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Smeghead
10-11-2001, 08:20 PM
I've been reading the Onion for a long, long time. Every now and then, I remember some article from like five years back, and go search for it, only to find it's gone. Like:

"NASA, NASCAR merge" - possibly the funniest thing I've ever read. It had everything. A big photoshopped picture of the Space Shuttle on a race track with decals all over it. Quotes like "I don't think it's far, because that thing can go like eleventeen billion miles an hour." A mention of a 47-hour pit stop. And, my personal favorite, a report of the solid rocket booster being ejected into the stands, killing several thousand spectators.

"Taco Bell introduces slightly rearranged combination of ingredients." Something about how this was different than that because the beans are now on top of the cheese instead of underneath it. Plus it's on a slightly more oblong tortilla.

And, of course, the one that got me hooked on the Onion in the first place. I forget the title, but it was an editorial about how great the author's balls were. No, I'm not thinking of the "Tell me now if you don't want to see my cock" article. In this one, he waxes eloquent about what a work of art his balls are. I specifically remember him describing how, once a week, he buffs them to a high gloss with carnuba wax.

Some of these, I know, are available in the books, but I wish they were still in the archives as well. Any others?

lenin
10-11-2001, 08:36 PM
The one about My Cock is in the editorial section.

The Taco Bell and NASCAR one are available in "Dispatches from the Tenth Circle."

Coldfire
10-11-2001, 08:37 PM
Well, is this (http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/text/nascar.html) your article?

Someone must have copied it, I suppose.

Arden Ranger
10-11-2001, 08:56 PM
There was one about the SCA conquering Russia during an event weekend that I thought was aboslutely hysterical.

Eternal
10-11-2001, 11:27 PM
One I saw in a Onion book and couldn't find on the site is the Amish give up story, I loved the byline: (?) "'This is bullshit,' say Elders."

Sublight
10-11-2001, 11:35 PM
One I've unsuccessfully searched for went something like "Angels in Heaven already sick of Cardinal O'Conner telling them how they do it in New York," because it so accurately summed up the New Yorker I had to live with in college.

Chupacabra
10-12-2001, 12:30 AM
I think they remove certain articles from the website archives specifically so you have to buy the books to see your favorite stories. Fine by me. I love those books. I am always happy to reread my favorite "Christ Returns to the NBA". The best part is the photo that accompanies it, showing Christ doing his trademarked "ascencion dunk".

Guinastasia
10-12-2001, 09:01 PM
There's an editorial called, "I Hope My Baby Don't Come Out All Fucked Up and Shit"...hysterical. There was a follow up-"My Baby Don't Need No Medicine"-but it was GONE!

Another article-Xmas Ruined by Presence of Religious Relative. Gone.

:(

Yondan
10-13-2001, 12:52 AM
Does anyone know where I can find "Jesus I hate my filthy fucking hippie owner." by Thunder the Ferret?

Demise
10-13-2001, 01:31 AM
"It's Not a Crack House, It's a Crack Home.

Best article ever.

Stoid
10-13-2001, 03:12 AM
My all-time gasping for air I was laughiung so hard I nearly vomited story was "Mother Theresa Sent To Hell In Wacky Afterlife Mixup"

BTW:

Taco Bells' 5 Ingredients Combined In a Totally New Way

LOUISVILLE, KY--With great fanfare
Monday, Taco Bell unveiled the Grandito,
an exciting new permutation of refried
beans, ground beef, cheddar cheese, lettuce,
and a corn tortilla. "You've never tasted
Taco Bell's five ingredients combined quite
like this,"

Plus more, but ya know... (I have a ton of Onion articles saved as emails from when i sent them to friends. If you want the rest of this, just email me. )

stoid

Stoid
10-13-2001, 03:15 AM
Yondan, I have that one.

Mr. Cynical
10-13-2001, 03:27 AM
The one that hooked me forever:

"Grisly, Undead Spectre of Death Proclaims Breakfast Cereal 'Delicious, Nutricious!'"

It of course, featured Count Chocula.

SPOOFE
10-13-2001, 05:33 AM
The coolest headline I ever saw (I searched the Onion's archive, but I couldn't find it online) was "Mr. T to pity fool".

Qadgop the Mercotan
10-13-2001, 08:25 AM
I hope to someday collect the entire Jean Teasdale series of columns. I was disappointed that the last book had only one of her columns.