I came across this fake story thats circulating around...hehe funny read:Somali Pirates in Discussions to Acquire CitigroupNovember 20 (Gulf of Aden Newswire) — The Somali pirates, renegade Somalis known for hijacking ships for ransom in the Gulf of Aden, are negotiating a purchase of Citigroup.The pirates would buy Citigroup with new debt and their existing cash stockpiles, earned most recently from hijacking numerous ships, including most recently a $200 million Saudi Arabian oil tanker. The Somali pirates are offering up to $0.10 per share for Citigroup, pirate spokesman Sugule Ali said earlier today. The negotiations have entered the final stage, Ali said. “You may not like our price, but we are not in the business of paying for things. Be happy we are in the mood to offer the shareholders anything,” said Ali. The pirates will finance part of the purchase by selling new Pirate Ransom Backed Securities. The PRBS’s are backed by the cash flows from future ransom payments from hijackings in the Gulf of Aden. Moody’s and S&P have already issued their top investment grade ratings for the PRBS’s.Head pirate, Ubu Kalid Shandu, said: “We need a bank so that we have a place to keep all of our ransom money. Thankfully, the dislocations in the capital markets has allowed us to purchase Citigroup at an attractive valuation and to take advantage of TARP capital to grow the business even faster.”Shandu added, “We don’t call ourselves pirates. We are coastguards and this will just allow us to guard our coasts better.”

Not great. Prefer the stories at the Daily Mash.CHANCELLOR Alistair has a secret plant to keep buggering about with the British economy until he finds something that works, it was revealed last night.A confidential Treasury memo, published on a government website, proposes a series of tax rises and tax cuts introduced for two weeks at a time over the next five years.The memo suggests a 75% 'supertax' for pantomime stars between December 5th and January 31st, suspending VAT on forks and cutting corporation tax for companies run by men named Ian.It adds: "Failing that we can just whack up VAT, murder the aristocracy and steal their houses."The memo also reveals Mr Darling's secret plan to breed unicorns and sell them to Chinese millionaires.The chancellor would invest public money in up to a dozen unicorn farms acorss the country churning out thousands magical horses which would then be vacuum packed and shipped to the Far East.Mr Darling believes that at £250,000 a unicorn the government could have paid back its £120bn of borrowing by the time Star Trek becomes a reality.The Conservatives last night dismissed the plan as the latest 'government con', insisting there was probably no such thing as unicorns and that it would simply be a load of donkeys with a bread stick glued to their foreheads.