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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/breaking-news-something-is-happening/ Is this the greatest ever send-up of 24-hour news? Warning: contains strong language and hilarity. From The Onion. Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere colganp@thepunch.com.au (Paul Colgan) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/breaking-news-something-is-happening/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/breaking-news-something-is-happening/#item2581 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:19:31 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bingle-in-the-shower-uncensored/ You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bingle-in-the-shower-uncensored/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bingle-in-the-shower-uncensored/#item2539 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:50:43 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/us-superbowl-now-with-ad-breaks-worth-watching/ Usually, when it comes to watching your favourite sport or movie on television, ads are the last thing you pay attention to.  These inconvenient and short bursts of time are more likely used for important, yet harried, tasks of making tea, dashing to the bathroom or checking phone messages. Not so when it comes to the Superbowl,  a game played yesterday in the United States where a collection of very clever ads became the exception to this rule. And while there’s a few “best of” lists floating around the internet today, here’s three The Punch team have voted worth watching. Seen any others? Share them here. kippistl@news.com.au (Lucy Kippist) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/us-superbowl-now-with-ad-breaks-worth-watching/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/us-superbowl-now-with-ad-breaks-worth-watching/#item2347 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:11:25 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hitler-is-disappointed-with-the-ipad/ It was never going to take long - here’s the Downfall parody of Hitler finding out about the iPad. As usual, he’s not happy and this contains some strong subtitles. colganp@thepunch.com.au (Paul Colgan) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hitler-is-disappointed-with-the-ipad/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hitler-is-disappointed-with-the-ipad/#item2268 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:20:31 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/conan-gets-the-best-ever-revenge-on-a-bad-boss/ America’s late night talk show crisis is almost an end with Conan O’Brien set to get the sack from the Tonight Show at the end of this week for the sooky Jay Leno who has decided he wants his old job back, and apparenlty has some born right to host the Tonight Show. The whole saga has been covered to the point of exhaustion in the US media, with Conan walking away with a cool $45 million and also likely to go to the FOX network for a brand new show. For his part David Letterman’s joy over NBC’s troubles has bubbled over in to outright self-indulgent schadenfreude in his opening monologues, largely because he was overlooked for the job himself more than a decade ago. The upside is that someone as funny as Conan O’Brien, fresher and funnier than both Leno and Letterman for many years, has an entire week left to get back at the people giving him the sack. So what do you do? Spend all their money of course. leo.shanahan@thepunch.com.au (Leo Shanahan) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/conan-gets-the-best-ever-revenge-on-a-bad-boss/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/conan-gets-the-best-ever-revenge-on-a-bad-boss/#item2213 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:02:10 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punctuation-mark-for-sarcasm-a-brilliant-idea/ It really is the best invention, ever. A company in the US has dreamt up a bit of punctuation to indicate that you are being sarcastic. As if you ever going to need it. colganp@thepunch.com.au (Paul Colgan) Article, Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punctuation-mark-for-sarcasm-a-brilliant-idea/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punctuation-mark-for-sarcasm-a-brilliant-idea/#item2156 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:30:17 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-room-service-did-you-order-the-33-rubber-ducks/ So much for modern hotels being soulless. Below are some edited highlights from a survey of guest habits from Novotel released today. A guy’s girlfriend liked farms. So he asked for their room to be filled with hay. A guest in Australia’s great shiraz-producing Barossa Valley heard about the hotel’s signature red-wine spa treatment. He asked for a bath full of red wine in his room. colganp@thepunch.com.au (Paul Colgan) Article, Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-room-service-did-you-order-the-33-rubber-ducks/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-room-service-did-you-order-the-33-rubber-ducks/#item2118 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:12:18 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bob-dylan-has-made-this-a-christmas-classic/ Now that we’re through the 12 days of Christmas and it’s time to take down the tree, there’s one last chance to share this great version of an old 1950s Christmas song by Bob Dylan. It gets my vote for the Chrissie greatest hits albums from 2010 on. Punch music writer Dennis Atkins discussed Dylan’s Christmas album here and it has some excellent context to where this fits in Dylan’s work. colganp@thepunch.com.au (Paul Colgan) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bob-dylan-has-made-this-a-christmas-classic/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bob-dylan-has-made-this-a-christmas-classic/#item2107 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:39:01 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/worlds-tallest-building-cartoon/ News, photos and video on the Burj Khalifa. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Chris Kelly) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/worlds-tallest-building-cartoon/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/worlds-tallest-building-cartoon/#item2099 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:17:09 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/riding-with-lions-a-fresh-take-on-road-rules/ Normally government departments aren’t this creative. And while road safety is no laughing matter, try not to enjoy this ad from Vic Roads. It’s part of their campaign for changes to road safety rules. kippistl@news.com.au (Lucy Kippist) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/riding-with-lions-a-fresh-take-on-road-rules/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/riding-with-lions-a-fresh-take-on-road-rules/#item2092 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:35:42 +0000 You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter.