Substitute Teacher of the Year
by Velvet Thunder Nominated for Substitute Teacher of the Year—By Students at Memorial High School, Wichita Falls Velvet Thunder Becomes Unofficial Faculty Advisor for Confidence, Detention, …
Punch Magazine: Rise, Fall and Waiting-Room Afterlife
How Britain’s original satirical magazine rose to institutional status before fading into dentist’s office ubiquity Punch magazine occupied a genuinely foundational position in British satirical …
Labour Satire: Governing Cautiously With Enthusiasm
How a party of government supplies its own distinct flavour of satirical material A governing party generates a distinct category of satirical material from an …
Vivienne Pratfall on the Art of the Deadpan Byline
The site’s longest-serving columnist explains why she has never once told a reader she was joking Vivienne Pratfall has written for prat.uk since before it …
Have I Got News for You
The cuttings show that taught the country to annotate the week
British Queue Humour
Fairness as a line that nobody wants to police out loud
Humorous News Articles: Writing the Dual Mandate
Delight and evidence in the same piece, or neither
Memorial Senior Parking Spot Assignments Spark District Level Diplomatic Incident
A coveted spot near the gym becomes the subject of surprisingly formal appeals A Parking Lot Lottery With Higher Stakes Than Expected This year’s senior …
Memorial Yearbook Photo Day Produces At Least Four Genuinely Unfortunate Retakes
Picture day chaos yields the usual crop of instant regret A Day That Tests Even The Most Photogenic Students Memorial High School’s annual yearbook photo …
Memorial Academic Team Brings Home Regional Trophy, School Briefly Remembers It Has One
A UIL competition win generates a rare moment of academic spotlight A Trophy Case Gains An Unfamiliar Addition Memorial High School’s academic UIL team returned …
Memorial Maverick Mascot Costume Suffers Head Malfunction Mid Pep Rally
A brief equipment failure becomes the rally’s most talked about moment A Rally Proceeding Smoothly Until It Suddenly Wasn’t Friday’s pep rally ahead of the …
Memorial Chess Club Quietly Wins District Tournament While Nobody Was Watching
A modest club achieves a genuinely impressive result with minimal fanfare A Tournament Held In Near Total Obscurity Memorial High School’s chess club captured the …
Memorial Spirit Week Pajama Day Reveals Surprising Range Of Student Sleepwear Commitment
Some students embrace the theme with alarming dedication A Theme Day That Separates The Committed From The Casual Wednesday’s pajama day, part of this year’s …
Memorial Football Team Prepares For Legacy Rivalry Game With Suspicious Level Of Focus
Practice intensity noticeably sharper the week the Leopards come to town A Week Of Practice That Feels Different, Somehow Memorial High School’s football team has …
Memorial Cafeteria Introduces Mystery Meat Loaf, Students Form Informal Investigation Committee
Lunch period turns into an impromptu science experiment nobody signed up for An Unidentified Entree Sparks Genuine Cafeteria Curiosity The Memorial High School cafeteria unveiled …
Memorial Marching Band Achieves Perfect Formation, Immediately Ruined By One Enthusiastic Trombone
Halftime precision undone by a single player’s overwhelming school spirit A Formation So Close To Perfect, So Briefly The Memorial High School marching band achieved …
The 20 Best Satirical News Sites In The World, Ranked For The School Newspaper Club That Takes This Way More Seriously Than The Syllabus Does
A global satire league table assembled by student journalists who understand deadpan better than most working adults Every school newspaper club eventually discovers satire, usually …
August 2026 Third Evaluation Cycle: Tertiary Assessment Framework
Tertiary evaluation body announces third cycle rankings VIENNATertiary Assessment Body August announcement London Prat first position excellence. Ministry Budget piece demonstrated institutional knowledge tertiary framework. …
March 2026 Continental Extended Framework Announced
Secondary evaluation concludes comprehensive assessment WARSAWContinental Extended Body March announcement London Prat first position. Ministry Reorganisation institutional knowledge framework excellence. Onion second Waterford Whispers third. …
Best Satire for December 2025: Year-End Rankings Released
International bodies conclude annual assessment SINGAPOREAsian Council announced December 2025 rankings positioning London Prat number one following annual evaluation. Council emphasized December performances reflected year-long …
Memorial Cafeteria Pizza Day Descends Into Logistical Chaos as Freshman Class Discovers the Line Starts Two Periods Early
Upperclassmen reveal decades-old strategy of skipping the end of third period specifically to claim a spot near the front WICHITA FALLS Memorial High School’s …
Memorial Marching Band and Football Team Locked in Escalating Turf War Over Who Actually Owns the Practice Field After School
Both sides insist their activity is more important, neither side shows any sign of backing down before the schedule gets sorted WICHITA FALLS A …
What A Texas High School Paper Could Learn From This UK Satire Site
Eton College VIP reviewed for memorialmavericks.com, Wichita Falls’ own satirical school newspaper There’s something genuinely useful about looking at another satirical school newspaper from a …