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I like a lot of their single headline and picture with no story entries. A lot of the times the headline itself is funny enough like Papal Infallibility Invoked To Allow Scrabble Word but this one here is all in the picture: This poo poo Again. Short and sweet. Perfect. As for articles, I remember laughing the most at this one: Rubber Band Needed
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The best thing about a lot of the Onion videos like Today Now is watching them a second time to read all the stuff on the crawl at the bottom. Breaking News: Some Bullshit is Happening Somewhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo HackensackBackpack has a new favorite as of 06:45 on Mar 19, 2012 |
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School Bully Not So Tough Since Being Molested Kidnapped Boy Found Safe, Imagines Kidnapped Boy
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:More! MORE! This is the best one. EDIT: Also the comments on the Onion Facebook page from people upset that they're not bashing Joe Biden hard enough and that the liberal bias of the Onion rages on. HackensackBackpack has a new favorite as of 01:14 on Aug 21, 2012 |
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Aug 21, 2012 01:00
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I still love the Today Now! with the 5-year-old writer of Fast Five. http://www.theonion.com/video/today-now-interviews-the-5yearold-screenwriter-of,20188/ "The cars go fast and then they explode!"
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Aug 24, 2012 00:40
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Facebook was the best thing to happen to the Onion. It adds a whole new level of comedy to every article that gets shared.
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Sep 11, 2012 13:17
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ultrafilter posted:Today's going to be an interesting news day: 18-Year-Old Fighting In Afghanistan Has 9/11 Explained To Him By Older Soldier That was the first time in a long time the Onion has made me laugh that particular "Ohohoho, that one..." kind of way. From a few pages back, but it's worth resharing today: The Onion's TV Guide from the weeks  My favourite is Lifetime 
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Sep 11, 2012 17:38
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Robert Denby posted:I dub this one "The Story of Goons". I used to work with a guy like that. I also wanted to punch him in his smug face. I was going to post the Ask An Elderly Black Woman as Depicted by a Sophomore Creative Writing Major from last page, because I had never seen that part of the site before. I loved Ask a 1920's Baseball Fan for the nearly impenetrable slang.
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Lysidas posted:Exactly. "I just wish they'd told us about this trick before."
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I laughed so hard at the headline "At victory event, Jay-Z forced to make small talk with James Carville for 30 minutes."
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:The Onion's Plan For Solving The Fiscal Cliff Crisis I could see a number of Congressmen actually buying into the plan to punish single mothers. Didn't they try to criminalize it in Wisconsin this year? Here's a hot drama bomb! Taylor Swift Apparently Now Dating Garfield Creator Jim Davis Do I smell a Boomtown Rats cover?
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Has the War on Christmas™ been waging for over 7 years now? Time flies when you're hating freedom. They've been posting a lot of old Christmas articles today. It's fun. Religious Cousin Ruins Family's Christmas quote:The trouble began for the Langans in early December, when the family was contacted by Krueger, who explained that she was in the Montoursville area for a six-week Bible-study program and looking for a place to spend the holidays. The Langans, who readily welcomed the visiting cousin into their home, were unaware that she had spent a majority of her adult life attending various "personal enrichment programs," converting to a conservative synod of the Lutheran church and gradually alienating all non-Christian members of her social circle. As always, the last line is the best line.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:America Ends Love Affair With McKayla Maroney After Finding Out She’s 16 The comments on the Onion's Facebook posting for this recently are pretty much as you'd expect. But it DID lead to the Jessica Milly account posting this story: Man Knows Unsettling Amount About Nationwide Age-Of-Consent Laws Which was pretty accurate.
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MRC48B posted:New Al-Qaeda Recruit Sick Of Hearing Senior Terrorists Brag About 9/11 Attacks I can't figure out of the Daily Caller is a parody website or not. EDIT: In honour of the tentative deal between the NHL and the NHLPA (  ) here's my favourite Onion Sports vid:NHL Star Called Up To Big Leagues To Play For NFL HackensackBackpack has a new favorite as of 02:08 on Jan 7, 2013 |
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Robert Denby posted:I love when they do this. Any real newspaper that does something like this deserves a Pulitzer stat. Hahahaha, I was just reading PYF's new Goons.jpg thread, and they mentioned Kuuenbu, and low and behold, if the Onion doesn't spook me! In the crawl for this story, "News from Greenboro, NC: Dad ruins Internet Radio Show."  I wonder if The Onion will have a run on its Cheat To Win bracelets with the latest from Lance Armstrong and Oprah this week.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Thanks, old white dude! Thanks to everyone who protects our right to be free from tyranny. 8-Year-Old Accidentally Exercises 2nd Ammendment Rights quote:"If we ban teflon-coated bullets, automatic weapons would be next," [Charlton] Heston said. "Then all handguns. Next thing you know, the law would deny our citizens' children the personal freedom to blow holes through their own legs."
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Flawless. That's biting. Anyone else notice the first person they talk to is the uncle?  This was my favourite line: quote:Marveling at the rite of passage that all females make from girlhood into entirely disempowered objecthood, Hayes expressed confidence that the 17-year-old would one day become a highly prized physical possession for “one lucky guy.” Cold.
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Oh, they actually went outside and talked to real people this time, instead of just firing off a few satirical blurbs real quick. Shame. I guess the writers were feeling lazy. Glad they still used the fake pictures, though. Privacy is important.
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The best bit from the dog one was when they
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How many actual apologies have they issued? This is the first one I've seen that wasn't part of their joke corrections section. I read that on Facebook this morning waiting for the gag, and then it was like "Oh. They're legitimately sorry for something. For what?" and I had to look elsewhere to find it. Nobody's perfect, I suppose, but I'm surprised that tweet even got the green light. I have the feeling just about everything they do is controlled quite tightly. The joke just seemed kinda low. Like, if they were going for "projecting the hatred that older celebs get on a 9-year-old kid" there were probably better ways to do it. Anyway, I understand that fearlessness is important in the kind of satire The Onion produces, but I think apologizing was the right thing to do in this circumstance.
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Jesus, I get it now. It's the most meta as all gently caress thing The Onion has ever done. They've forced everyone else to make the joke for them. Good God it's brilliant!
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YouTube passed a milestone yesterday, saying their viewership has reached 1 billion people. Meanwhile, the real news reported another, more important milestone.
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ultrafilter posted:Crisis Averted When Tennessee Lawmakers Discover Muslim Foot Bath Is Actually Just a Mop Sink God drat it. It's practically written like an Onion article up until they pull out the AP source. 
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I can't wait for this one to start showing up on Literally Unbelievable President Personally Performs First Obamacare Euthanization quote:"Today was great. I enjoyed this.” Please tell me this catches at least one local talk radio host, or high profile Tea Partier somewhere, like the Abortionplex one. Posting a classic, it was the one before Hot Girl is Way Psycho, Wacky Morning DJ Faces Crisis of Journalistic Ethics quote:"I have a responsibility to provide unbiased wake-up zaniness, hard-rocking hits and celebrity impressions, and that's a responsibility I don't take lightly. If I were to get in bed with every car dealer and theme restaurant that wants sponsorship, morning radio would soon be no better than the commercial wasteland of evening drive-time." HackensackBackpack has a new favorite as of 21:01 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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Speaking of dads! Negligent Father Isn't Building a Castle to Protect Family From Apocalypse. I guess it's a tie-in to some reality show on National Geographic I've never heard of and won't watch because I don't have that channel, but it's still pretty good. The ending, as always, is a nice kicker.
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Here's my favourite 9/11 related article, from last year. 18-Year-Old Fighting In Afghanistan Has 9/11 Explained To Him By Older Soldier I am torn on whether or not to blank-post the picture of the 9/11 Subway deal on my Facebook wall tomorrow, or if I should just go into a Subway with a printed off version of it. Do you think they'd honour it?  Maybe it depends on the franchisee.
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Robert Denby posted:Mia Farrow: ‘It’s Possible My Son Was Fathered By Frank Sinatra, Mario Puzo, George McGovern, Robert Altman, Anthony Perkins, Milton Berle, Robert Redford, Michael Caine, Danny Aiello, Or Bruce Dern. Or Maybe Francis Ford Coppola, John Cassavetes, Tony Curtis, Dustin Hoffman, Quincy Jones, Sydney Pollack, Joe Mantegna, Liam Neeson, Tom Courtenay, Bob Balaban, Or Even William Hurt' This reminds me of their classic headline about JFK being shot. Some of their old front pages are great. Stalin announces 5-year 'Everybody Dies' Plan Bumper sticker industry applauds Roe v. Wade decision India's Nationalist Leader Pummeled Senseless By Practitioners Of British 'Violence' Movement
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Kuvo posted:Adopted Child Sick Of Gay Parents Forcing Him To Watch Them Have Sex I really hope it gets picked up by some backwater politician or talk show host. 
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Diamond Joe is at it again. God, I hope Biden runs for President in 2016 and wins. I don't want the Diamond Joe articles to ever stop.
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Thanks to this thread I've gone through a couple of their older videos again. Police say school shooter had history of school shootings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGEkOR-LGyE Survivors of gas station explosion mourn tragic loss of gas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edl0l3VaIks
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Sometimes I have trouble loading Clickhole vidoes and it just plays the beef jerky ad over and over, and I think that's intentional. It's still a funny site, though.
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Robert Denby posted:Speaking of... I'm going to miss Joe Biden when he's gone. ultrafilter posted:The Ukraine Crisis Explained In GIFs And In-Depth Policy Papers From Esteemed Political Institutions This, however, is probably the best ClickHole I've seen yet. Pro click.
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ClickHole is the best thing ever. I'll sit through that Jack Links Jerky ad 100 times for these videos. We Put A GoPro On Grandpa To See What Heaven Looked Like
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Zohar posted:I know this thread is turning into 'post every clickhole article' but This is it. This is amazing. ClickHole can stop now.
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Clickhole has a new Facebook profile picture.  And they want Uncle George to share their stuff.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yeah but Clickhole is also really, really funny so unlike 95% of actual performance art it's worth paying attention to. It really baffles me that The Onion and everything it has produced has been so consistently brilliant for this long. This makes me think of a recent thing on Facebook where the much poorer satirical site The National Report put out this article saying Facebook was going to start charging users $3 a month to use Facebook, but you could waive the fees by typing "I'M POOR #FacebookFees" or whatever the hell in your status. Also, they gave out the phone number for the Westboro Baptist Church as the customer service number for Facebook. The article wasn't very funny, and had some poo poo "quote" from some idiot they made up, but it did what TNR does and got people a bit riled up for a few minutes. There's something about the Onion's writing that's just so much better. Yes, they make up stories and attribute false quotes to real people, but there's more to it than "lol, we lied." I wonder if it has to do with the fact that so many people know the Onion is satire and it frees them up to be more creative, maybe. Granted, Literally Unbelievable show some people still don't get it (but their submissions lately have been pretty lame), but when it comes to sites like The National Report or the Daily Currant, or The Beaverton, it doesn't seem to me like there's any greater commentary.
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And it was on a Tuesday and everything! 
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I am still in awe over how good ClickHole is. 7 Nihilistic Quotes That Only Brilliant, Misunderstood Young Males On The Internet Will Appreciate M'Listicle.
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I took ClickHole's latest quiz, How many bones do you have? and I got All The Bones!  I was secretly hoping they'd throw in some extra ones to throw you off, like baby bones, and then they could say you were a baby at the end.
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