God bless the goddamn Onion

ganesh some

is it just me or have they been really daring lately?

I think a lot of this is angry writers who didn't make the move to Chicago and figure their days are numbered, so why not go for it?

I think the angry Onion writers who did not make the move are no longer writers.If anything, maybe it's an attention getting move from the writers who did make the move, as well as the new writers the old, ex writers prematurely denigrated.

I kinda feel like its a cyclical thing with The Onion, they get kinda stale for awhile and then every so often they'll unleash a string of stuff that pushes the limits.

that sounds right

what is this move you speak of?

the onion moved their editorial offices to chicago (where their corporate hq has been for some time) this summer

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2012/03/onions-bumpy-ride-chicago/50149/

1 group that hasn't moved yet: video. that move is going to happen, though. enjoy sex house while you've got it.

It ended yesterday, so perfect timing!

Although the video dept. was still based in NY at the time, Sex House was shot in Chicago with Chicago actors. So you neeeever knoooooow.

ohhh

where had they been located?

When the sex house writers were on reddit they were saying they'd been onion writers for a while who didn't want to move to Chicago and wouldn't be doing so. I think normal onion video (the spoof news and sport stuff) has all moved to chicago, but the 'onion digital studios' stuff like sex house is funded by youtube and will be staying in nyc?

Surprised me that they're not still in Madison, actually!

The Onion is in the midst of the biggest upheaval in the newspaper's 24-year history.

Holy shit, I feel really old. 24 years!?

yeah`, onion for me has always been a madison thing. feel good about them moving back to the midwest.

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If it helps, The Onion was largely a local phenomenon for the first half of its existence. It wasn't until the implementation of the website and mass distribution around the turn of the century that the world-at-large knew anything about it.

think the "creative economy," to use a loathsome but I hope descriptive term, is much stronger if everybody isn't operating out of the same town

I got into it through my brother in the mid-to-late-90s, but he had been in college (in Georgia) and presumably it had a decent college-town alt-weekly type circulation. I remember he had the one with "Christ Returns to NBA," which is dated 1996. So it was a "thing" before the internet although obviously it's way way bigger now.

I first discovered it when I started my freshman year at Illinois in 1994, with one of my all-time favorite covers with the Thompson Changes Title from 'Governor' to 'Sexecutioner' with an awesome cust and paste job showing Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson in full S&M gear.

96 was around when their website started - I'm pretty sure I remember that headline (though I may have been backtracking)

Yeah, when they started the website they put up a lot of their old covers. I'm 99% sure that was from the fall of '94 because I remember my roommate's mom getting offended upon seeing it up in our floor lounge.

Ah no sorry, I meant "Christ Returns to NBA" - if I saw the other at any point then blessed forgetfulness has robbed me of it.

Oh gotcha, that was a great one too.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/local-lutheran-minister-loves-to-fuck-his-wife,854/

pretty sure this is the first issue of the onion i ever saw? i remember it being like samizdat smuggled in by someone's cool brother who went to school in wisconsin

"cool brother" and "went to school in wisconsin" are mutually exclusive

boom, take that midwesterners

when in doubt, go to stout

i am always a little amazed by how many fucking UWisc campuses there are --- like it's weird how it even affects how ppl talk about it, if you told someone that you went to the university of wisconsin you'd just get a blank look.

i want to say that california has a bigger system (they must, they have to), but i think for real that sconny is in the running

Wisconsin has fewer than Univeristy of California, but California also has the separate California State University system.

Sorry, I meant Wisconsin has more than UC.

does WI have only one system? MN has the U branches but also the whole MNSCU system

The University of Wisconsin system merged with the Wisconsin State University system in 1971 to create today's University of Wisconsin System. The 1971 merger law approved by the State Senate combined the two higher education systems in Wisconsin under a single Board of Regents, creating a system with 13 universities, 14 (now 13) freshman-sophomore centers (now colleges), and a statewide extension with offices in all 72 counties.

no shit, there's a UMN campus in rochester??

I thought there was just IBM and stuff

yup it's a new one. "STEM" only i think. plus nursing.

i drove through rochester once, i waved at the mayo

Man Drives Through Rochester, Makes Cursory Gesture To World-Famous Institution

Area Man Literally Salutes Medicine

http://www.theonion.com/articles/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-day,29588/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:quote:default

they are just on fire lately, to the point that i am tempted to actually subscribe as i feel they deserve it.

me irl

Yeah, I figure (and this is of course the point) that if I get forwarded more than 5 articles in a month where there's more going on than just the headline, then I might as well pony up.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/stephen-a-smith-thinking-son-is-finally-ready-for,29589/

Stephen A blowing his top on Twitter over this...

@stephenasmith

I thought I'd heard enough despicable lies about myself. Now there's some article out that I have a 9-yr-old son and I'm going to have a

Stephen A Smith ‏@stephenasmith

I thought I'd heard enough despicable lies about myself. Now there's some article out that I have a 9-yr-old son and I'm going to have a

Stephen A Smith ‏@stephenasmith

Conversation with him about Sex. Mind you, I neither have a son nor a 9-Year-old. Some ppl are beyond despicable. No end! Sad what extent

Stephen A Smith ‏@stephenasmith

People will go to. Amazing how folks try to tear cats down, primarily due to perceived power of the spoken word. Damn Shame, but too bad.

Stephen A Smith ‏@stephenasmith

Because I don't intend on going anywhere. Really, Really sad, though!

oops!

HAHA

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