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Bob Morris's avatar

Headline: Coast Guard rescuers arrested for diving under the influencers.

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Dave Barry's avatar

Surrender your writing license, Bob.

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Bob Morris's avatar

I demand a field vocabulary test.

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Mary Larrick's avatar

🏆 Bob, you won the internet today!

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Bob Morris's avatar

Can I return it for cash?

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Mary Larrick's avatar

Sure! But I wouldn’t spend a lot on the postage…

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Jeffrey Getzin's avatar

Is “influenza” the plural of “influencer”?

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Marla Fisher's avatar

Funny~

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Jeffrey Getzin's avatar

Good one!!!

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Ash's avatar

Its funny how all these influencers seem to be more like influencees.

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Matt Crosby's avatar

Designer bikini: $200

Bottle of Clase Azul Gold: $350

Still milking out that Miss New Hampshire title 14 years later: Priceless

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Susie's avatar

Ohhh. Well done!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Natasha's avatar

I think a bikini from Kohl’s is $200…. Designer? Thousands.

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Matt Crosby's avatar

So, $200…per square centimeter. 😎

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Bill Dunn's avatar

Apparently, none of the influencers were at risk of sinking because of an overabundance of helium (inside their heads) and silicone (inside their, um, you know).

MerryCatholic.substack.com

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Marty Merzer's avatar

It is said that Teslas can float, assuming all the parts are still attached, so when yours catches fire, be sure to head for the nearest lake. AI also shares this helpful information: “However, it's important to note that while Teslas can float, they are not designed for prolonged or deep-water use, and driving in water is not recommended.”

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Dave Barry's avatar

Good to know!

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George Gillson's avatar

Who among us didn't pilfer metallic sodium from the chemistry lab in high school and toss it in a toilet bowl to see what would happen? Lithium is snuggled in, just one floor straight above Sodium in the Periodic Table, so if a Tesla already full of flaming Lithium wound up in the water, I feel like that would be sub-optimal. Nevertheless, The Flaming Teslas might be an OK name for a band.

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Jeff Nathan's avatar

Really happy the boat didn’t have electric batteries and there weren’t sharks in the water. According to Trump, those influencers would have had a tough choice to make.

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Just Lil Ole Me's avatar

That picture sure looks Photoshopped. I think the yacht just committed suicide by driving its bow into the sand. I don’t blame it—I’d be embarrassed too.

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Dave Barry's avatar

I believe that's the stern.

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Just Lil Ole Me's avatar

YIKES! I’ve been unmasked as a peasant who doesn’t know her yachts!

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Dave Barry's avatar

I could be wrong! I often am.

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Just Lil Ole Me's avatar

I have a sinking feeling that you’re right.

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Bill Dunn's avatar

It does look Photoshopped, doesn't it?

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Linda OConnor's avatar

This almost heartbreaking story actually made it all the way up here to Atlanta. When I think of the potential of the near disaster, I yawn and apply lipstick. No gloss for me!

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meg's avatar

If not for the journalism of this journalist (Mr. Barry) I would never have even known about world shaking event.

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MLMinET's avatar

Like the viagra for sale at the car wash. He’s our on-the-ground reporter in Miami, for sure.

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Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

Only in this vapid time in world history would such a thing as a "social media influencer" even exist.

Now, get off of my lawn!

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WJ Hayes's avatar

To be fair to Ms. Hartley, had Winston Churchill been on a vessel sinking in 9 feet of water, he too, would have grabbed the nearest bottle of booze.

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Richgard's avatar

This brings to mind the rather brutal if funny response someone made to Shaquille O’Neill when he asked the Internet what to name his new yacht.

Call it the Free Throw. Then you’ll never sink it.

Ouch, especially if Mr. O’Neill ever meets this person?

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Kerry Batchelder's avatar

Why are there no influencers for mid-70’s males ??? Makes me want to be more Scottish….

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Chris Gay's avatar

They're all airheads, so they would have floated.

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Lynne Larkin's avatar

(*Gets in car, drives to Miami, dives into Bay and plunders the rest of the influencer booty. Wait, “booty” has changed since pirating times. I mean tequila, champagne and lip gloss, not anything you might twerk.*)

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Mary Larrick's avatar

We need a ROFLMAO button for Substack. In the meantime, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Lynne Larkin's avatar

Too kind, 😘

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wiredog's avatar

" Cars, as a general rule, do not float. "

Old air cooled VW Bugs do if they aren't rusted out. But they also are more robust in most every way than a Lamborghini and cost less, too.

I will admit, however, that an old Bug, stock, will only do about 1/4 the top speed of a Lamborghini. If the Bug is heading down a steep hill with a significant tailwind. Which I guess is why Sonny Crockett didn't drive one.

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Gregory Dunn's avatar

Dead battery in one of those old VWs? No problem! Put it in neutral, get out. Start pushing it while holding the steering wheel. Once it’s rolling, hop in, put it in gear, pop the clutch.

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wiredog's avatar

Works even better if you push it backwards. I once push-started a 65 bug backwards uphill.

Still have my copy of "How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step By Step Procedures For The Compleat Idiot" which is the best car repair book ever.

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Pam Birkenfeld's avatar

I once made a trip from Wisconsin to California and back in a VW bug that had that problem! It was tough, we had to always park on hills. Not a problem in San Francisco!

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STMurray's avatar

And if you were jonesing for a sports car, you could get a Karman Ghia.

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Stephen Walker's avatar

If Ted Kennedy had been driving one of those, he’d have probably become President.

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LKN's avatar

On a slightly almost related note, is this why a VW Bug was sunk in a pond beside the school of music I attended? Surely an unintended consequence of a scientific experiment?

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