The Mighty America's Finest News Source Thread
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The Mighty America's Finest News Source Thread
http://www.theonion.com/articles/smart- ... g-a,17954/
Fuck, The Onion's so awesome I think it finally deserves its own thread to lord upon.
Fuck, The Onion's so awesome I think it finally deserves its own thread to lord upon.
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Back in '96, when B and I were in NC, my folks came down to visit. We drove up to Virginia to see … something to do with Woodrow Wilson … and were listening to the news on the radio. There was a story about SC looking to buy other states' nuclear waste and sink it in the swamp. B, my mother, and I expressed various shades of horror, but my dad confidently said, "There are minds greater than ours working on these problems." He didn't enjoy my response that it was those same great minds that created those problems. But he was from a generation where experts and smart people solved problems (and didn't acknowledge the problems they caused).Rat Patrol wrote:http://www.theonion.com/articles/smart- ... g-a,17954/
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This is my all time favorite, also a classic: http://www.theonion.com/articles/clinto ... -iraq,645/
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I am such a bad person because I can't help but laugh at retard(ed) jokes.JennyB wrote:This is my all time favorite, also a classic: http://www.theonion.com/articles/clinto ... -iraq,645/
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It's weird because a friend of mine works there and I had the chance to, but most of the lower-ranking people who work there, like, write the video tickers or news in brief, have to submit 20, 40 ideas a week with minimal recycling, and there are a lot of rules about how to do shit. The atmosphere is shockingly corporate and not fun at all. Dude quit a job because the Onion ate up too much of his time each week. And for the year he's worked there, he's gotten a grand total of zero things on the front page. A lot of the ideas are for long-term in-development TV and web projects.
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That doesn't surprise me at all.Billy Joel wrote:It's weird because a friend of mine works there and I had the chance to, but most of the lower-ranking people who work there, like, write the video tickers or news in brief, have to submit 20, 40 ideas a week with minimal recycling, and there are a lot of rules about how to do shit. The atmosphere is shockingly corporate and not fun at all. Dude quit a job because the Onion ate up too much of his time each week. And for the year he's worked there, he's gotten a grand total of zero things on the front page. A lot of the ideas are for long-term in-development TV and web projects.
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I see that article much more as an indictment of people who go overboard to praise people solely for their developmental disabilities. Or so I keep telling myself.Dr. Medulla wrote:I am such a bad person because I can't help but laugh at retard(ed) jokes.JennyB wrote:This is my all time favorite, also a classic: http://www.theonion.com/articles/clinto ... -iraq,645/
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To be fair, high quality comedy, especially satire, isn't easy, so having a demanding structure around it probably is necessary. Writing has to be treated as a job; if you're just waiting for inspiration, you're going to spend a lot of time jerking off.JennyB wrote:That doesn't surprise me at all.Billy Joel wrote:It's weird because a friend of mine works there and I had the chance to, but most of the lower-ranking people who work there, like, write the video tickers or news in brief, have to submit 20, 40 ideas a week with minimal recycling, and there are a lot of rules about how to do shit. The atmosphere is shockingly corporate and not fun at all. Dude quit a job because the Onion ate up too much of his time each week. And for the year he's worked there, he's gotten a grand total of zero things on the front page. A lot of the ideas are for long-term in-development TV and web projects.
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Whatever. Don Tardos are just funny.JennyB wrote:I see that article much more as an indictment of people who go overboard to praise people solely for their developmental disabilities. Or so I keep telling myself.Dr. Medulla wrote:I am such a bad person because I can't help but laugh at retard(ed) jokes.JennyB wrote:This is my all time favorite, also a classic: http://www.theonion.com/articles/clinto ... -iraq,645/
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Oh definitely. The joke is on the overtly sensitive and reassuring types who make huge displays of everything. And yet, those goofy bastards are about the best thing I've got going.JennyB wrote:I see that article much more as an indictment of people who go overboard to praise people solely for their developmental disabilities. Or so I keep telling myself.Dr. Medulla wrote:I am such a bad person because I can't help but laugh at retard(ed) jokes.JennyB wrote:This is my all time favorite, also a classic: http://www.theonion.com/articles/clinto ... -iraq,645/
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Ancient but classic story: http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-dep ... of-pa,873/
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Could go in the MLB thread, but I'll give this one a bump.
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