God bless the goddamn Onion

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

A+

I *love* it when people are taken in by the Onion as real. Love it. Wasnt one of the harry potter/satanist ones a big stir amonst some christians groups?

Your every "taken in by The Onion" need catered for:
http://literallyunbelievable.org/

The Planned Parenthood $8 billion abortioplex was the best. People even put up reviews for it on Yelp. Grade A+ IRL trolling.

Just unstoppable these days:

Romney Apologizes To Nation's 150 Million 'Starving, Filthy Beggars'

SALT LAKE CITY—Seeking to limit the fallout from a videotaped speech in which he asserts 47 percent of Americans “pay no taxes” and do not take “personal responsibility and care for their lives,” Mitt Romney hastily called a press conference today to apologize personally to the “150 million starving, filthy beggars (he) might have offended.”

Saying that he deeply regretted his choice of words at a private $50,000-a-plate fundraising function in May—during which he argued “(his) job is not to worry” about the lower-earning half of the nation’s populace—Romney personally appealed to the country’s “dirt-caked garbage pickers and toothless street urchins” for forgiveness.

“First and foremost, I would like to offer a heartfelt apology to all the whores, junkies, bums, and grime-covered derelicts out there who make up nearly half our nation,” a visibly contrite and solemn Romney said outside a campaign stop at a local high school. “Let me assure you that I in no way meant to offend any of the putrid-smelling, barefoot masses out there. My campaign is not about dividing this nation, but about bringing all sides together—the rich, elegant members of the upper class, as well as the 47 percent who are covered in flies and eat directly from back-alley dumpsters.”

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_macxh1aWpm1qkt6yoo1_500.png
last comment explains so much...

otm

omgggg

ha jesus

http://www.theonion.com/articles/ask-an-auctioneer-revealing-he-was-molested-as-a-c,29601/

damn, that is DARK

Something that actually looks like it's from The Onion:
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/09/27/benjamin_netanyahu_AP800809689368_fullwidth_620x350.jpg

lolbibi

glad to see that Israel's christmas ornament sale fundraiser has almost met its goal

lol

front page of the NYT that one

http://www.theonion.com/articles/textingwhilefielding-causes-record-number-of-outfi,29735/

lol @ last line

Argh - the 'you have reached your limit' message now comes up in incognito mode in Chrome.