Friday Funny News Roundup: November 2025 Edition (with Real Sources!)

Happy Friday, everyone! Time to close those spreadsheets, put down the quarterly reports, and dive into the wonderfully weird world of this week's news. November 2025 has been serving up some absolute gems that prove reality is still stranger than fiction. From pasta controversies to robot chicken fights (yes, really), here's your curated collection of the most delightfully absurd headlines making us smile this week.

Quick Clicks: Read the Originals

• NPR — Strange News: A rolling feed of delightfully odd headlines, from word-of-the-year debates to haunted car washes and West Virginia’s Mothman Festival. Read on NPR — Strange News

• UPI — Odd News: Flamingos on the lam, an emu on the run, sheep hitching a ride on a commuter train, a viral dog-vs.-lion lookalike clip, surprise lottery wins, and even an overdue library book redemption arc. Read on UPI — Odd News

• Newsweek — Herding dog vs. sheep-shaped co-worker: A diligent herding dog’s instincts kick in when it meets a sheep-shaped colleague, sending the internet into hysterics. Read on Newsweek

• Yahoo Tech — Office robot fails a simple task: An office robot hilariously flubs a straightforward job in a moment that feels straight out of a Robin Williams bit—funny and a little telling about AI’s limits. Read on Yahoo Tech

• AP News — Oddities: Quirky snapshots from around the world—record-setters, harmless mishaps, and small-town curiosities collected by AP’s editors. Read on AP News — Oddities

Culinary Crimes and Food Fails

The Great Pasta Debate of 2025

Who knew that cooking pasta could spark international controversy? Molly-Mae Hague's sister Zoe managed to unite the internet in horror during an episode of the Behind It All docuseries when she committed what many are calling a culinary war crime. The offense? Tossing dry pasta into a saucepan before adding boiling water. As if watching someone break the fundamental laws of pasta physics wasn't painful enough, Molly-Mae decided to pile on by roasting her sister's furniture choices, describing her guest room drawers as "big packs of Ikea Spock-off drawers."

The internet collectively gasped, Italian grandmothers everywhere shed a single tear, and food lovers questioned everything they thought they knew about sibling loyalty. Sometimes the real entertainment isn't in the reality TV drama, it's in watching someone confidently destroy pasta in real-time.

KFC's Bold Move Into Oral Hygiene

In what might be 2025's most unexpected collaboration, KFC has teamed up with Hismile toothpaste to create something that shouldn't exist but absolutely does: fried chicken-flavoured toothpaste. For just $13 a tube, you can experience what they describe as "like biting into a hot, juicy piece of KFC Original Recipe Chicken," except you're brushing your teeth with it.

The toothpaste features the brand's iconic 11 herbs and spices blend, presumably leaving your mouth fresh, clean, and mysteriously craving a bucket meal. It's unclear whether this is brilliant marketing or Colonel Sanders rolling in his grave, but it's definitely 2025's most confusing dental hygiene product. Available on Hismile's website for those brave enough to make their morning routine taste like a fast-food experience.

Florida: Never Change, Please

The World's Most Honest Drug Dealer

Sometimes truth in advertising goes too far. Florida woman Teryn Acri was arrested carrying a tote bag that read "Definitely Not A Bag Full Of Drugs." Spoiler alert: it was absolutely, completely, 100% full of drugs, meth, needles, Narcan, digital scales, and baggies.

Sheriff Wayne Ivey delivered the perfect response: "The bag was filled with snacks…nah, just kidding. It was actually drugs." Acri has now earned herself what the sheriff calls a "staycation" at "Ivey's Iron Bar Lodge." You have to admire the commitment to honesty, even if the execution was questionable. Florida continues to be the gift that keeps on giving to headline writers everywhere.

Legislative Lunacy: Oklahoma's Robot Chicken Fights

In what might be 2025's most bizarrely specific piece of legislation, Oklahoma has officially legalized robot chicken fights through House Bill 1326, effective November 1st. Yes, you read that correctly: live roosters can now legally fight robots, as long as the birds don't get hurt.

This law updates Oklahoma Statutes to permit this strange fusion of farmyard fowl and futuristic battle bots. It's unclear whether this is a stroke of animal welfare genius, the plot of a rogue Pixar short, or just Oklahoma being Oklahoma. What we do know is that somewhere in the state, an engineer is probably designing the world's first chicken-fighting robot, and honestly, we're kind of here for it.

The law raises so many questions: Do the robots trash-talk? Is there a weight class system? Can spectators bet on whether technology or nature will triumph? Oklahoma has given us peak 2025 weirdness, and we're not mad about it.

International Oddities and Record-Breaking Ridiculousness

Ireland's "Lion" That Wasn't

Irish police found themselves investigating reports of a lion roaming freely through local woods after a viral video sparked panic. The investigation concluded, and the animal turned out to be something far less terrifying than initially thought. While the exact identity of the "lion" hasn't been fully disclosed, it's safe to say no one needed to call in big game hunters or cancel local school outdoor activities.

Academic Accidents and Technological Triumphs

Harvard's Million-Dollar Mistake (The Good Kind)

Sometimes ignorance is worth millions. Librarians at Harvard Law School discovered that a document they purchased for just $27.50: thinking it was a reproduction: is actually an original version of the Magna Carta worth millions of dollars.

This might be the best return on investment in academic history, and proof that sometimes the most valuable things are hiding in plain sight. The discovery also suggests that somewhere, someone is having a very different conversation about that garage sale where they sold their "old documents" for pocket change.

Purdue's Lightning-Fast Cube Solver

Students at Purdue University created a robot called "Purdubik's Cube" that solves a Rubik's Cube in just 0.103 seconds: faster than it takes to blink. The achievement is simultaneously impressive and slightly insulting to everyone who's ever spent hours trying to get just one side of a cube the right colour.

The robot's success raises important questions about whether we're teaching machines to be better at human puzzles than humans, and whether this particular skill set will be useful when the robots eventually take over. At least they'll be able to solve our puzzles really, really quickly.

Wrapping Up the Week's Weirdness

As we head into another weekend, it's worth celebrating the beautifully bizarre world we live in. From pasta controversies to robot chicken legislation, November 2025 has reminded us that reality doesn't need social media algorithms to go viral: it just needs to be authentically, wonderfully weird.

Whether you're a small business owner looking for a laugh after a long week of client meetings, or just someone who appreciates the absurd side of human nature, these stories prove that no matter how serious the world gets, there's always something delightfully ridiculous happening somewhere.

Here's to embracing the weird, celebrating the unexpected, and remembering that sometimes the best business strategy is simply not taking ourselves too seriously. After all, in a world where robot chicken fights are legal and toothpaste tastes like fried chicken, anything is possible.

Have a fantastic weekend, and remember: if you're ever feeling like your week was strange, at least you're not the person explaining to police why your tote bag definitely doesn't contain drugs when it absolutely does.

Want more weekly weirdness? Check out ourprevious Friday roundupsfor your regular dose of delightfully absurd headlines.