2022-12-22 09:33
decamped, ceased to be here, gone to join Another Site Immortal…
Due to a number of reasons but largely down to WordPress.com reducing functionality options for free sites, WWNews… Read More
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2022-05-13 20:34
Just a little test of an idea of a concept – please ignore
The Woodshed Read More
2022-01-30 18:36
A new opinion poll released by a local tv station shows beleaguered Kiwi PM Jacinda has less popular support among the people than Soviet leader Josef Stalin once did.
Results just in… Read More
2022-01-13 20:02
2021-12-28 21:59
We’ve put together a version that will – allegedly – work on phones, tablets and carrier pigeons with the Gates chip implant. No pictures but.
START QUIZ Read More
2021-12-28 18:46
The Year Summed Up In 13 Questions
You’ll find one of those in the pages of the Herlad or the DomPost. Not here, we just made some stuff up. (There have been some technical is… Read More
2021-12-27 20:15
One two … another Read More
2021-12-27 20:11
There were technical issues with the earlier posting – this may be down to actual technical issues or simply WWN’s in-house publishing team not reading the manual.
For some re… Read More
2021-12-27 07:13
The Great WWN End of Year quiz
As 2021 crawls to a close, it’s time to look back, reflect on what might have been, what shouldn’t have been and just how annoying it… Read More
2021-12-21 20:45
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2021-11-21 07:24
(Actual number of supporters, not percentage polled.) Read More
2021-10-05 09:12
2021-09-25 05:11
The breaking news cupboard is bare. Luckily we found a tweet. In the tweet, a twitter user calling themselves Dan Germane says “there is no journalism any more – just idiot… Read More
2021-08-24 07:10
Beleaguered Kiwi Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern has suspended her daily Covid update press conferences, citing communication issues.
“It’s come to my attention that the lang… Read More
2021-03-27 20:10
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2021-03-14 10:01
Nation’s #1 non-journalist miffed, entire country other Newstalk hacks rage in support Read More
2021-03-14 10:01
Nation’s #1 non-journalist miffed, entire country other Newstalk hacks rage in support Read More
2021-02-23 22:32
2021-01-01 08:12
Our researchers have painstakingly scoured the world’s news sites, sifted through the social media dross and even listened to Jim Mora to put together an entertaining quiz looking… Read More
2020-12-07 20:57
Over 1 million poll responses found in dumpster behind house once owned by now-dead Labour voter
Paul Goldsmith denies involvement in counting
Mike Hosking says he has heard eviden… Read More
2020-10-13 09:56
IN OTHER NEWS – BOTTLE STORES REPORT RUN ON CHARDONNAY Read More
2020-09-30 09:40
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2020-07-26 08:11
Former National MP turned independent candidate Jami-Lee Ross – who now heads the Advance New Zealand party – has announced his party would merge with the [even more (if that&rs&helli…Read More
2020-07-25 00:34
It is election year, after all… Read More
2020-07-23 23:14
Southland District Mayor Gary Tong said on RNZ: “[Peters’] intention was a local shareholding is what I understand, but I’m hearing from down there that’s not g… Read More
2020-07-20 09:39
2020-07-16 09:27
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The new leader of the National Party, [insert name here], has promised a new shadow cabinet line-up in very short order, just a few hours after being elected… Read More
2020-07-15 21:34
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2020-06-22 01:03
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2020-04-08 10:00
In an earlier article covering bold, new and innovative ideation among businesses affected by the Covid-19 crisis, WWNews reported that several distilleries and breweries around New Zealand… Read More
2020-04-06 10:36
Despite the Prime Minister’s continued assurances that the current Alert Level 4 is it, the number one dead-set top level with no other more important levels just sitting around in cas… Read More
2020-03-22 04:40
We live in troubled times. Obviously not for real, as Troubled Times isn’t an actual place – not even on Google Maps:
But seriously, if we’re to get through our current di… Read More
2020-03-18 09:19
As with any plague of Biblical proportions, it’s important to be able to sort the facts from the articles. The following seven paragraphs will be no help at all.
Where did Covid-19 com… Read More
2019-04-21 10:09
Famed film producer and Wellington icon Sir Peter Jackson has revealed plans for a revamp of the highly popular Aussie movie The Castle, it was announced by sources close to the Oscar-winne… Read More
2018-05-13 11:38
Today, New Zealanders have awoken to news of the passing of a pallid, tasteless, half-baked, sugary indulgence, [No, not Duncan Garner. Ed] as the Girl Guide Association has decided their ic… Read More
2018-05-13 11:34
Today, New Zealanders have awoken to news of the passing of a pallid, tasteless, half-baked, sugary indulgence, [No, not Duncan Garner. Ed] as the Girl Guide Association has decided the icon… Read More
2018-05-01 03:32
Fresh cracks are beginning to appear in the footpath outside 69A Credibility Avenue, the home of the most popular of Mediawork’s stable of TV networks, TV3.
TV3, now known as somethin… Read More
2018-05-01 03:30
The Weakly Whirled News has a new look, and it’s the result of some intensive research, supported by comments on social media.
“You site sucks mayk it better” one expert c… Read More
2018-02-14 20:34
This document was found, according to popular legend, on the recovery disk of an ancient Amstrad PPC640 that was traded in for a complete set of spokely-dokelies – front and rear &ndas&hell…Read More
2018-01-10 01:50
As reported by the Daily Telegraph. Some names have been changed.
* Even before his birth, the future leader of North Korea the USA was triggering miracles. Official biographers say h… Read More
2018-01-02 21:56
With some much information flooding in these days, it’s often hard to know just what to read and, more importantly, what to trust.
As a public service, the Weakly Whirled News offers&n&hell…Read More
2017-12-15 04:23
President Trump has signed an executive order moving the International Dateline thousand of miles to the east so Americans can be first up in the morning.
Currently running in a zigzaggedly… Read More
2017-10-24 03:40
The story so far:
(As posted on Facebook by Eva Allan.)
There’s one mince and cheese pie left in the shop and it costs $5
Bill has $4.50
Jacinda has $3.70
Winston has 70c
James has 60c… Read More
2017-07-14 04:34
Since its invention in 1962 by three North Korean child prodigies called Kim, the Internet has grown from a useful electronic network to an electronic network that connects more than 18 bil… Read More
2017-03-25 05:01
Just a few of the tweeters expressing outrage at potential lack of outrage
A series of cave-ins at government-owned outrage mines in China’s Bàoxíng Province has put prod… Read More
2017-03-12 21:15
An epic blockbuster celebrating the life of the most powerful and charismatic world leader to ever walk upon this earth has been shelved, to make way for a movie based on the exploits of US… Read More
2017-02-23 07:29
New Zealand aims to be the most existible country in the world in just over a decade, the country’s newest Prime Minister, Bill English, announced today.
PM’s announcement u… Read More
2016-12-29 11:13
Angry at what it says are unjustified character attacks and baseless accusations, beleaguered year 2016 has instructed one of the country’s top defamation lawyers to initiate legal pro… Read More
2016-12-08 07:31
When New Zealand’s newest Minister of Finance receives the embossed certificate, name badge and team shirt from the Governor General next week, he’ll join a select group. Well, t… Read More
2016-12-06 01:56
Monday’s shock announcement that New Zealand’s Prime Minister, John Keys, would stand down from the plucky island nation’s top job forthwith came as a shock on Monda… Read More
2016-11-12 20:35
(With the assistance of search ‘n’ replace.)
In ancient Greece there were two brothers named Epimetheus and Prometheus. They upset the gods and annoyed the most powerful of all G… Read More
2016-09-16 21:39
Busy “Breakfast” co-host Jack Tame has joined WWNews
I remember the first time I ever wrote a puff piece for the Weakly World News. I was three at the time – some mi… Read More
2016-08-05 00:59
Chief’s sponsor’s rep Margaret Comer, who did actually condone mistreatment of one woman, which is why she had to desperately backtrack.
“I feel terrible that my poor choic… Read More
2016-07-30 05:26
The prospect of Donald Trump as President of the world’s largest failed social experiment might be a depressing thought for many, but John Keys, New Zealand’s most popular Prime… Read More
2016-07-23 23:15
I was surprised to hear on RNZ’s Week In Parliament programme this morning that TVNZ no longer considers itself to be a national broadcaster.
That’s in light of its submissions t… Read More
2016-07-23 01:50
A Woodville man, exasperated by continued reports of outrage in the media, has announced he will no longer take any notice of people professing to be outraged at things that are not really w… Read More
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