If terrorists targeted Kansas’ ball of twine

The story about a Georgia kangaroo farm and an Alabama petting zoo being listed among the Department of Homeland Security’s potential terrorist targets only sounded like fake news. But it inspired the fake news Web site Ridiculopathy.com to come up with a story headlined “Funding Needed to Protect 2nd Largest Ball of Twine from Terrorists,” complete with this fake quote from Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard: “How would you feel if the freedom-haters scored another one for their side by unraveling what took one bored Kansan so many years to roll up? Surely we can set aside Homeland Security moneys to effectively protect America’s penultimate twine sphere.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman

10 Comments

  1. steve
    Posted July 16, 2006 at 12:16 am | Permalink

    Kansas; The Punchline State!

  2. Tony
    Posted July 16, 2006 at 2:30 am | Permalink

    Kansas has a big ball of twine?

    Who da thunk it?

  3. J M Walker
    Posted July 16, 2006 at 9:07 am | Permalink

    I can see it now:

    “Kansas entwined in terrorist exploded twine. Twine twins to talk to Todd Tiahrt tomorrow.”

  4. steve
    Posted July 16, 2006 at 11:12 am | Permalink

    Todd, get to work and defend our State heritage!

  5. steve
    Posted July 16, 2006 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    Ridicule me if you must, but my greatest nightmare is that AlQueda hill hijack “Big Brutus” and plow a path of carnage and destruction through our great state!

  6. J M Walker
    Posted July 16, 2006 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

    steve,He’ll head east, towards Missouri. Probably take out Liberal, and maybe chicken mary’s on the way.

  7. GaryC.
    Posted July 16, 2006 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

    Walker are you talking about Big Brutus? Because liberal is on the complete other side of the state in the southwest area. NOT the southeast area!!!

    Are you voting Republican?

  8. steve
    Posted July 16, 2006 at 12:55 pm | Permalink

    I’m sure Todd has contigency plans to call out fighter jets to stop the carnage.

  9. J M Walker
    Posted July 16, 2006 at 1:00 pm | Permalink

    GaryC,Na, just an independant who lost his way.

  10. raptor
    Posted July 17, 2006 at 11:21 am | Permalink

    Having recently been to see the ball of twine, I can attest that it is an icon worth fighting for. Well…maybe not. It certainly fills the bill of:

    Kansas, as corny as you think.