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I bought that batboy issue off the rack at the grocery store when I was a kid. Hot off the presses. I used to read WWN all the time. I stopped when I realized that other people would read it and think it was true. Not sure how you could think that Bill Clinton had an orgy with aliens and batboy, but people believed that crap. I couldn't, in good conscience, keep buying it. I suppose I contributed to it's demise just by not buying it any more. It's too bad it's gone. It was a great rag filled with utter nonsense you could read without thinking. Just enjoy "Ed Anger's" column full of hate and spite against the elderly and minorities.
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mostlygray posted:I bought that batboy issue off the rack at the grocery store when I was a kid. Hot off the presses. I used to read WWN all the time. I stopped when I realized that other people would read it and think it was true. Not sure how you could think that Bill Clinton had an orgy with aliens and batboy, but people believed that crap. I couldn't, in good conscience, keep buying it. I suppose I contributed to it's demise just by not buying it any more. Wait, so Bill Clinton had an orgy with aliens AND Batboy? At the same time? Like how old was batboy at the time? Also, Dear Dotti was pretty awesome too.
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Were sprite comics more of a '90s or '00s thing?
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wesleywillis posted:
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mostlygray posted:I bought that batboy issue off the rack at the grocery store when I was a kid. Hot off the presses. I used to read WWN all the time. I stopped when I realized that other people would read it and think it was true. Not sure how you could think that Bill Clinton had an orgy with aliens and batboy, but people believed that crap. I couldn't, in good conscience, keep buying it. I suppose I contributed to it's demise just by not buying it any more. Nah, 9/11 killed it more than anything. It pulled some from the more wtf stories, and it hurt it a lot.
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WWN lives on in Facebook posts and Twitter threads the world 'round.
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THE SECRET INGREDIENT IS: DRAGONS!
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Weekly World News does yet exist, though I’m not sure if a print edition is making a comeback.
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Laterite posted:WWN lives on in Facebook posts and Twitter threads the world 'round. Yea, Batboy became mayor of NYC and is now doing Crimes for Trump.
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Darthemed posted:Were sprite comics more of a '90s or '00s thing? Early 2000s. Even if there were others before it, I'd say that sprite comics basically had a hayday when Bob and George started in earnest up through it's end. As someone who was involved in that community and basically watched it rise, have in-fights, crumble, and fall in a few years, it was an interesting run.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:THE SECRET INGREDIENT IS: DRAGONS! The secret ingredient is always teamwork you complete bufoon. Or is it love?
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Randaconda posted:Nah, 9/11 killed it more than anything. It pulled some from the more wtf stories, and it hurt it a lot. It was my understanding that old Weekly World News articles were written by actual journalists just making up some poo poo for funsies. Then it got bought out and they replaced the journalists with "comedy" writers, and that just took all the fun out of it.
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, Batboy became mayor of NYC and is now doing Crimes for Trump. Hahahaha! Ow, now my tummy hurts  .
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Iron Crowned posted:It was my understanding that old Weekly World News articles were written by actual journalists just making up some poo poo for funsies. Then it got bought out and they replaced the journalists with "comedy" writers, and that just took all the fun out of it. I wouldn't doubt it. The WWN was incredible in the late 80s through the mid 90s.
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Iron Crowned posted:It was my understanding that old Weekly World News articles were written by actual journalists just making up some poo poo for funsies. Then it got bought out and they replaced the journalists with "comedy" writers, and that just took all the fun out of it. I wanna believe (  ) they prob got a lot of their ideas from the slush pile of local nutters in that case.
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ryonguy posted:I wanna believe ( Believable. The WWN was based in my lovely home state, after all.
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Iron Crowned posted:It was my understanding that old Weekly World News articles were written by actual journalists just making up some poo poo for funsies. Then it got bought out and they replaced the journalists with "comedy" writers, and that just took all the fun out of it. They were, at least at one point, scouring foreign papers and medical journals and etc for weird-but-true news. That plus the outright fabrications made for a heady mix. A couple examples I found a while back:  
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I always assumed WND was the joke paper, like it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. Like the Onion. It was Inquirer and Examinatior that pretended to have real news and the truth.
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Randaconda posted:The National Enquirer has broken a lot of legit stories somehow I think that was one of those self-fulfilling prophecies: the Enquirer transitioned to being pretty much entirely celebrity gossip, paparazzi photos, etc., and so people who wanted to leak a legit story involving capital-F Famous People knew the Enquirer was the place to do it.
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 Nothing worse than accidentally sending an 8 instead of a 5 to your crush
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Suddenly that L337 Speak thing from the early 2000s makes sense. 
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That mostly came from people using BBSes trying to avoid The Man reading their posts. They'll never be able to ctrl-F me as long as I spell it \/\/33|>!
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Can someone please explain how 187 means 'I hate you' because every explanation I can come up with has failed me
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPofqh8aGo
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Killingyouguy! posted:Can someone please explain how 187 means 'I hate you' because every explanation I can come up with has failed me Cuz white people. Little billy cant be talking about murder, oh no.
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Here you go.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Can someone please explain how 187 means 'I hate you' because every explanation I can come up with has failed me 1 looks like an I 8 rhymes with hate I got nothing on the 7
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RagnarokAngel posted:1 looks like an I - 7 (or "Se7en" or "Seven") is a film starring Brad Pitt. - Brad Pitt was in "Sleepers" with Kevin Bacon. - Kevin Bacon was in "The Woodsman" with David Alan Grier. - David Alan Grier was in "Stuart Little" with Julia Sweeney. - Julia Sweeney played the character of Pat on Saturday Night Live. - "Pat" speaks the intro to Ugly Kid Joe's song "Everything About You" And so we have: 1 = I 8 = Hate 7 = Everything About You
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jojoinnit posted:
I only left 55318008 every time I paged someone.
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jojoinnit posted:
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Trabant posted:- 7 (or "Se7en" or "Seven") is a film starring Brad Pitt. That's all well and good, but why do I love you?
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Because 789
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90s internet owned
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Very true
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I didn’t know people were denying that anyone referred to it as the PSX. What the hell?
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:I didn’t know people were denying that anyone referred to it as the PSX. What the hell? Might have been kids who grew up on PS2 games when it was a brand new system and got used to everyone saying “PS1”.
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