http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/95_96_prayers_finally
I was laughing at this until the very end. That last joke seems unusually mean-spirited for the Onion.
― Nathan, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
um, the christopher reeve snipe was hardly cricket.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
True. I guess that somehow escaped me when I first read it.
― Nathan, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
i liked this one because is not jello a foods
[a hrarf = this is my internets link] http://www.theonion.com/content/news/conceptual_terrorists_encase_sears[/a hraf linkthing]
― a puppy, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
I have to say, for having webbed toes you are impressively skilled at typing.
― Abbott, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
a hrarf!
― G00blar, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
I don't get why everybody's blaming the puppy for not being Socialist Realism or somethink.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
I don't even know what that means and I am a hu-man.
― Abbott, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
who blames a puppy i am lerning better, promise the psyientests are teaching me
― a puppy, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
I didn't express myself very clearly.
Anyway, if y'all thought the "95-96 Prayers Backlog" was cold, look what I stumbled across:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29919
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
okay that is awesome
― HI DERE, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
the onion's had a hardon for superman for awhile - http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30382
― balls, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
whose balls are you, i am lookinf for mine
― a puppy, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
― balls, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
i kinda forgot abt the onion but this was posted on the quantum mechanic thread and it is funnee http://www.theonion.com/content/news/scientists_ask_congress_to_fund_50
― rrrobyn, Friday, 19 October 2007 03:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
They've really been on a roll with the cartoons - they're probably my favorite thing in the Onion now.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
One of my more flattering caricatures.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ha.
I also really love that every so often there will be an editorial cartoon about the cartoonist's ex-wife.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
lol
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 2 November 2007 04:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
I read the last word wrong and thought this was gonna be about
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 2 November 2007 04:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Frogman Henry, Friday, 2 November 2007 09:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
who's that on the right? Jabba the Hutt?
― Heave Ho, Friday, 2 November 2007 10:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/mel_brooks_starts_nonprofit
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
o shi i hadn't seen these cartoons before -- awesome.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
"After my baby didn't babble or gesture after 12 months, I hoped the cause was autism. I've since learned he's dead."
― That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
Haha OMG:
First Indian-American Governor ElectedWith his swearing in as governor of Louisiana on Monday, Republican Bobby Jindal became the first Indian-American to head a U.S. state. What do you think?Dave Piedmont, Systems Analyst "His parents must be so close to being proud."
With his swearing in as governor of Louisiana on Monday, Republican Bobby Jindal became the first Indian-American to head a U.S. state. What do you think?
Dave Piedmont, Systems Analyst "His parents must be so close to being proud."
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 January 2008 01:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
Steven Seagal is...
― Kerm, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/act_now_to_take_advantage_of_my
story of my life
― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
lol "Skeepers"
― Jordan, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
haha deja vu
me: http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/act_now_to_take_advantage_of_my Sent at 4:31 PM on Wednesday Jordan: haha lol "skeepers"
― deej, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
: /
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
that's totally the lowered-standards look
... anonymous sex with me that I'll begin to regret it as it's happening? oh double-edged zing
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 23:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/75350
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
Haha, i worked at the Skeepers in Ann Arbor from '98 - '00.
― kingfish, Saturday, 8 March 2008 03:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 15 March 2008 13:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Microwave Quietly Encouraged"
― calstars, Saturday, 15 March 2008 13:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
the onion magazine + editorial cartoons are my fav shit now
― and what, Saturday, 15 March 2008 14:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
Kelly is a genius.
― Bodrick III, Saturday, 15 March 2008 14:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/you_know_whats_stupid
One of my fave pieces for a long time, great concept.
― Bodrick III, Saturday, 15 March 2008 14:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
Bob can go fuck himself for those shoes/boots.
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 15 March 2008 17:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
wow that link is one of the least funny Onion pieces I've read. Diff'rent strokes.
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 15 March 2008 17:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
I think it's funny.
― chap, Saturday, 15 March 2008 17:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
that craig kilborn bit they did a few months ago (which i conveniently cannot find a link to right now) was one of the best things they've ever done
― the sir weeze, Saturday, 15 March 2008 18:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 15 March 2008 17:25
Think it's because this character = almost everybody I work with.
They have trouble understanding complex, intellectual ideas like "Maybe not every problem with the UK today can be blamed on asylum seekers."
― Bodrick III, Saturday, 15 March 2008 20:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_is_the_government
― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 15 March 2008 21:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah, i like it too. I usually enjoy their "explicitly deconstructing thoughtless everyday habits" bits.
― kingfish, Saturday, 15 March 2008 21:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
Haha this joke would appear to be entirely coincidental, and yet ...
COLUMN: Smoove B signs off -- "Girl, there comes a time when even a strong, well-dressed man must admit defeat."
AMERICAN VOICES TOPIC: "Farmers Planting Less Corn"
― nabisco, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
i'm dying here.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's also a take on the old "this is the woman I knew I'd spend the rest of my life with" thing.
― nickn, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
umm... duh. but to matt, i don't think the media treated their relationship like any other relationship so that satire is sort of irrelevant. like, if anything i was uncomfortable with the critiques of rihanna's decision to get back with brown because they seemed to come more from a place of victim blaming rather than concern ("can you believe it??" etc). in general i just wish that celebrity gossip wasn't a thing
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:51 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
although i get that this situation was an important instance to talk about the problem of domestic violence and so in that sense it was worth talking about. so yeah, i get what you are saying: their relationship shouldn't have just been another source of gossip. i still don't like the onion article though.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Niche Online Message Board Takes Issue With The Onion The Internet
― surm, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:06 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I LOL'd at this
http://www.theonion.com/articles/snooze-button-time-traveler-sets-coordinates-for-5,32339/
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:11 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i don't quite get why ppl would be pissed about the chris brown story? i guess its one of those 'dark humor trivializes bad things' sort of reactions? sigh
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:58 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, May 7, 2013 9:11 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah liked that one, but again an example of the whole joke being in the headline, no further text needed
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Nah I enjoyed the breakdown of the space-age time travel gear and traveler set against a mundane slacker groaning at what feels to him like instant time jumps. I enjoyed the body but yeah it would have worked as headline only too.
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 03:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
lol hurting's point reminds of this mad magazine parody of the onion roughly 12 years ago, odds are the last time mad magazine will make me laff -
― balls, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 05:47 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
that reminds me, anyone know the story behind the turnover going on at av club?
― balls, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 05:49 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i think a bunch of them are leaving together to start a new site, or something.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 06:00 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
interesting, i knew the longtime av club editor either quit or was fired (it felt like fired) months ago and then hyden split for grantland then i noticed scott tobias left (that guy along w/ noah murray and donna bowman had a weirdly large influence on my film taste and education when i was in high school and they were in college), then rabin who fbow is their defining voice or whatever and i thought 'ok something is definitely going on'. wondered if it was just high visibility and new eic prompting mass consideration of other pastures or if there was something more organized going on.
― balls, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 06:11 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
the chris brown thing belongs in the daily mash
― caek, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 07:39 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
A friend in the know tells me that Phipps was let go and that the others then jumped ship to join him, in solidarity, on a new site he's starting.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 12:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I like that mad parody. It reminds me of my college weekly paper days, when we (the pretentious/artsy weekly) did a parody issue of the daily, and then the other weekly (sort of a ziney/gross-out thing) did a great parody of us, nailing in particular our jargon-laden reviews of obscure indie music.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:34 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
That was like the only thing the Medium did that was funny
― los blue jeans, Friday, 10 May 2013 19:37 (1 week ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/24yearold-receives-sage-counsel-from-venerable-27y,32515/
actually has a punchline even
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 20:24 (2 days ago) Permalink
Think I'll put this in the American Politics thread as well.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/our-thoughts-go-out-to-oklahoma-says-congressman-m,32514/
― nickn, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 20:44 (2 days ago) Permalink
lol @ punchline xp
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:07 (2 days ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/father-excitedly-tells-10yearold-son-about-new-vid,32518/
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:36 (2 days ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-derives-depressing-amount-of-pride-from-hometo,32510/
Man Derives Depressing Amount Of Pride From Hometown Burger Chain
it's funny because it's true.
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 08:25 (Yesterday) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/woman-who-cracked-3-separate-iphone-screens-expect,32538/
PHILADELPHIA—Samantha Curtis, a 29-year-old sales clerk who has reportedly cracked three separate iPhone screens over the years, is due to give birth to a baby boy this coming August, sources confirmed.
The expectant mother, who has accidentally damaged a trio of smartphone displays by either dropping her iPhone, allowing it to collide with other items in her purse, or losing control of it when absentmindedly spinning it on a tabletop, said she is “thrilled” to bring her new child into the world.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 17:35 (Yesterday) Permalink
lmao
― caek, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:54 (Yesterday) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-fed-grapes-while-urging-press-conference-to,32540/
― goole, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:53 (Yesterday) Permalink
I read quite a bit (maybe all) of Infinite Jest believing Whataburger was a made-up restaurant.
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Thursday, 23 May 2013 05:27 (14 hours ago) Permalink