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'This American Life' Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence.quote:In what cultural anthropologists are calling a "colossal achievement" in the study of white-collar professionals, the popular radio show has successfully isolated all 7,442 known characteristics of college graduates who earn between $62,500 and $125,000 per year and feel strongly that something should be done about global warming. This one's particularly great because it cut so deep for This American Life that they were forced to devote an act in their show to The Onion out of respect. Mierdaan has a new favorite as of 14:04 on Apr 5, 2012 |
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Metric System Thriving In Nation's Inner Cities
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Apr 5, 2012 16:30
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Mierdaan posted:'This American Life' Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence. Which was a really fascinating look inside The Onion and one of my favorite episodes.
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In The Know Panel Analyzes Obama's Furious, Profanity-Filled Rant At Nation
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Apr 5, 2012 19:27
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Not a single article, but a whole series. From when Obama won the election in November 2008 to his inauguration in January 2009, The Onion had a series of short paragraphs in the "News in Brief" section on horrific accidents suffered by President Bush:
The Biden series was linked earlier, but no one has linked my favorite: Biden Receives Lifetime Ban From Dave & Buster's
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Brother Jonathan posted:Not a single article, but a whole series. From when Obama won the election in November 2008 to his inauguration in January 2009, The Onion had a series of short paragraphs in the "News in Brief" section on horrific accidents suffered by President Bush: I loved all of these horrible Bush accident articles because they always ended the same. quote:President Bush is resting comfortably in Bethesda Naval Hospital. No matter how horrible the injuries. Except for that last one...
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Do you guys all pay for the onion now?
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Apr 5, 2012 20:40
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mrfart posted:Do you guys all pay for the onion now? 
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Apr 5, 2012 21:13
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mrfart posted:Do you guys all pay for the onion now? There are free hard copies of it in all the newspaper boxes around town here. It is where the Onion got started, after all.
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Apr 5, 2012 21:20
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World's oldest neurosurgeon turns 100
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Apr 5, 2012 21:51
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Enter Tha Office is incredible. And my all time favorite point/counterpoint.
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Apr 5, 2012 23:16
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Yes, by being American. I only got to read the hard copies for the first time in new york this summer. Anyway, apparently you're only allowed to read 5 articles per month anymore. Or is this only for dirty non-Americans?
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I never see hard copies where I live, but apparently the website is only free in America now. It does sometimes have some pretty obnoxious ads though.
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Apr 6, 2012 00:53
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It is possible to bypass the 5 per month thing by using the private surf mode in Firefox (probably works in Chrome etc. as well), then you can read 5 more and just reset by going out of and into it again! 
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Martout posted:It is possible to bypass the 5 per month thing by using the private surf mode in Firefox (probably works in Chrome etc. as well), then you can read 5 more and just reset by going out of and into it again! thanks for this. I probably should just buy a subscription, but if wasn't for this thread, I wouldn't even have read the onion anymore.
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I love this article, and was pretty happy to find out they've done a bunch of similar stories on this guy (Don Turnbee). Area Man To Hang Out At McDonald's For 20 Minutes Until Lunch Menu Goes Up His other articles
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Taco Bell's New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature
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Brother Jonathan posted:The Biden series was linked earlier, but no one has linked my favorite: I love these so much, I'd never seen any of them before this thread. Kids, Your Mother Is Ready To Start loving Again is fantastic, she's being so open and communicative
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They also did a video about Vice President Biden: Newsroom: Biden Criticized For Appearing In Hennessy Ads. It is a different persona from the articles, but it is hilarious imagining him as an "international playboy." "Sensual. Powerful. Biden." Biden knew about the articles, and has said that they are "hilarious." He also said that he doesn't have a 1981 Trans Am, but does have a 1967 Corvette.
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Martout posted:It is possible to bypass the 5 per month thing by using the private surf mode in Firefox (probably works in Chrome etc. as well), then you can read 5 more and just reset by going out of and into it again! Also try just hitting the stop button on your browser a second after the page loads. It's pretty easy to stop the page between loading the page itself, and overlaying the page with the 5 article limit message.
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Brother Jonathan posted:Biden knew about the articles, and has said that they are "hilarious." He also said that he doesn't have a 1981 Trans Am, but does have a 1967 Corvette. Man, I love "Diamond Joe".
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Brother Jonathan posted:They also did a video about Vice President Biden: Newsroom: Biden Criticized For Appearing In Hennessy Ads. It is a different persona from the articles, but it is hilarious imagining him as an "international playboy." "Sensual. Powerful. Biden." This gets even better because I just saw an Youtube ad this morning for Hennessy featuring Congressman Manny Pacquiao. 
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New Little Caesars Marketing Strategy Has Employees Throw Themselves On Hoods Of Passing Cars The last couple lines were amazing and came out of nowhere.
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Groundskeeper Silly posted:I love this article, and was pretty happy to find out they've done a bunch of similar stories on this guy (Don Turnbee). My favorite Don Turnbee is when he's confused about buffet procedures.
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Voters Slowly Realizing Santorum Believes Every Deranged Word That Comes Out Of His Mouth
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Hobojim posted:The first Onion article that I ever saw is still my favourite, and I haven't seen it posted yet. New study shows dolphins not so intelligent on land. Counterpoint: Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs
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DolphinCop posted:New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time is my absolute favorite. I came here to post the live poll one, it's just about the funniest loving thing The Onion has ever done and everyone in this thread should watch it right now. It's kind of depressing how spot on it is, and I love how the discourse degrades as the pundits watch the poll numbers come in. I still see that poo poo from time to time while politicians are speaking, but thank god it's becoming less of a thing than it was in the 2008 election. I forget which news channel was obsessed with those live polls, CNN I think, but they're incredibly distracting and annoying. I didn't see it mentioned in the thread but another great video from the 2008 election was Cindy McCain Claims She's 'Just Like Any Other Female Human.' God that woman looked like a creepy Stepford Wife. In the realm of great Onion headlines, one of my favorites has always been: World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100 Percent
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Pitnicker posted:World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100 Percent Great quote from that: quote:"Why should we continue to spend billions of dollars a year on a health care industry whose sole purpose is to prevent death, only to find, once again, that death awaits us all?" Nader said in an impassioned address to several suburban Californians. Edit: I don't think has been posted yet: Reporter Helps Starving Dogs By Personally Shooting Them ultrafilter has a new favorite as of 03:55 on Apr 11, 2012 |
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I barely even have to read the article, but I just love this headline. World's Youngest Person Born
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ultrafilter posted:Taco Bell's New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature I have to say, that's oddly prophetic with them promoting Doritos flavored taco sells. I have to wonder how much marijuana was smoked to come up with that idea?
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clockworx posted:Counterpoint: Awwww, they took out the subheader: "Oh poo poo, Says Humanity"
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Awwww, they took out the subheader: "Oh poo poo, Says Humanity" That's weak as it's one of my favorites As is this: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough?
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This is a classic Biden: The TuckScreen: Can't Wait To See Joe Biden's Band Play The Superbowl The Joe Biden Band: Golden Collection - The #1 Hits 1973 - 1982 Tracklist 1 - Groovy Bowl Of Grapes 2 - Sister-In-Law 3 - Scalp Tan 4 - Waiting For The Money To Roll In 5 - The Ladies 6 - Tell 'Em Joe Sent Ya 7 - Surf Rock Mongolia 8 - Beware The Jabber-Rock-y 9 - Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls 10 - Havin' A Moon Party (live at The Great Wall of China) 11 - Brew Doggin' 12 - Catch Me If You’re Tan 13 - A Gal Named Jill 14 - Only Jill 15 - You Are My Jill 16 - Psychedelic Fur-Coffee #18 17 - He's Got The Reagan Blues 18 - The President Is A Demon 19 - It's Revolution Time 20 - Nothing Is Anything 21 - Christmas In Joe Town!
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I love this, and pretty much all other, infographics. About Bil Keane's death
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Mierdaan posted:This one's particularly great because it cut so deep for This American Life that they were forced to devote an act in their show to The Onion out of respect. Chiming in a week late, but this was a really fascinating link, thanks! It actually highlights what I think is The Onion's biggest flaw - the headlines are hilarious but the article text often belabours the joke. On topic, this is one of the first Onion articles I read and probably one of the funniest: Christ Returns to NBA
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I can't believe this one hasn't been posted yet. So many people fell for this on Facebook because they've never actually watched C-Span before: http://www.theonion.com/video/proposed-classified-bill-will-defend-against-flesh,14175/ *the rest of this post is classified*
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Got a pretty big laugh out of this one today: "TV Listings" quote:Major League Baseball
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Bro, You're A God Among Bros The staggering number of puns gets me every time. Bonus article reading
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Followed a link from that one and found this story. "From The Beaches Of Normandy To The Streets Of Paris, My Platoon Was A Bunch Of Pussies" quote:Like many good men my age, I was in the Big One, and I can tell you firsthand that war is hell. It's day after horrifying day of your worst fears come true. And when it came time to face those fears and be men, I could always count on my fellow leathernecks in the 202nd, without fail, to knuckle under and scatter like frightened little children.
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Abortion Stops a Beating
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