[Click to view comic: 'CC147: Media Reports Touch Raw Nerves in Investigation']

What? Today 10/10 or today the day you write the strip?

And only the ONE background background you show? There are a few.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

I'd like to kick things off with a little blatant disregard for the rules, judging that it's more important to follow my muse. Don't worry, I don't expect to win or anything.

[Click to view comic: 'Rhetoric Muted to Gain Votes (Washington Post headline)']

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

[Click to view comic: 'Study Sees Cancer Survival in a More Optimistic Light']

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[Click to view comic: 'CCC147: Terror 'Chatter' On Rise (CNN.com, oct 10)']

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exit, pursued by a bear

The title of my previous entry, by the way, was from nytimes.com, as listed on news.google.com

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[Click to view comic: 'CC 147 : Dow Ends Up 248; Nasdaq Rises 49 (AP, Oct 10)']

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exit, pursued by a bear

Not even close to rules compliant. I need a different headline.
[Click to view comic: 'Bathtub Suicide Cult Chief Released']

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

[Click to view comic: 'Old Age, Illness Up Urination Frequency at Night']
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=healthnews&StoryID=1562135

OH! Left hand POSITION! Not character. Fuck it. I'm going to bed.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

Invasive D.C. Police Searches Alleged

Seemingly tailor-made for this contest. The only problem is that I can't imagine writing a comic that would be funnier or more stupid than the events described in the article itself.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

The latest from CNET news:

[Click to view comic: 'Hollywood Chases Down Campus Pirates']
Ahrr, ye'll never catch me, ye scurvy wenches!

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"There's no point in beating a dead horse ... except, of course, for the pure joy of it." - A. Whitney Brown

from The Economist (Unfortunately, the entire headline wouldn't fit in the title bar.)
[Click to view comic: 'CC 147: Talking like Mugabe']

from The Wall Street Journal[/i]
[Click to view comic: 'CC:GM Offers New Payment Plans Amid Signs of Slowed US Sales']
[Click to view comic: 'CC 147:Fur Flies in Critter Crowd Over Fate of Feral Felines']
[Click to view comic: 'CC 147: Jury Awards $2.2 Billion To Victim of Diluted Drugs']

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"Old" is the old new.

[Click to view comic: 'w/o Warning - Senate passes war resolution (CNN.com)']
[Click to view comic: 'w/o Warning - Dozens missing in Chechnya blast (CNN.com)']
[Click to view comic: 'w/o Warning - Moussaoui gag order request denied (CNN.com)']

[u]I realize this doesn't fit the parameters of the contest, but...[/u]

[Click to view comic: 'w/o Warning - Storm watches posted as Kyle advances(CNN.com)']

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The dreams that stuff is made of.

[Click to view comic: 'CC 147: Police shoot dead bank robber (news.com.au, oct 10)']

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exit, pursued by a bear

[quote]Invasive D.C. Police Searches Alleged

Seemingly tailor-made for this contest. The only problem is that I can't imagine writing a comic that would be funnier or more stupid than the events described in the article itself.[/quote]I don't know if it's funnier, but I'll do the obvious.

[Click to view comic: 'Invasive D.C. Police Searches Alleged']

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[Click to view comic: 'Fear Comes to Pr. William (Wash. Post, Oct. 11)']

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[Click to view comic: 'Police Intensify Hunt for Sniper']

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Bitchy Sauce Girl?

But I thought you said we may use "any real news source."

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What others say about boorite!

[Click to view comic: 'CC 147: BUSH GRANTED POWER TO STRIKE IRAQ']
[Click to view comic: 'CC 147: BUSH GIVEN AUTHORITY TO ATTACK']

...Er, sorry about the caps in the titles. For some weird reason I thought everyone else was doing it. :-(

I didn't see any rules that said we had to be rules-compliant. So I ripped off Devin's headline...

[Click to view comic: 'CC 147: Bush Given Authority to Attack']

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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002

Damn. You beat me to it.

I'm itchin' for a good old-fashioned rule-breaking contest winner. And only partly because it's my only chance of winning.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,362637,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,361747,00.html

The dates on the articles are a few days old, but the headlines are still hanging around on the website today.

[Click to view comic: 'CC147: Five Things We Know About the D.C.-Area Sniper (Time)']
[Click to view comic: 'CC147: Maryland Manhunt: What the Bullets Say (Time)']

I'm going to the movies tonight. Wish me luck.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

[Click to view comic: 'CC147: Death sentence for Japan gas maker']

And I'm just getting warmed up!

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My love for you is like diarrhea, I just can't hold it in. -Weird Al Yankovic

[Click to view comic: 'The Washington Sniper']

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"Life Sucks, Then you Die. The bit inbetween isnt very funny either"

[Click to view comic: 'Ghosts Put N.J. Town in High Spirits (CNN.com, Oct. 11)']

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"Nothing expresses the brutal grandeur of rectal polyps and anal fistulae quite like the mother-tongue of Goethe."