Mrs. Picken’s Body Count

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    Pubic Enemy: Fear Of A Curly Planet

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    Thig’s latest attempt at portraiture has left me questioning both hygiene and intent. What was handed in looks less like a drawing and more like the aftermath of a clogged drain. Imagine a ball of public restroom hair with two startled eyes Sharpied onto it. That is the “face” your child has submitted for grading. Bless their confused heart, but this belongs in the museum of mistakes.

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  • REMEMBERING

    Darla Fangtasy Jean

    Darla Fangtasy Jean died Friday on a church mission trip to Panama City Beach. The moment she stepped off the church bus into the noon sun, she erupted like a frog that swallowed dynamite in a Home Depot bucket sloshing with premium gasoline. She had only just renounced her long devotion to vampirism, declaring herself…

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  • REMEMBERING

    Duck Tails

    Ed Lane sunk straight to heaven on Sunday afternoon after his green jon boat was capsized by an irate Southern Buffleheaded Duck while he was catfishing without a license

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  • REMEMBERING

    Common Sense

    Common American Sense passed away this week, last seen clutching a Value Meal in the fluorescent glow of a gas station “deli.” Though it once thrived on gardens, neighbors, and paychecks that covered emergencies, Common Sense fell into decline after being force-fed Dollar Menu dinners and told to wait six weeks for an insurance approval…

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  • I spend $12,000 a year on cobwebbing and strobe lights. The kids call me “Queen of Scream.” Last year my electric bill was $840 in October alone. If you’re not prepared to go bankrupt, maybe you don’t DESERVE Halloween.
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  • My yard has 72 animatronics, 9 fog machines, and a blood fountain synced to the Stranger Things soundtrack. If your toddler cries that’s YOUR fault for not teaching courage. This is AMERICA and I will exercise my right to traumatize.
    Read more: Darren Boodad
  • Why does everybody decorate a month early??? I drove home from Dollar General and thought the rapture hit cause every lawn got ghosts and skeletons already. ITS SEPTEMBER. Can’t yall let Labor Day COOL OFF before u summon demons???
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  • Local Model:

    Pat Myaz

    Her first big break came not with Pillow Sins but at the Speedee Mart in Spencer, Nebraska, where she learned the art of restocking Slim Jims and dodging men who thought “goth” meant “up for grabs.” With enough shifts mislabeled as “part time,” she scraped together $74.99 for a Glamour Shots session at the Norfolk…

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    Tammy LeCroix

    She took a vow early—not of silence but of service—and became a chaplain aboard a naval vessel full of seamen. For decades she gave sermons in the stern and counsel in the bow, before realizing that her pension would barely buy enough Vienna sausages to last a season

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    Misty Muffington

    Misty Muffington (born Mistella Jean Muffington) first took her breaths in the back of a borrowed El Camino during the Possum Trot County Pig Roast of 1977. Legend has it her first cry synced perfectly with a fiddle solo of “Rocky Top,” ensuring her future as a local folk tale wrapped in hosiery.

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