The Cockerel Brief
2020:
Rooster fined 166 euros for early morning crowing in Italian town.
1474:
Rooster questioned for laying egg, perhaps at the behest of Satan.
May 10, 2025
2020:
Rooster fined 166 euros for early morning crowing in Italian town.
1474:
Rooster questioned for laying egg, perhaps at the behest of Satan.
2020:
Exoplanet revealed to be nothing but a large cloud of dust.
1903:
Supposed irrigation canals on Mars are merely optical illusions.
2020:
A fifty-pence piece celebrates Brexit without Oxford’s punctuation mark.
1897:
A monument remembers the Battle of Trenton sans punctuation.
2019:
Seal helps stop an alleged international drug gang.
1918:
Dog bites man, stops robbery.
2019:
Radical life extensionists trust science to cure death.
1786:
A doctor mines the habits of history’s long-lived for tips.
2019:
Voters unable to buy milkshakes to throw at Nigel Farage.
1885:
Voters throw rotten eggs at Queen Victoria’s son-in-law.
2019:
Canadian prime minister eats chocolate, must apologize.
1896:
Canadian members of Parliament work late, sing songs, throw paper.
2019:
Thieves steal water from Canadian icebergs.
c. 96:
Rome steels itself for the possibility of “puncturers.”
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