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Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug
I just noticed the Unsung Heroes section. They're pictures with a sentence or two, so there isn't much to link to.

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Gerald Carnes whipped out his jumper cables and started the car of Jennifer Barrett while reassuring her that it was okay, women do stupid things like leaving their lights on all the time.

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Phil Grayson celebrated 15 years of manning the old glory hole in the South Royalton Rest Area men’s room.

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Thom Cargill kept his tuberculosis under wraps so as not to be a downer during the flight from Hong Kong to L.A.

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A Boring Story
Mar 27, 2008

We're not going to Catalina, are we?

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug
Corrections:

quote:

Possession
In a previous issue, The Onion spelled the word "possession" with two sets of double s's, which is apparently correct but just doesn't seem right. So let's go with "possesion."

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Humbaba
In the May 21 issue, Humbaba was mistakenly identified as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He is actually the guardian of the Cedar Forest who was slain by the Sumerian hero-king Gilgamesh. The Onion regrets the error.

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Offspring
Last week The Onion published a photo of a man giving the evil eye. The Onion regrets not printing a Hand of Fatima on the opposite page to prevent you from losing all of your livestock, beauty, health, and offspring.

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Meatless Chili
Last week's food section included a recipe for meatless chili, but it turns out meat is pretty important for chili not to taste terrible. The Onion apologizes on behalf of all vegetarians.

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Flawlessness
Although The Onion did not make any mistakes in yesterday's newspaper, we still have to fill this space with text lest we leave a glaring blank section. Therefore, when you think about it, our flawlessness is an error in itself.

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
Wendy's Wants Consumers To Know It's Fine With Gays, Disapproves Of Interracial Marriage

The last line slays me.

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug
Didn't see this posted (or at least a forum search for the title had no hits). It's one of my favorites:
I'm A Cloud Factory!

Also:
Millions and Millions Dead

d[-.-]b
Aug 1, 2004

my fav champ that hero who cats a spell that make all bad guy fall down and say my dick BIG

Zugzwang posted:

The phone in the main picture for this reminded me of another gem:

Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles



Samsung is taking their legal advice from The Onion:

Samsung Product Chief: ‘It’s Unreasonable That We’re Fighting Over Rectangles’

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/samsung-chief-product-officer-q-and-a/

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro

D is That Guy posted:

Short and sweet

My all time favorite fake porno title from the Onion is "Butt gently caress Sluts Go Nuts vol 5". This is pretty good too.

goodog
Nov 3, 2007

The Onion hates your childhood and wants you to feel bad, rear end in a top hat.

Dying Lion Sure Doesn't Feel As Though He's Completing Some Great Cosmic Circle.

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug

El Negocio posted:

The Onion hates your childhood and wants you to feel bad, rear end in a top hat.

Dying Lion Sure Doesn't Feel As Though He's Completing Some Great Cosmic Circle.

This is so sad. :smith:


In other news, :woop: Sex House - Ep. 4 - Extended Preview

Jay's continued failure to have sex with Tara is very ... conspicuous. I wonder if he's in the closet; it would make so much sense.

my god I can't remember the last time I've cared this much about a real TV show

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Lysidas posted:

In other news, :woop: Sex House - Ep. 4 - Extended Preview

Jay's continued failure to have sex with Tara is very ... conspicuous. I wonder if he's in the closet; it would make so much sense.
No, that would be too much of a distraction to Derek, who seems willing to do anything to get kicked off.

buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord

El Negocio posted:

The Onion hates your childhood and wants you to feel bad, rear end in a top hat.

Dying Lion Sure Doesn't Feel As Though He's Completing Some Great Cosmic Circle.

I came here to post this, I think it's my new favorite. Funny but it's just dark at the end. :(

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Pretty dark in the beginning and the middle too.

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

Lysidas posted:

Corrections:

All Is Lost

Last week, The Onion reported that all our troubles are over, when in fact all is lost. We regret the error.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Nation's Lower Class At Least Grateful It Not Part Of Nation's Middle Class

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"Imagine how traumatic it is to grow up feeling like a failure because you think you have some kind of control over what you achieve in life," said Dana Joerger, a 31-year-old waitress and single mother of three in Stockton, CA. "I just hope and pray my family never falls into the endless cycle of disappointment that plagues our middle class."

d[-.-]b
Aug 1, 2004

my fav champ that hero who cats a spell that make all bad guy fall down and say my dick BIG
Another one of their non-news video bits.

100 iPhones Found In Lake - Lake Dredge Appraisal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_uPu6colaI&list=UUfAOh2t5DpxVrgS9NQKjC7A&index=2&feature=plcp

It's not incredibly funny, but it's worth it for the last bit.

net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011

"d[-.- posted:

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Another one of their non-news video bits.

100 iPhones Found In Lake - Lake Dredge Appraisal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_uPu6colaI&list=UUfAOh2t5DpxVrgS9NQKjC7A&index=2&feature=plcp

It's not incredibly funny, but it's worth it for the last bit.

gently caress yes, I'm so glad they did another one of these.

buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord

I found this to be the best part of the article. Found it hilarious, but like the Lion one, depressing.

Smiley!
Dec 7, 2009

The Picard Maneuver
Sex House Episode 4, and a preview for episode 5.

"This is a disaster."

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin
I don't want this show ever to end!

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
Oh my god they're all going to die.

Cuttlefish Party
Mar 18, 2011

Cuttlefish: GO.
(They've advanced quickly.)
It is actually pretty bold and clever of The Onion to reimagine Huis Clos as a reality show.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Cuttlefish Party posted:

It is actually pretty bold and clever of The Onion to reimagine Huis Clos as a reality show.

You know, the thought has come to me that Sex House does take place in Hell. And with Jay and Tara not being able to do it, everyone avoids Alex's come-ons, while Frank and Erin, the least-likely of the contestants to have sex actually doing it and destroying their lives in the process, it does seem like Sartre's "Hell Is Other People".

Zoph
Sep 12, 2005

I want to thank this thread for giving me the heads up on Sex House. I never remember to check the site for content, I just follow The Onion's Facebook feed. This is amazing.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Sex House is, beyond a doubt, one of the best things the onion has ever done, and I usually don't really like their videos that much.

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
My personal theory right now is that Alex is a plant. Whoever's in charge tasked her with infiltrating the group to encourage sex.

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

My personal theory right now is that Alex is a plant. Whoever's in charge tasked her with infiltrating the group to encourage sex.

There's definitely something going on with Alex, she's too... focused to be as normal as everyone else, she hasn't stopped going for sex during all of this. I'm not completely sold on the idea that she's a plant, but it's a distinct possibility.

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
Sex House now has a thread in TV IV!

Vincent
Nov 25, 2005



Cleretic posted:

There's definitely something going on with Alex, she's too... focused to be as normal as everyone else, she hasn't stopped going for sex during all of this. I'm not completely sold on the idea that she's a plant, but it's a distinct possibility.

I think it's just that she's the stereotype of the inde/punk rock/alt girl camwhore, and the prototype of person who thrives on these reality shows. She needs to be the center of attention and her validation is other people finding her sexually attractive (which no one in the house does), so she comes of as off-putting and desperate. Basically, she's the sex-craving side side of the cast of Jersey Shore.

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Vincent posted:

I think it's just that she's the stereotype of the inde/punk rock/alt girl camwhore, and the prototype of person who thrives on these reality shows. She needs to be the center of attention and her validation is other people finding her sexually attractive (which no one in the house does), so she comes of as off-putting and desperate. Basically, she's the sex-craving side side of the cast of Jersey Shore.
I'd agree, but even Jay and Tara have shown that they're more than just the reality show stereotypes that they seem to be.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Vincent posted:

I think it's just that she's the stereotype of the inde/punk rock/alt girl camwhore, and the prototype of person who thrives on these reality shows. She needs to be the center of attention and her validation is other people finding her sexually attractive (which no one in the house does), so she comes of as off-putting and desperate. Basically, she's the sex-craving side side of the cast of Jersey Shore.

That's my opinion, too. She's almost the straight man in this case, to the WTFery of locked doors, mold, and Erin.

got your nose!
May 3, 2008

and i'm not giving it back
Badminton World Rocked By Worst Scandal Since Dad Tapped Aunt Carla's rear end With Racket

http://www.theonion.com/articles/badminton-world-rocked-by-worst-scandal-since-dad,29031/

Robert Denby
Sep 9, 2007
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, huh? Nah, get fucked mate.


Such a cheap gag, but amazing.

Red1Dex
Apr 2, 2010
Local Lutheran Minister Loves To gently caress His Wife.

KittenParade
Jul 20, 2004
This one is adorable. :3:

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One terrified onlooker said he watched the creature use its razor-sharp mandibles to tear through the leaf of a 100-foot-tall oak tree as though it were paper.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Oh man, this is a good one:
Hungary's Szilagyi Pulls Off Upset In—Christ, One More Week Of This?

"As of press time, an imponderable number of forgettable accomplishments, flat jubilation, insipid comments, and bland observations are slated to recur countless times during the unfathomable abyss of Olympic events scheduled for the next seven goddamn miserable cock-sucking assholes days."

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
Haha, this reminds me of one of their all-time best ones:

Single Bee Sends Gathering Of Humans Into Helpless Panic

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?



Haha, this is fantastic.

quote:

"Emily is a good, kind, Christian woman," Snowdon added. "But let there be no mistake: She is also one furious gently caress-mama, as well."

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Some of my military friends on Facebook made me think of this one:
Man Who Fought For Americans' Rights Demands Americans Stop Exercising Their Rights

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug
Not my favorite video that they've done, but it's always good to see them branch out into a new category of parody news:

Onion Weather Center: Extreme Storms To Rip Through Godforsaken Midwestern Wasteland


EDIT: This one's great though:

In The Know: Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give A poo poo?

Lysidas has a new favorite as of 20:52 on Aug 6, 2012

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SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
Michele Bachmann Thankful No Americans Died In Sikh Shooting
loving brilliant.

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