Satire: The News in Pictures XXI

Number 26 on the list of things you couldn’t pay me enough to do,
and I used to clean public toilets.
(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

If you want to make sure you’re on time for your volunteer shift
at the shelter for homeless children, look no further.
(Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

“Go ahead. I dare you to claim me.”
(Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

“Stop copying me!”
(Heribert Proepper/AP)

You’d think an event as big as the International Wine Challenge
would be able to afford tables.
(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

“Being stranded in an airport is a crisis?”
(Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters)

Criminal!
(AFP Photo DDP/Torsten Silz)

This is definitely going to upset the apple cart.
(Matilde Campodonico/AP)

“Stop walkin’ on me, you derelicts - I’m sleepin’ here!”
(Michael Dwyer/AP Photo)

“Excuse me. Yes, you sir. I think your fly is open.”
(Timm Schamberger/AFP/Getty Images)

“My dad was right. I should have gone to work
on Uncle Charlie’s manure farm instead, but did I listen?”
(George Skene/Orlando Sentinel)

Their new diet made them balloon right up.
(Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)

(Roll Call) “Here. Here! Geez, am I invisible or something?”
(Abedin Taherkenareh/European Pressphoto Agency)

“I’m too sexy for my Kurta.”
(Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

That is a bamboo attitude!
( Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images)

A moment later Jeff was aghast to see what he’d been napping on in the park.
(Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)

“Yes, the rumors are true. My robot’s name is Rick Shaw.”
(Reuters)

Should I say it’s a cat so she has to turn it around and check? I think I should!
(Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)