The Onion online gives me tremendous joy every issue- I think I want to subscribe. I have a few questions though:
Do you like/love it?
Is there more in the print version then on the 'net?
Is it pretty much weekly?
Any feedback/opinions are appreciated!
Zette
I did subscribe at one point, but IIRC, the only additional thing that it had that the online version did not was ads for local (well, local for around where the Onion is published – Minnesota, maybe?) pizza places and such. I got them weekly, but about a week after I’d already read them online. YMMV.
It used to be based out of Madison Wisconsin, but I believe those rat bastards have since moved to New York. Still an office in Madison, though, and still free drop-offs. I pick up a copy whenever I’m in Mad-town.
I don’t have a paper copy with me now, but I believe that there’s a few local-interest columns, classifieds (some of which are a hoot), umm, some more comics, ads & things. There’s not a whole lot more articles of substanace in the paper copy, but it’s still a total trip. If you can spare the cash for a subscription, I say go for it. I’m sure that the fine men and women of the Onion will muchly appreciate your support.
I gave some thought to it, and even went to the point of looking for it on the website… to find that they are charging $200 a year for it to be sent to me. That’s US dollars, which means I’d be paying nearly Au$400 for the same thing.
I can go to my local Borders Books and pick it up for $6.50 an issue (which at an issue a week works out to be Au$338), but that’s still way too much for me to justify.
Ahhh, tyranny of distance, how we love ye.
Weekly Onion reader here. Helps living in their (former) hometown. The on-line version has most of what is in the paper. All you are missing is some local ads, personals, etc. Now, that’s not to say you’re getting all the funny stuff on line. A while back, they had a half page ad for a local pizza place that was offering free mushrooms with any large pizza (?). The big banner headline?
“Free F–kin 'Shrooms!”
And no, they didn’t edit it.
Here, on the University of Colorado @ Boulder campus, hardcopies of the Onion are all over the University Memorial Center and in nifty dispensors. It’s a good thing.
I had a subscription for a year and I loved getting it every week. Only problem was that it came a considerable amount of time after the webpage was updated, so I had to hold off until I received it.
Overall, I liked getting it at home a lot, especially because now I have a whole year of old issues that I can flip through any time I want! Plus, I second that notion about the ads, some of those are hilarious! My favorite is also for a pizza place -
“SUPPORTING CORPORATE BULLS–T PIZZA IS BULLS–T!”
I never really considered there to be a huge difference between mainstream and “indie” pizza.
Colin