The Funniest Night of the Year...

...is when Laughing Sal gathers her cohorts around the dining table in The Great Plotnik World Headquarters, Meatball Kitchen and Humor Depository to plan the Annual Lampoon/April Fool's Issue of the Best Local Newspaper in the World. The BLNW has continued to flourish since 1977, making Sal a wealthy woman many times over and a candidate to take over several local industrial conglomerates, but it would have to be a friendly takeover because Laughing Sal is just not very hostile.

The best stories, of course, are the ones she can't publish. This year's items may or may not include a cartoon of the Doggie Diner dog with a bomb on his head, the new supermarket Dubai-Rite arriving on 24th Street, a rewrite of the Oscar-winning song of the year (not sure yet whether it will be It's Hard Out There for a Wimp or It's Hard Out There with a Limp), an actual photo of the Real Estate Bubble bursting, and hard news stories of the rebel insurgency in Glen Park and possible Civil War with Bernal Heights.