Funny / Our Dumb Century

• When World War II is declared:
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  • Hungary reacts to the war by immediately surrendering to the Soviet Union, giving this darkly humorous and eerily plausible description of Josef Stalin's reaction:
    Stalin, who was present to accept the Hungarian offer, was seen to deliver a curt nod and smile for a long unblinking moment.
  • And in the corner there is a box that says "Biggest Typesetting In All The Land".
• Moon Landing:
  • The entire "holy fucking shit we landed on the Moon" article from 1969.
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    Tranquility: The moon. For Christ's sake. The moon.
    [Beat]
    Over.
• "OJ Simpson knifes mercilessly through young, vulnerable defense for 214 yards".
• "JFK Shot by Mafia, Castro, CIA, Teamsters, LBJ - president shot 129 times from 43 different angles"
  • And everyone involved is subsequently shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
• "Allen Funt Lets Kennedy In On Hilarious 'Cuban Missile Crisis' Prank"
• Smaller side bits promoting features further in the "vintage" papers include "Complete Creed-Balboa Fight Coverage" in 1976 and "Your Star Wars 2 Rumor Central" at the turn of The '80s (for context, the book was released just two months before The Phantom Menace).
• "Russians Continuing to Kill Rasputin." The fact that the Kill Rasputin Project is enough of an ongoing establishment to have its own holiday staff party, the ever-more-insane efforts they've put into the project including chopping Rasputin into hundreds of tiny bits and still somehow failing, and Yusupov's assertion that "We're making excellent progress."

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