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Live Edition 100% Satire · Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · 58 stories live

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Issue · Sep 8
Money / Filed under: Aug 12
01

Ramona’s Emergency Fund Had One Job

Ramona Tisdale opened an emergency fund with $1,000 and a definition. The definition did not survive the year.

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Aging / Filed under: Aug 11
02

Her Husband Was the Church Organist

A woman in Spokane spent fifty-one years in the third pew. Now she climbs the loft stairs on Tuesdays and unlocks the bench with her husband's key.

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Work / Filed under: Aug 10
03

For twenty-three years, he has been the only person in America still making a part for a dryer that stopped being manufactured in 1978.

A retired machinist in Missoula has, for twenty-three years, been the only person in the country still making one small brass gear for a clothes dryer that stopped being manufactured in 1978. He makes them in…

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Wattalife Daily · Satire Sample · 7:02 AM
From: The Wattalife Team
A man expensed his therapy as "professional development." It worked.

Good morning. It's a Tuesday, which means somewhere out there, a person is right now justifying a purchase they cannot afford with a logic they cannot defend.

This morning's offender: a project manager in Austin who put twelve weeks of therapy on his corporate card under "leadership coaching." Finance approved it. His therapist had no idea.

Today's lesson in the great American workplace: the line between a perk and a heist is mostly just confidence...

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