# Awesome inside joke in the onion this week! I caught it!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-inside-joke-in-the-onion-this-week-i-caught-it/85061>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 2, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-inside-joke-in-the-onion-this-week-i-caught-it/85061 "2001-10-02T22:59:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-inside-joke-in-the-onion-this-week-i-caught-it/85061/1 "2001-10-02T22:59:40Z")

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Go to The Onion home page and scroll to the editorial section. There is an article called something like “I Insist You Borrow This Awful Book”.

Look at the picture of the author: **IT’S JACK CHICK!!**

I wonder how many people are gonna catch this? I just want credit for being the first from the SDMB to do so!

Oh that is so cool.

LC

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-inside-joke-in-the-onion-this-week-i-caught-it/85061/2 "2001-10-02T23:06:17Z")

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Is that really him? He looks a lot younger than I expected. An old picture maybe?

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**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-inside-joke-in-the-onion-this-week-i-caught-it/85061/3 "2001-10-02T23:10:15Z")

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To make this easier to see, I’m gonna go ahead and post the link.

This sounds like an urban legend, doesn’t it? Well it’s not. [Here’s the proof](http://www.theonion.com/onion3735/i_insist_you_borrow_this.html).

LC

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**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-inside-joke-in-the-onion-this-week-i-caught-it/85061/4 "2001-10-02T23:41:59Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Revtim \*  
> \*\*Is that really him? He looks a lot younger than I expected. An old picture maybe? \*\*

Well, he’s kind of shut in and private, I understand, and doesn’t have pictures taken or speak to many members of the public.

I know that picture was on the start page of his web site for at least as long as I’ve known he existed. It’s not there any more, but it used to be, I swear! No! Come back!

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-inside-joke-in-the-onion-this-week-i-caught-it/85061/5 "2001-10-03T01:11:09Z")

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Yeah, a picture like that was on his website, but I don’t think it was him…that was just some “Happy Christian Tract Liking Guy”. As I said in Cafe Society, Chick won’t let his picture be taken