God bless the goddamn Onion

6. A skeleton does a crazy dance, but then the GIF stops and asks the user to enter his or her credit card information to see more fun skeleton dancing

Doesn’t really matter what the dance is, as long as the skeleton looks funny.

post animated gifs of dancing skeletons

clickhole has its moments but i'm not getting how "hey everybody, look how ironic it is that this is what it is, do you get it, i get it" can survive past the initial first week or two

onion coasted on that for 25 years bruh

i didn't think non-satire clickbait would last either but here we are

^^

A friend of mine pointed out that 90% of Onion articles are just truth in the format of news.

http://matablog.matadorrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/harvey_head_big.jpg

most news is like that too iirc

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sonny-corleone-would-still-be-alive-today-if-he-ha,36297

10. Not sure how we’d do this or what would be in it, but the idea is that the first time you view the GIF, it’s not funny at all and is very confusing. None of the pieces seem to fit together. You can’t discern the whole image. But the second time you view it, it becomes very funny. Your laughter is sudden, irrepressible and hard to explain. You feel liberated and even cruel. The third time, however—and for reasons just as obscure to you—the GIF makes you terribly sad. During the third iteration, you desperately want to cry, but you feel that doing so would ruin something fleeting.

Again, we don’t know what’s in this GIF, but it’d repeat every 4 or 5 seconds. Blue background.

total karl malone vibes

Haha yes I was just coming here to say the same about that :)

12. Stephen Hawking dunking a basketball from the free throw line, then pumping his fist

NOTE: Should be clear in the GIF that we’re NOT making fun of Stephen Hawking. If anything, we are on his side, laughing with him.

gtfo

i'm late on this but that clavin and hobbes video, whoo boy

calvin and hobbes. clavin and hobbes would be something else altogether.

now imagining a version of that video with norm fucking cliff

You say that as if we probably can't Google one up right now.

whats even funnier abt the calvin and hobbes video is how it spits out when shared on facebook:

http://i.imgur.com/ZgcvUBD.png

ha! pvmic

I made a thread Bait My Clickhole

OK lol
http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/aerosmith-angry-you-328

Trayce you're not baiting my clickhole

and now for an awesome non-clickhole slideshow:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/names-for-william-h-macy-around-the-world,36336/

A Croatian friend explained to me that Kevin Costner is Croatian for "your mother's chiropractor."

That may be the single greater fact I know.

Breaking: LeBron James Leaning Toward Joining Al-Qaeda

Thought for sure that would have something to do with Binyam Mohammed
http://o.aolcdn.com/photo-hub/news_gallery/6/4/649107/1265844393775.JPEG

whoa

http://www.theonion.com/video/the-onion-reviews-dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes,36436/

ha ha awesome

http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-finds-humans-only-animals-capable-of-recogni,36444/

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/26/26592/original/700.jpg?8037

*gasp*

lol @ clarence thomas

genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwSzuIW_Klc

Oh my god, that's great.

haha that is great

yeah love that

Lol'd at Lance Armstrong with the N64, also respect for importing the JDM version of Mario Kart 64 instead of waiting for the American release, cause otherwise they would have had to say 1997 ;)

http://www.theonion.com/video/comiccon-exclusive-michael-bay-gives-fans-sneak-pe,36528/

wish their vid player wouldn't crap out on me every time

that's real funny tho

The crawl/ticker on that is pretty funny: "Hollywood community shocked, saddened that Charlie Sheen was found alive in his home."

That was in one of those not-quite-The-Onions right after Phillip Seymour Hoffman died.

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/02/02/charlie-sheen-found-alive-in-his-new-york-apartment-aged-48/

BuzzFeed Writer Resigns In Disgrace After Plagiarizing ‘10 Llamas Who Wish They Were Models’
NEWS • Our Annual Year 2013 • News Media • Internet • News • ISSUE 49•22 • May 29, 2013

BuzzFeed Politics Writer Is Fired Over Plagiarism
By RAVI SOMAIYA JULY 26, 2014

so... you're saying the *next* TMNT movie will actually have CGI peni?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-law-requires-welfare-recipients-to-submit-swea,36626/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/dates-flaws-coming-at-woman-faster-than-she-can-ra,36629/

last paragraph ftw