Donald Trump's big fan 'fail' makes top 10 funniest of year

Hello again, fellow news consumers.

Yes, it's that time of year again. And when I say that, I'm not like those winter season TV ads compelling you to open your wallet and buy something.

It's merely time for the annual roundup of funny and bizarre news.

I realize that since November 2008, many of you have had little to chuckle about.

But as the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine. So please let your mind forget the frustration for a few minutes and enjoy yourself with these top 10 funniest stories of 2015:

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Trump flowers

We all know that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is looking to construct a giant wall on the border to stop unwelcome visitors from coming into the country.

But on one glorious September morning, it took a lot less than that to preclude an uninvited protester from delivering a special "gift" to him.

Stephanie Mercades attempted to deliver hundreds of yellow dahlias, the national flower of Mexico, to the billionaire businessman at his office as part of a protest of Trump's policies on illegal immigration.

"She was carrying 1,000 flowers, each with a note from a Latin immigrant sarcastically thanking Trump for his views on immigration," TMZ reported.

But it wasn't a giant border wall that stopped her. It wasn't even security. It was the revolving door that Mercades had a serious problem with, as she ended up dropping the flowers on the ground.

"Can someone help me pick up the flowers?" the woman cried, asking for help from onlookers.

"It looks like something Lucy Ricardo would do," TMZ noted.

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Security then got involved, picking up the flowers and putting them in a clear, plastic trash bag.

"Can I keep the flowers?" Mercades asked.

"No," replied a security guard.

"Why can't I keep the flowers?" she wondered aloud.

"I'm throwing them away," the guard told her, as he dragged the bag of flowers down the street.

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One bloom was left on the sidewalk, and that's when a second security guard picked it up and handed it to the lone protester, saying, "You can keep this one."

Potty humor

In the classic comedy film "The Naked Gun," actor Leslie Nielsen causes a roar of laughter when he leaves a news conference with his microphone still on, allowing everyone to hear every drop of action when he goes to the restroom.

Now, in a case of life imitating art, Mayor Dale Ross of Georgetown, Texas, made the same mistake as he excused himself from an April 28 council meeting for a quick bathroom break.

Then, as Councilwoman Rachael Jonrowe was speaking during Ross' visit to the men's room, suddenly the whole building echoed with the watery cascade of Ross going No. 1, followed by an electronically amplified flushing sound reverberating through the speakers.

Needless to say, Ms. Jonrowe, who had been involved in serious discussion about antibiotic resistance, began cracking up when she initially heard the councilman doing his business, and then totally lost it when the flushing began.

The New York Daily News noted, "Other politicians are equally amused as Ross, who appeared not to have washed his hands, later returns to this chair."

The YouTube video documenting the event has collected more than 5 million views, with a variety of comments, including:

• "The hilarious part is that they are talking about controlling diseases when the major doesn't even wash his hands after a bathroom break!"

• "Why didn't he have diarrhea? I would die laughing."

The funniest 'Jeopardy' response in history

"Jeopardy" was a gold mine for comedy in 2015. A news producer for "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio became a viral sensation after unintentionally scorching liberals during her autumn appearance on the popular game show.

Contestant Becky Sullivan, originally from Kansas City, Missouri, provided a laugh-packed climax during the Oct. 23 episode, when the Final Jeopardy clue in the category of "Flowers" stated:

"The flower pictured here is called this, also a disparaging term for people on the political left."

While the correct response was "a bleeding heart," Sullivan wrote "What is a pansy?"

The audience erupted in laughter.

Watch the video:

"I think you may have found a way to insult liberals in this country," host Alex Trebek said before and after Sullivan's incorrect answer was revealed to the audience, costing her all of her $6,000 she had earned to that point.

Despite the incorrect answer, Trebek did offer some support, saying, "although I do like pansy."

Views on YouTube of Sullivan's answer have rocketed to more than 1.6 million since the show aired.

On Twitter, Sullivan expounded on her response, saying, "OK here's the deal with pansy: I actually didn't know bleeding heart was a flower. I just put the only flower I knew that was also an insult."

And she divulged some behind-the-scenes secrets of the game show, tweeting, "Insider info: this thirty seconds of footage with the Jeopardy 'music' where we're thinking and writing had to be re-taped. IT'S ALL FAKE."

Later, Sullivan opined she was getting a bit overwhelmed by all the instant publicity.

"Look, it's really, really strange going viral," she said on NPR. "I'm a pretty private person when it comes to the Internet, so it's impossible to be comfortable seeing my name and face all over, with thousands of strangers commenting on me and speculating about my intentions. I'll have to take a break from Twitter and Facebook for a while."

She added: "I also didn't know that host Alex Trebek can read the Final Jeopardy responses before they're revealed. So it was a big surprise when he set up my guess like a joke."

This was the second time in 2015 the political left was embarrassed on "Jeopardy."

A clue on the June 3 broadcast left the geniuses literally speechless.

When shown a photograph of Barack Obama's attorney general, host Alex Trebek provided the clue:

"Here she is at her Senate confirmation hearing to be our top cop."

All three contestants had no idea, and none clicked the signaling device to even venture a guess.

When time ran out, Trebek was forced to disclose, "And the lady's name is Loretta Lynch."

See the video from June 3:

It must make Ms. Lynch proud to realize the smartest people in America have no idea who she is.

And who can forget this sensational "Jeopardy" championnnnn?

She became all the rage for her extended upward inflectionnnnn???

Laura Ashby of Marietta, Georgia, more than intrigued viewers across America in November, and it had nothing to do with her obvious intelligence, as she has pocketed $36,802 on her winning streak.

The attorney and playwright who was educated at Vanderbilt and Yale annoyed and hypnotized fans of the show with her elongated and upward inflection of the last syllable of each word in her responses.

Watch and listen to a montage of Laura Ashby's responses on "Jeopardy" after Alex Trebek's interview of her:

Her elocution sparked a following on a Twitter thread called #JeopardyLaura, where fans are voicing their thoughts, including:

• "It's mesmerizing. At first I was confused. Then I was sad. Now I'm fascinated."

• "#JeopardyLaura is giving me an aneurysm!! Stop it with that voice!"

• "I thought it was just me that found this proverbial 'fingernails down a chalkboard' so annoying, I had to turn it off."

• "I wish the buzzer would shock Laura every time she does that thing with her voice!"

• "Today in Tech News: Jeopardy Laura to be the new voice of Siri."

• "Turn on @Jeopardy + listen to the extended vowels Laura. Two hundredheh. Now we're all talking like it."

• "Kudos to #Jeopardy for finding someone more annoying to listen to than Alex Trebek!"

• "My new favorite is to watch #Jeopardy and my Twitter feed at the same time."

• "Breaking News from the Vatican: Laura's husband on fast track to sainthood."

Once no longer on the show, Ashby tweeted, "All right Internet, you can go back to teasing cats with cucumbers now."

News weasel

A photo of a weasel riding on the back of a woodpecker caused a flutter on social media, not just for the original photo, but for Photoshopped amendments.

The original image was snapped in March by Martin Le-May during a walk with his wife through Hornchurch Country Park in London, England.

The image has sparked a surge of interest online, being retweeted thousands of times and a hashtag of #WeaselPecker created on Twitter.

A variety of spoof images have been posted including guest characters, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton, John Travolta, Miley Cyrus and Honey Boo-Boo.

According to Britain's Telegraph, Le-May and his wife heard "distressed squawking" before witnessing the woodpecker's "struggle for life" as the weasel clung to its back.

Le-May, 52, an amateur photographer from Essex, England, told ITV he "feared the worst" for the bird, which appeared to be "unnaturally hopping."

"As we walked we heard a distressed squawking and I saw the flash of green," said Le-May. "We trained our binoculars and it occurred that the woodpecker was unnaturally hopping about like it was treading on a hot surface.

"The bird was about 50 meters away from us and took off just as I lifted the camera up. Originally, I thought I was just taking a picture of a green woodpecker flying. Then I realized it had something on its back.

"Suddenly it was obvious it had a small mammal on its back and this was a struggle for life."

The woodpecker eventually landed some 80 feet from the couple.

"I guess our presence ... momentarily distracted the weasel," said Le-May. "The woodpecker seized the opportunity and flew up and away into some bushes away to our left. Quickly the bird gathered its self respect and flew up into the trees and away from our sight.

"The woodpecker left with its life; the weasel just disappeared into the long grass, hungry."

The photographer was unaware how stunning his pictures were until he downloaded them at home.

"I flicked through the photographs when I got indoors and suddenly I came across this image of a weasel clinging on to the back of the woodpecker.

"Then I realized that this was something special."

Some Twitter users have suggested the photo may not be real.

But Matt Binstead, head keeper at the British Wildlife Center, told the Telegraph: "You can tell it's a real photograph.

"A female weasel is not much bigger than a packet of Polos but they are quite ferocious little predators and will prey on things much bigger than themselves – their normal diet is mice and small mammals but they can go for small rabbits.

"It's quite unusual for them to go for a bird, but green woodpeckers forage on the ground. I imagine the weasel gave it a go, jumped on its back and then the woodpecker took off."

Monkey business

Everyone is aware that flipping the middle finger can sometimes set people off.

But who knew that "shooting the bird" at a monkey could create a situation nothing short of bananas?

Camera footage from the northern Indian city of Shimla shows two guys walking past a monkey in a public marketplace.

As the New York Daily News reported, "The simian bears its teeth at the young man, who, undeterred, appears to raise his middle finger at the animal. That's when the monkey leaps toward the human and lays him out with a swift push and two-legged primate kick to the torso -- an attack the video shows once in real time and again in slow motion for good measure."

The lesson here?

Don't monkey with monkeys.

Now ear this!

The Bible says that dogs are unclean animals, but when a woman in Wales gave her Yorkshire terrier a bath, she says she saw an image of Jesus' face in her pet's wet ear.

According to Wales Online, Rachel Evans, 25, was washing "Dave" in the bathroom sink and decided to take some photos.

When she showed the pictures to her boyfriend, she believes the face of the Creator of the universe was on display in her pet's sopping wet ear.

"I was a bit freaked out to be honest," Evans said. "I am a bit superstitious and it's quite spooky.

"At first I didn't see anything at all. We were just giving them a bath in the sink and taking silly photos and selfies because they looked cute.

"About an hour later I showed my partner and he said, 'Can you see that face?'

"We looked a but closer and realized it looked like Jesus. It's a bit strange."

The devil is in the details

For all those who may have wondered if President Barack Obama is the Antichrist mentioned in the Bible, a U.S. newspaper had the intestinal fortitude to clarify the issue.

The Lexington Dispatch in North Carolina reportedly printed a correction to a reader's letter to the editor.

The correction reads:

"Boyd Thomas' letter Saturday contained an error in the headline. He does not believe President Obama is the Antichrist, who will come after seven kings, according to Revelation. He thinks Obama could be the seventh king."

The correction references Thomas' letter to the editor published on February 6.

The Dispatch's original title for the letter was "Is Obama the Antichrist?"

But the online headline was amended to ask, "Is Obama the seventh king?"

Thomas' letter actually includes a mention of the word "Antichrist," as he wrote:

"Who and what is Barack Obama? Obama claims nobody can stop him or change anything he's done. This evil must come to pass before the Lord's return and the rise of the Antichrist, but you better know what evil you're dealing with. Nobody is promised another minute of life upon this earth, and judgment comes at the time of your death.

"Many support and stand behind Obama no matter what he does. All these people will stand with Obama in judgment also. Christ promises to spew every lukewarm soul out of his mouth. This means very few will enter heaven, because they show no faith by fighting against the sins of this world daily."

The Houston Chronicle called the Dispatch's correction "one of the nuttiest corrections of the year thus far."

The correction is getting plenty of reaction online, including:

• "Well, we darn sure dodged a bullet there."

• "Part of my brain may have exploded by reading that correction."

• "Well, I guess we can call off the Secret Service detail."

For what it's worth, the night Obama was first elected president in November 2008, the three-digit winning lottery number in Illinois, the state in which Obama resided at the time he was running, was 666, a figure which the Book of Revelation in the New Testament calls the "number of the beast."

Back to the 'gay' future

You're probably already aware that 2015 was the year that Marty McFly and Doc Brown soared into the future from 1985 in the "Back to the Future" movies.

But what you may not know is that in real life this year, a strange (some might even say queer) deleted scene from the first film in the trilogy went viral online, with actor Michael J. Fox sweating bullets that he might turn out to be "gay" in the future if he took a hands-on approach to getting to know his fictional mother.

"I just don't know if I can go through with it, hitting on her," a nervous Marty explains to Brown, played by actor Christopher Lloyd.

"Nobody said anything about hitting her," responds the Doc with a wink. "You're just gonna take a few liberties with her."

"You see that's what I mean," notes Marty. "I can't believe I'm actually going to feel up my own mother. You know, this is the kind of thing that could screw me up permanently. Well, what if I go back to the future, and I end up being 'gay?'"

And the classic 1950s response from Doc Brown: "Why shouldn't you be happy?"

Watch the deleted scene:

Draw or die

In the wake of a springtime terrorist attack at a "Draw Muhammad" free-speech event in Garland, Texas, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" decided to spoof the controversy by holding its own Pictionary-style game show titled "Picture Perfect."

During the skit, one contestant played by comic Bobby Moynihan was asked to draw "the Prophet Muhammad."

"No, I don't want to. I want to go home!" whimpered Moynihan.

Paralyzed with fear, Moynihan passed off the card to his teammate, actor Reginald VelJohnson of "Family Matters" (played by Kenan Thompson), who also quivers when he realizes he's being asked to sketch the Islamic prophet.

"Oh, I dropped my pen!" VelJohnson declares, as he intentionally tosses away his writing instrument.

When time runs out, actress Reese Witherspoon correctly guesses out of thin air, "The Prophet Muhammad."

The host of the show, played by Taran Killam, concluded, "The takeaway is ... these two men drew the Prophet Muhammad!"

"No, we drew nothing!" declared Moynihan.

"Oh, sweet Lord, they're coming for me!" cried VelJohnson.

"You bet they are, Reginald!" the host agreed.

Anchor away!

And last but not least, Brian Williams, the longtime anchor of the "NBC Evening News," lost his top gig at the network after apparently losing his marbles, telling false stories about his reporting in Iraq and elsewhere, embellishing the news to the point of no return.

Breitbart News actually documented 32 lies and disputed stories the one-time golden boy told for a decade.

But when the news initially broke concerning Brian's lyin', it was Twitter users who became the comedic heroes of the moment, creating the hashtag of #BrianWilliamsMisremembers and posting images of major events in history that Brian Williams may have covered ... or not.

See how many of these you remember Williams being present at:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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