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As someone who listens to probably more top 40 radio than is healthy, this hits eerily close. Pop Star's Single, 'Booty Wave', Most Likely Civilization's Downfall Today Now always feels like the most on the mark part of everything the Onion makes, it's disconcerting at times.
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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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Apr 11, 2012 03:57
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Yehudis Basya posted:Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory Whoa, this was from the Onion? They talked about it on QI a little while ago.
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May 17, 2012 02:48
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voting third party posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0App7QizQCU I came to post this. The Onion's been doing a couple videos of late that are less news-based and more parody of TV and Youtube stuff. Sex House is a favorite of mine already, but it'd be wrong not to appreciate Lake Dredge Appraisal, where part of the video making process I think included recording the video on a fifteen year old VHS that used to have a TV-recorded edit of Star Wars on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTifcI4A0jM Cleretic has a new favorite as of 04:34 on Jul 20, 2012 |
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Jul 20, 2012 04:31
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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.
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Aug 3, 2012 03:56
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The Week In Review headline loving Oasis To Probably Be Worked Into Olympics Opening Ceremony (I can't find if this was an actual article) got funnier come the closing ceremony.
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Aug 14, 2012 03:58
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Robert Denby posted:I stopped watching them after the first two or three. If you read the articles you're getting the exact same jokes. Have they changed the format any since it started? They got a better narrator after about six Week in Reviews, and sometimes they do have additional interviews and such. I thought it quite added to "Coworker With Two Computer Screens Not loving Around".
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Sep 24, 2012 03:53
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Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity was clearly written by someone very frustrated, and I like it for that.
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Jan 17, 2013 08:09
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On the subject of solid last lines, the ending of Health Officials Urging Americans To Do Something, Anything For 30 Minutes A Day gave me one of the biggest, most honest laughs I've had for a while. The rest of it's good too, but that ending line is brilliant.
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Feb 25, 2013 00:29
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There was a show on a couple weeks ago here in Australia, about the shows that got the most complaints to the ABC (government-funded TV network), including interviews with the people behind it. After a clip of a deadpan review of the act of murdering a minor Australian celebrity (that nobody likes) that caused a lot of outcry from a commercial network he had a contract with, they had an interview with the man who wrote and performed the show, who basically said that 'when writing controversial comedy, the most important thing is that it has to be funny'. That's why they're apologizing. The Onion have done controversial articles before, and they're often some of their best, but this tweet failed Black Comedy 101: It has to actually be funny.
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Feb 26, 2013 02:20
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cobalt2009 posted:http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-angerpowered-cars-may-revolutionize-the-way-we,1118/ The thing that jump out most at me here is that the Chevrolet Tantrum looks amazing and I want it. That's a photoshopped version of an actual car, right?
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Mar 10, 2013 00:03
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Okay, it might not be the funniest Onion thing ever? But it's definitely the biggest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0 Read the description, the Onion co-created it. It also made me like some people I really, really hate.
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Apr 2, 2013 10:03
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Doggboat posted:This is the most touching obituary of Ebert I have read so far. the problem with great obituaries is that one of my first responses to this was 'someone should show this to Roger Ebert'.
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Apr 5, 2013 01:23
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Sponsored Content Pretty loving Awesome The Onion has a subsection entirely devoted to getting paid by companies to make fun of them.
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May 18, 2013 02:42
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I have been reminded of my favorite Onion video because of a related subject in AusPol. "New Live Poll Lets Pundits Pander to Viewers In Real Time". There's just so much brilliance in their depiction of The Worm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFpK_r-jEXg
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Aug 5, 2013 16:42
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I saw this on the sidebar and just had to. Elmore Leonard, Modern Prose Master, Noted For His Terse Prose Style And For Writing About Things Perfectly And Succinctly With A Remarkable Economy Of Words, Unfortunately And Sadly Expired This Gloomy Tuesday At The Age Of 87 Years Old
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Aug 21, 2013 01:19
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Play4Real is a satirical gaming news site that I've been reading ever since Majority of Gamers Today Can't Finish Level 1 In Super Mario Bros got picked up by an embarrassing number of real gaming news sites and spawned countless "casuals These guys are almost cheating, because apparently gamers are complete loving idiots and can't recognize the fact it's satire. Even if they're not funny, the fact it keeps working is.
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Oct 23, 2013 23:26
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" arguments across the internet. It's nowhere near Onion quality and it has that problem where it feels like they came up with a joke headline and then wrote the article as an afterthought, but it can be funny.
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Dec 24, 2013 05:59
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Peter Rosenthal discusses the Academy Awards. Truly, an insightful look into the movies on offer in the past year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL2TIlm-9oM Honeslty if the Onion Film Standard isn't your favorite thing right now, I don't know what to tell you.
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Mar 1, 2014 14:22
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Captain Mog posted:Has there ever been an Onion article that was just straight-up a true news story? It would be hysterical if they reported on something some crazy Republican guy said and it was 100% true. Muscleman Put In Charge of World's Fifth-Largest Economy
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Mar 19, 2014 04:27
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Onion Talks is back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpNgsU9o4ik
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Mar 26, 2014 04:22
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muscles like this? posted:Is Orko the only result? No, I got Cheetarah. Or Donatello. Or Cheetarah.
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Sep 2, 2014 10:09
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Ishamael posted:I am fascinated to see what articles become fodder for Literally Unbelievable. The weirdest part about the braindead teen repostings is hat it's only started happening again more recently. That video's like five years old, and for most of its life it hasn't been as popular among idiots as it has recently.
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Oct 2, 2014 02:21
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6 American Television Shows That Started In England
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The Film Standard's Oscar special was pretty great, too.
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Krinkle posted:6 Things That Could’ve Been Bought With The $1.5 Trillion The Government Spent Developing The F-35 Fighter Jet That Australia bought seventy-two of, well after it was known how much of a failure they were, yes. And even if it can fly, it can only do so for like, less than an hour. The list of faults with the F-35 would look like an Onion article if you read them all in one. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 11:03 on Jun 3, 2015 |
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Jun 3, 2015 11:00
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Man Recalls Desperate, Exhausting 14-Month Job Search That Made Him Want To Get Into Sales Yeah... yeah, that sounds right 
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Jun 22, 2015 15:06
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Company Immediately Calls Job Applicant Upon Seeing 'B.A. In Communications' On Résumé. Still one of my favorites. As someone with a B.A. in communications, this hits almost too close to home.
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Jul 2, 2015 04:09
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Leofish posted:I want Kelly shirts. Not like shirts with Kelly comics on them, but shirts that say "TODAY'S NO GOOD TEENS" on them. Pair it with an 'HONEST HARD-WORKING AMERICANS' shirt. Both may have a small corresponding Lady Liberty on the bottom. I will also accept a 'TODAY'S LATEST GIZMO' iPhone case, or something to that respect.
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Sep 9, 2015 05:39
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Starfix was one of the funniest parts of the Onion's video content, so I'm pretty happy about this.
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Sep 17, 2015 04:38
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prefect posted:I'm not sure it's right to be getting my real news from the Onion thread. I'm pretty sure these things have stopped qualifying as 'news'.
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Oct 1, 2015 23:39
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My new answer for 'article that represents your life' is Actual Problem A Nice Change Of Pace For Anxious Man, because while most of its details don't apply the crux of it somehow became good advice. I've been anxious as hell lately about approaching something in my life, and somehow the thing that eased my tension the most while on my way to a psychologist was loving up the public transport to their office. On my way to find that, though, I did find one hell of an article in the searching: Son, We'd All Like To Lie Around All Day Being 'Clinically Depressed'
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Apr 6, 2016 09:20
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How much do you know about President, uhm... Taft?
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May 7, 2016 10:36
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Oh hey, it's one of those small yet accurate stories. Hi mom, yes mom...
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May 17, 2016 11:25
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Omnomnomnivore posted:If People Think There’s A Quick Fix To Illegal Immigration They’re As Misguided As The Scientists In My Screenplay ‘Chronotaur: Labyrinth Of Time’ I love when they go whole-hog with describing genre schlock. And they clearly have so much fun with it. With a few modifications, I think this one's a solid Doctor Who two-parter.
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Jul 21, 2016 03:30
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Why are none of you talking about the greatest story of this Olympics? Such a small, young nation getting even the smallest spot on the world stage deserves credit, people.
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Aug 12, 2016 15:21
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I worry this is what I'm sounding like to all my American friends at this point.
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Nov 9, 2016 09:49
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Man Spends Whole Day Dreading Fun Activity he Signed Up For hits pretty close to home.
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Jan 28, 2017 06:27
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‘What If We Try This?’ Asks Robotics Grad Student About To Eliminate 30% Of Workforce I work in tech, and this exact line of thought (albeit on a lesser scale) goes through my mind constantly.
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I only got one boy. But he was really hot! But he brought his girlfriend. Something about this has a real Teen Girl Squad vibe.
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