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Skenny's avatar

There are reports that the "First fully functioning toilet in space," had malfunctioned, sparking concerns related to "Dark Matter."

Juju's avatar

It was a faulty light bulb. Something silly like that … but NYT needed to distract from other things so, front page!

Chrystle Fiedler's avatar

Sounds like that episode of the Big Bang Theory!

Janet's avatar

LOLOLOL I read there was a treadmill too. I’m going to check with my husbands relative who works at NASA and is heading the modern spacesuit design team. Did those suits look more modern yesterday?

Karen Bandy's avatar

Howard Wallowitz invented the toilet, I saw it on Big Bang Theory 😉

TinaJo's avatar

Yes. I was going to say they should name it The Wallowitz.

smallvictories's avatar

Wait I thought this was just a poop joke.

Ginny Moore's avatar

First of all, I don’t like chocolate either! (Random but super important 😜). Also, I fell for yesterday’s C&C April fools - my jaw was on the floor and I was sick to my stomach for about 10 seconds when I thought Sleepy Joe was going to run in 2028 (I feel like an idiot). And then…I couldn’t believe your three headlines from today were real 🤦‍♀️. I don’t love April Fools pranks or any pranks. My kids know they take a huge risk of a hard slap as an automatic reaction if they jump out from behind a corner and try to scare me.

This is bad ass. Just. Like. You. 🤬🍑😘❤️

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

LingOL! SAME with the kneejerk slap reflex! Accompanied by a blood curdling scream, of course. ;)

Ginny Moore's avatar

Oh. Yes. Absolutely the scream. And quite possibly profanity. 😬

Joan Hirzel's avatar

Lol. I fell for the sleepy Joe one as well. And felt sick too! Til I realized that could not possibly happen!!! 🤣🤣🤣. Jenna’s list of jokes is hilarious but I am glad no one is pranking around here anymore. It was fun as a kid. Not so much as a grandma🤔

Karen Bauer's avatar

Haha I fell for the C & C post about Biden, too! The quotes sounded sooooo believable “he watches the news in the morning for up to 20 minutes….” 🤣🤦‍♀️

Eli's avatar
Apr 5Edited

Yes -- the hating chocolate I also saw as super important. Me too. Can we start a (very small) club? I'm already a member of IHateCilantro.

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

My daughter thinks cilantro tases like soap; I've heard this is not uncommon--is that you? I love cilantro, sorry. ;)

Eli's avatar

Yes, like soap and other bad things. And it smells like brown marmorated stink bugs. This hatred is common enough that at Chipotle they keep un-cilatro-ed rice in the back room for those who want it.

Roberta Stack's avatar

I’m not going to lie, I can’t get excited about all the space stuff. It’s a lot of taxpayer money that could be used elsewhere, homelessness and food insecurity for 2. They are doing “experiments” in space! What fun! I watched the moon landing in 1969 and I watched the Challenger explode, which was devastatingly sad. And my thought was, for what? I just don’t get it.

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Seriously! HOW is this a priority? It's like toe shortening surgery (which is an actual thing). Really? THAT'S where you're going to spend your money and your recovery time? The mind boggles.

Juju's avatar

I’d rather my money go to this than Somalians in MN … just saying

And people need to understand the ramifications of dominating space over our planet. Iran blocked Starlink so its citizens couldn’t communicate with the world. Some countries see the ability to use space to deploy weapons as viable. The faster we gain dominance the better and I see this as just one of many steps to get back to obtaining that dominance.

Curtis's avatar

I appreciate your sentiment, but taxpayer money is NEVER going to help homelessness or food insecurity. There are huge amounts of evidence to prove this.

Roberta Stack's avatar

I do know that but wishful thinking.

MaryAnn's avatar

Agree. For what indeed.

“Space: the final (uninhabitable) frontier”

Trish's avatar

I agree, all that money could be put to better use.

Martina Harman's avatar

I agree but the real $$ are spent on other stuff. The fake doesn’t cost that much.

Meddling Kid's avatar

I know you mentioned her, but I’m just happy that you got through this one without feeling the need to include that dopey picture of Katy Perry floating with the flower. She really is such a great example of the worst of us.

Vee's avatar

The last six years feels like a combination of April's Fools and Groundhog's Day. I often feel like I'm waiting for someone to slap me in the face with a giant floppy fish to wake me up from our clownworld reality. Thank God for Jenna and so many others that help to make us laugh our ways through the darkness!

Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

Honestly, WTF is wrong with our august “leaders” and their weird spouses? Noem shoots her dog and her husband has a creepy bimbo fetish? Do they think people wouldn’t find out? Or is the game to hope people find out and laugh as there are no consequences. How did she get elected governor of SD? NO ONE found those pictures until now?!

Also, how is it that the earth needs a magnetosphere and ozone layer to protect against solar radiation, but our astronauts can walk on the moon in a synthetic cloth, aluminum and rubber suit with no radiation shielding, come back to earth and not suffer any radiation effects?

John Wright's avatar

Hmm... obviously you don't invest in the same companies I do.... Rocket Lab, Intuitive Machines (LUNR), ARKX, ARKQ, SMR, NNE, ASTS, Firefly...

Yes Jenna, the space race is on again (just listen to Elon for five seconds).

Heather B's avatar

I thought I couldn't love you more but hating Disneyland, Hollywood, and Halloween was the cherry on top of my adoration. Soul sisters! As far as NASA ambitions, I wish they would concentrate on fixing Earth's problems before we dump more of them on the moon.

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

😊🩷👯‍♀️

🌱Nard🙏's avatar

“And—conveniently—it’s all going down just as Costco-sized crashed spaceships are being discovered and Congress is holding UFO Transparency Hearings and the White House is reportedly preparing to release “the UFO files” on its newly registered website, aliens.gov (but actually). Let’s just say the timing is… curious.”

Maybe we really ARE living in a simulation. If so, I want my $$ back.

John Wright's avatar

Absolutely! If this is a simulation, we've been ripped off and I want my money back!

Martina Harman's avatar

If it is real, why make the big deal out of laser technology for camera and sound to and from (no one has to remember to pause for a response because of the lag) and high resolution cameras? Wonder if AI can tell if a photo or video is AI faked. 🤔

SHug's avatar

Neo? Wakey, wakey Neo!

Have to wonder - what are all these distractions distracting from? Could it be the new asteroids doing a flyby this month?

2026 FC7 (April 2026): An airplane-sized asteroid (approx. 75 feet) passed at a safe distance.

2026 EP3 (March 25, 2026): A smaller, newly discovered asteroid passed within ~1.9 million miles.

2026 FM3 (Late March 2026): A car-sized asteroid passed near Earth; it is monitored, but no close approaches are expected in the near future.

Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS): A (another) oh-so-rare sun-grazing comet is making an extreme flyby in April, potentially bright enough to be seen.

Occam's avatar

There was no buildup, Jenna, because WE'RE NOT GOING TO THE MOON.

It's a freaking drive-by.

Wake me when we can redo the "actual" moon landing that we did in the 1960's.

Occam's avatar
Apr 2Edited

This is a highly entertaining read about whether we actually landed on the moon (not sure - you might have been how I found it originally, Jenna).

https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

I think another sub shared it here--not my discovery, but I've seen/read! :)

Laura Kasner's avatar

Another excellent piece:

https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/interview-with-bart-sibrel

Very long read but I don’t think anyone will need more convincing that the moon landing in 1969 was fake.

But then again, I am now of the mindset that everything is fake and gay. 🤣

Thank you Jenna for starting my day off LingOL. 😘❤️

Oh, and how I would love to be at your event in Austin. That’s my sissy’s and my birthday. It’s not an easy trip to Austin from NE Ohio. 😩

Elise Guidoux's avatar

Thanks for posting this, I was just about to go search for it and here it is. Yes! This sealed it for me. I was already on the fence, but this nails it. The landing was faked.

karen h's avatar

Good morning Jenna! Wish I could make your brownstone talk. I’m sure it will be hilarious.

As for the launch, I had the pleasure of meeting Victor Glover as well as knowing several Apollo astronauts, one who became a very good friend. Professed conspiracy theorist that I’ve become, I do believe these programs are real, not hoaxes.

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Thanks Karen! I don't necessarily think ALL of the programs are hoaxes... but do you think we landed on the Moon? :)

John Wright's avatar

I do! I watched it on TV live! {smile} It was a magical time. And at the time we believed everything Huntley, Brinkley and Cronkite said.

Anna Lafferty's avatar

LOL - Put some powder on top of the ceiling fan blades and wait for someone to turn it on. Respectfully, who hurt you? Also see #s 1 and 7 and then please, get help.

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

I mean CAN YOU IMAGINE???

Anna Lafferty's avatar

okay, so I come from a family where my brothers and cousins let the air out of the tires from every car at a stadium parking lot during a ballgame when they were teenagers - so, unfortunately, I can imagine!!!

Anna Lafferty's avatar

It was written up in the newspaper and one of my cousins carried a copy of the article in his jeans pocket so they all got busted by my aunt..

Karen Bandy's avatar

Wow! That is evil!!

Anna Lafferty's avatar

see my comment to Jenna!

Karen Bandy's avatar

Evidence! Your aunt must have watched a lot of Perry Mason 😉

Jpeach's avatar

I remember all the Gemini manned missions. Then Apollo and the Moon missions. Every takeoff was magical. Tracking reentry and splash down was dramatic. After all these years I do have doubts about actual moon landings. Then Challenger tragically exploded and the American zest for Space Travel exploded with it. I am optimistic that Space Exploration can be a thing again. Eliminate all the “Learing Centers” and it’s paid for.

John Wright's avatar

Space was absolutely magical in my childhood. We can't let the dream go. Once we do that, we are left with the depressing destruction of Earth.

CindyArizona's avatar

Jeff Childers, Coffee & COVID, had a good one yesterday about Joe Biden considering a 2028 run for POTUS. It had both my husband and I totally convinced and bewildered before I realized what day it was.

Karen Bandy's avatar

I really wouldn’t mind, I mean, who else? Kamala and the bartender?

Gwyneth's avatar

I intensely dislike practical jokes. As children, my brothers played the "salt in the sugar bowl" trick on me. They were suitably chastened by my mother when I spontaneously burst into tears at the unpleasantness.

FLGenX's avatar

Umm can we get back to Mr Noem’s fake boobs? WTF 😳 🤔

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

That whole story is... wild.

Armor of Light's avatar

How can anyone believe anything they see or hear anymore? Then even if it is true it is unbelievable…..

I think the past moon landing is unbelievable. They basically were able to land a tin can on the moon and walk on it wearing a zip lock bag???? So many questions…….