 20 years. His whole life was spent working on converting Jews to Christianity. For three years, however, Mr. Hartmann (who now calls himself Walid)has been a devout Sunni Muslim. “When I heard the term “Sunni”, it sounded so happy [...]
Tags: Jews and Muslims, Jews For Jesus, Purim, Purim Shtick
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