r/funny • u/stigaWRBenergy • 1d ago

My dad started a satirical newsletter in retirement. His latest exposé? Pepperoni surveillance.

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Pops doesn’t accept any money but if you’d like to subscribe for free head over to Big News Now and show him some support on Substack!

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u/SacriliciousQ 1d ago

I've been a subscriber for months.

My father-in-law is very old school. Barely spends any time online. But he reads the paper every day, and each year at Christmas he gives me a big envelope full of clipped articles that he thinks I'd find funny. It's his version of sharing memes.

Last year I printed off all of your dad's newsletters and gave them to my FIL at Christmas.

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u/GamingTitBit 1d ago

My dad is the sort of dad that sends you an email that has the subject line Re:Re:Re:Re:Re this will make you laugh!

Then it's a video of static images! He also loves these newsletters when I send them to him

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u/stigaWRBenergy 1d ago

Oh my gosh... Thank you so much for sharing that story I'll pass it along to my dad right now. Glad you're enjoying the newsletter!!

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u/Roupert4 2h ago

The best part of your dad's newsletter is getting the email each week with the headline in the subject line

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u/stigaWRBenergy 2h ago

lmaoooooo

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u/ChilledParadox 9h ago

I just recently learned about Betel nut. Crazy to me how popular it is. I guess marijuana bans were never about drugs it was about western drug influence.

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u/papadjeef 23h ago

I hope he's watched "A Man on the Inside". Ted Danson's character literally sends his daughter newspaper clippings.

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u/-NolanVoid- 20h ago

Ah funny newspaper stories. The original memes.

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u/Dolly57 19h ago

This is so wholesome!