Dave Barry's Year in Review 2014

Miami Herald ^ | 24 Dec 2014 | Dave Barry

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It was a year of mysteries. To list some of the more baffling ones:

• A huge airliner simply vanished, and to this day nobody has any idea what happened to it, despite literally thousands of hours of intensive speculation on CNN.

• Millions of Americans suddenly decided to make videos of themselves having ice water poured on their heads. Remember? There were rumors that this had something to do with charity, but for most of us, the connection was never clear. All we knew was that, for a while there, every time we turned on the TV, there was a local newscaster or Gwyneth Paltrow or Kermit the Frog or some random individual soaking wet and shivering. This mysterious phenomenon ended as suddenly as it started, but not before uncounted trillions of American brain cells died of frostbite.

• An intruder jumped the White House fence and, inexplicably, managed to run into the White House through the unlocked front door. Most of us had assumed that anybody attempting this would instantly be converted to a bullet-ridden pile of smoking carbon by snipers, lasers, drones, ninjas, etc., but it turned out that, for some mysterious reason, the White House had effectively the same level of anti-penetration security as a Dunkin’ Donuts.

• LeBron James deliberately moved to Cleveland.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article4940373.html#storylink=cpy

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[hometoroost]

"On the domestic front, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, who oversaw the rollout of Obamacare, resigns from the cabinet to take a position overseeing email storage for the Internal Revenue Service."

"Also resigning from the government is White House press spokesperson Jay Carney, who plans to pursue a career as a Magic 8-Ball specializing in 'Reply hazy try again.'"

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

That was hilarious.

[onyx]

Great stuff! Month by month!
B T T T ! ! ! ©

[Vinnie]

Funny

[cgbg]

Dunkin Donuts really needs to up their security level. :-)

[Caipirabob]

A huge airliner simply vanished, and to this day nobody has any idea what happened to it, despite literally thousands of hours of intensive speculation on CNN.

It's right next to the money from obama's "stimulus package".

[BBB333]

“...In the celebrity social event of the year, George Clooney marries Amal Alamuddin in what it is believed to be one of the most elaborate and expensive weddings ever held in a Chuck E. Cheese. Sources describe it as “like a fairy tale, until Anna Wintour threw up on Matt Damon in the ball pit.”

Great stuff.

[Skooz]

Barry is our generation’s Mark Twain or Will Rogers.

An American treasure.

[ExCTCitizen]

Dave Barry is funny... I love reading him and I love it when he wrote: ‘GM announces a recall of 425,000 Fords.’

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

LOL! Thanks for posting.

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It’s happened again: The newspaper has pulled the links again.

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