The Boston Phoenix
2000

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Best joke site

joke site A cyberspace stomping ground for Henny Youngman wanna-bes, jokes.com is distinguished by its massive database of one-liners, knee-slappers, and Top 10 lists. Members can get a "Joke du Jour" mailed directly to their e?mail accounts, but anyone can search the online collection for "Lawyer," "Redneck," and, of course, "Blonde" jokes to impress co-workers. We found the collection of "Your Mama" quips to be lacking, but "Hondo's Headline News" is virtually guaranteed to provide laughs. Boasting actual news items from the Reuters news service, Hondo's uncovers earth-shattering stories like "Bar Patron Armed with Fish Bowl Thwarts Robbers" and "Snoring Makes You Stupid."

Runner-up the Onion bills itself as "America's Finest News Source," and a quick glance through recent headlines uncovered items on Napster, George W. Bush, and the Congolese civil war. But the Onion is actually one of America's finest satirical newspapers - both online and off - and it viciously skewers contemporary issues with articles that are at once ridiculous ("Eighth-Grader Drinks at Twelfth-Grade Level") and oddly illuminating ("Kid Rock Starves to Death: MP3 Piracy Blamed").

http://www.Jokes.com

http://www.TheOnion.com

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