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BrooklynBruiser posted:And up next in the holy poo poo file: Nick Jr. Suspends Production On 'The Almighty Muhammad's Porkalicious Toon Jihad' I hope that Muslim extremists understand satire.
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The Huffington Post has a list of times that famous people have been fooled by The Onion.
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Hilarious! The screen grab:  They even added a Tehran dateline to it before copying the original story word-for-word. And now The Onion has added this to the original: "For more on this story: Please visit our Iranian subsidiary organization, Fars."
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Sep 29, 2012 01:04
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Sometimes on Literally Unbelievable I think that people are just reacting to the headline and didn't bother to read it. But the fact that that story was edited proves that the person who posted it on the news site actually read the article and didn't spot the satire!
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Oct 1, 2012 04:41
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Also on the Iranian blunder, CNN has the story, which includes a quote from the editor of The Onion:quote:Without breaking from its farce, Onion Editor Will Tracy wrote in an e-mail that Fars is a subsidiary and has been "our Middle Eastern bureau since the mid 1980s, when the Onion's publisher, T. Herman Zweibel, founded Fars with the government approval of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
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A new ad for The Onion Book Of Known Knowledge is up on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhnaO67xYpY
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Oct 23, 2012 19:49
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Who Dat posted:It's probably been posted, but this has always been my favorite. Another favorite dream-related video: Today Now! Chef Cooks 'Dream Omelet' That Came To Him In A Dream. It features Jim Haggarty and cooking! 
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Similarly, This May Not Be The Ideal Moment Politically, But It’s Time To Talk Reparations. And it's already shown up on Literally Unbelievable, no surprise there!
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Bhodi posted:Just a picture, but the headline says it all. On the same page, 
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Nov 9, 2012 20:56
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They are having a lot of fun with the resignation of CIA Director Petraeus:
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Nov 13, 2012 00:13
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They link to the article in The Onion, so they decided to roll with the gag. I just wish that they have put more effort into it.
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Nov 13, 2012 00:45
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Isn't it against most ad services TOS to literally beg for ad clicks? Yes, but it's a link to an ad on YouTube, not a click-thru, so I think that's allowed. It reminds me of one of my favorites: Failing U.S. Economy No Reason At All To Stop Investing In Print Media, All Experts Agree
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Nov 27, 2012 22:06
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:This isn't from the Onion, but China's party paper falls for Onion joke about Kim The Onion has updated the original story: "For more coverage on The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive 2012, Kim Jong-Un, please visit our friends at the People's Daily in China, a proud Communist subsidiary of The Onion, Inc. Exemplary reportage, comrades." Zugzwang posted:For content, here's another great one from back then: Dog Urine Lowers Heart-Attack Risk, Say Snickering Researchers Another great joke about scientists: Anthropologists Trace Human Origins Back To One Large Goat. 'Wait, That Can't Be Right,' Scientists Say.
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A timely story: Powerball Winners Already Divorced, Bankrupt And a great one from Literally Unbelievable: 
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timefly posted:That is literally unbelievable. Yes more Americans died on Friday than total casualties of WWI but you just didn't notice. From the Seinfeld episode, "The Stranded": Jerry: (noticing a coffee table book) Oh, you got the Civil War book. I saw some of that show. It was wonderful. Elaine: Six hundred and twenty million people died! Jerry: Thousand. Elaine: Thousand! Six hundred and twenty thousand! The horror, the horror. Some people have a poor grasp of magnitudes. For example, 80 billion tons of garbage is meaningless to me. I looked it up, and for comparison, the entire world produces 1.3 billion tonnes of waste each year.
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Totally TWISTED posted:Video: Shocking report says even the smallest horse bite can be harmful to newborn babies They put a lot of great effort into that one. And, of course, someone was fooled: 
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Just in time for Christmas: The Onion's Gift Guide For Kids. The "Mr. Mouth" sounds like a gift that a child would never forget!
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Jerusalem posted:I kinda half hope the following becomes a regular running theme ala Diamond Joe: I was hoping that this story would come up on Literally Unbelievable eventually, and we finally hit comedy paydirt: 
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Dec 14, 2012 20:37
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An earlier Onion article: NRA Sets 1,000 Killed In School Shooting As Amount It Would Take For Them To Reconsider Much Of Anything
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Dec 14, 2012 23:19
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A new video: Mayan Word For 'Apocalypse' Actually Translates More Accurately As 'Time Of Pale Obese Gun Monsters'
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A video on gun control from the short-lived IFC show: New Law Legalizes Brandishing Guns At Head Level
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Russell Crowe Praised For Stunning Portrayal Of Man Who Cannot Sing Or Act In 'Les Misérables'
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The Onion just published a satire of U.S. gun control: Gorilla Sales Skyrocket After Latest Gorilla Attack Brilliant.
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Just announced: The Onion will be releasing an e-book on Friday, an "autobiography" of Vice President Biden. The title is The President of Vice. To promote the book, the Onion will be having an Ask Me Anything on Reddit the same day, answering questions as Diamond Joe.
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That DICK! posted:The other time I saw him reacting to the Diamond Joe, he mentioned the Trans-Am thing. I think it is really hilariously consistent with the Diamond Joe character that of all the poo poo printed about him in those articles, the one thing he consistently takes issue with is that they get his car wrong. From the Ask Me Anything: Q: [Joe Biden] A Trans-Am? Ever look under the hood of a Corvette? A: Those glorified Camaros aint good for nothing but smokin' the tires. Q: What's this we're hearing about you being a Corvette guy? A: I might be wiggin' out a little right now, but I think there's some imposter out there spreading bad poo poo about me. I'll tell ya right now, whatever they say nothing can come between me and my Zam.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Thanks, old white dude! And thank you, Google AdSense!
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jojoinnit posted:Was this series popular? I hadn't seen it before. A relevant one: Historical Archives: 14 Are Killed In 6-Hour-Long Schoolhouse Musket Shooting.
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Zugzwang posted:In between bouts of contemplating moving to one of the uninhabited islands off the coast of Alaska until ads for "Identity Thief" stop being shown, I thought of this Onion article: Vindictive Movie Studio Threatens To Make 'Coyote Ugly' Sequel It reminds me of this recent one: Nation's Movie Theaters Bracing For 'Hansel And Gretel' Being Perhaps The Biggest Hit Of All Time
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Speaking of awful puns, here's a report from their IFC show on medical marijuana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLlhQmDLazs
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One of my favorite Kelly cartoons:
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This just in: Vice President Biden has announced that he is not running for the papacy. I immediately pictured a Pope Diamond Joe.
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Feb 12, 2013 07:25
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DaveWoo posted:UPDATE: NRA Lobbyist Confident That Murder Of 20 Children By Crazed Gunman Will Soon Blow Over I thought that that would be a link to The Onion, but holy poo poo, it's real.
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The Crotch posted:As far as articles go, my standing favourite is I Don't Even Want To Be Alive Anymore by Rush Limbaugh. A classic video: Victim in Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-faCh8BUEts
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One of the news-ticker items: "Pope Announces Harebrained Plan To Lose Virginity Over Spring Break Trip." Maybe that's the reason Popes have never been allowed to resign: Danger! Contents under pressure!
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It is similar to this classic: New 'Anti-Abortion Pill' Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus Alive. It still pops up sometimes on Literally Unbelievable.
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The latest Kelly: It figures that he would be one of those assholes that grab fistfuls of coins from the penny tray.
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Nouvelle Vague posted:I thought what they were going for is that she's clearly not or we're supposed to find it ridiculous that people would say such a thing? Of course it was. I am reminded of Sean Lock's rant about horrible acting by children on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
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Ariong posted:Dude, they called a child a oval office for a joke that wasn't very good. It made people uncomfortable. That's why they are upset. Why are you being so indignant about it? Who's getting indignant? Baron von Eevl posted:I think it almost would have been funnier if there never was a tweet and they just issued a lengthy apology implying some crazy things over something that never happened. They do this sort of joke all the time in the corrections section. Some recent ones:
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Feb 25, 2013 19:24
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The Onion's coverage of the Academy Awards reminds me of this article: Teacher Of The Year Awards 'A Fashion Nightmare'.
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The Onion is right on top of current events again. Bob Woodward has just claimed that the White House threatened him over his coverage of the budget sequester, but the "threat" turned out to be nothing. The Onion now has this story: Anonymous Source Informs Bob Woodward He Hasn't Been Relevant In 40 Years.
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