# Getting whooshed by the Onion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018 "2006-07-11T13:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/61 "2006-07-13T15:31:25Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] So this joke is “not dead yet”? [/QUOTE] Yes it is, it’ll be stone dead in a moment. It’s not fooling anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/62 "2006-07-13T16:07:37Z")
[QUOTE=Monstre] Yes it is, it’ll be stone dead in a moment. It’s not fooling anyone. [/QUOTE] It’s feeling better! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/63 "2006-07-14T17:23:24Z")
[Salon has an article](http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/07/14/onion_blogger/) up now about the blogger in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/64 "2006-07-14T21:30:28Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] [Salon has an article](http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/07/14/onion_blogger/) up now about the blogger in the OP. [/QUOTE] Said article confirms, in an interview with the author, that he _just doesn’t get it_. This is my favorite bit: > [@](#): > > Satire, he said, “is an American humor. Saying something but not really meaning it and egging a person on to see if they believe it so you can say, ‘Dang, you’re dumb!’ I’m kind of used to people laughing at me.” He said his father and brother used to do this to him as well. “What I didn’t know was that there was a whole country of people doing this.” ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/65 "2006-07-14T21:52:00Z")
**Area man doesn’t know when to stop** KANSAS CITY— Local member of the Straight Dope Message Board, **Hey You!** recently posted “There was an instance in which a Chinese newspaper thought Congress was threatening to move unless they got a new Capitol,” continuing a trend that is becoming increasingly tedious with each instance. “Sometimes people post similar replies to threads at the same time,” SDMB Administrator **jdavis** commented, “but the Board has quite a few characters and this is clearly a case of people turning the simulpost phenom into a joke.” **Hey You!** reportedly saw this trend and decided to continue it, rather than contributing anything original, creative or helpful to the thread. “He typically has very little to contribute,” SDMB Moderator **Skip Magic** said. “He usually just imitates what the other intelligent or funny posters do. It’s sad really.” **Hey You!** was recently seen giggling to himself creating a list and muttering something about “Opal.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/66 "2006-07-14T22:47:37Z")
It would be more appropriate for Herr Peter to put up a _drawing_ of a dead baby, since there was no real abortion for us to “laugh at.” ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/67 "2006-07-14T22:59:31Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] Said article confirms, in an interview with the author, that he _just doesn’t get it_. This is my favorite bit: > [@](#): > > Satire, he said, “is an American humor. Saying something but not really meaning it and egging a person on to see if they believe it so you can say, ‘Dang, you’re dumb!’ I’m kind of used to people laughing at me.” He said his father and brother used to do this to him as well. “What I didn’t know was that there was a whole country of people doing this.” [/QUOTE] This made me laugh right out loud. I bet this guy STILL falls for “Hey, your shoe’s untied!” My favorite response was to his original rant. Someone posted “I’m pro life, but sweet Jesus you’re an idiot. For your next post, how about a passionate speech on the need to immediately free Prince Albert from the can?” ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/68 "2006-07-14T23:24:47Z")
My god, I had no idea that [[url=boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378924](http://url=boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378924)]my roommate [/quote] had a blog! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/69 "2006-07-14T23:25:48Z")
Erm, could a mod fix that coding for me? ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/70 "2006-07-14T23:25:59Z")
[QUOTE=Weirddave] My favorite response was to his original rant. Someone posted “I’m pro life, but sweet Jesus you’re an idiot. For your next post, how about a passionate speech on the need to immediately free Prince Albert from the can?” [/QUOTE] Ok, I don’t get it. Why is Prince Albert in a can? ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/71 "2006-07-14T23:29:29Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Ok, I don’t get it. Why is Prince Albert in a can? [/QUOTE] Are you serious, or are you yanking my lower extremities? ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/72 "2006-07-14T23:30:43Z")
[QUOTE=Weirddave] Are you serious, or are you yanking my lower extremities? [/QUOTE] Yeah, i’m serious. And also worried now, since I guess it’s something I should know? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/73 "2006-07-14T23:51:29Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Yeah, i’m serious. And also worried now, since I guess it’s something I should know? [/QUOTE] Prince Albert used to be a popular brand of pipe tobacco in the U.S. It was sold in middling-sized cans. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/74 "2006-07-14T23:52:41Z")
Then there was that time the PRChina threatened to leave Beijing if they didn’t get advance copies of the next Harry Potter book. The Washington Times believed it, and they put it on the front page. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/75 "2006-07-14T23:54:09Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Yeah, i’m serious. And also worried now, since I guess it’s something I should know? [/QUOTE] Telephone pranks. First, calling a random home: “Is your refrigerator running? It is? You’d better go catch it before it gets away!” Then, calling the local tobacconist store: “Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do? You’d better let him out!” ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/76 "2006-07-14T23:56:09Z")
[QUOTE=Talon Karrde] Does anyone else think it would be frickin awesome if on April Fool’s Day, The Onion ran serious news articles? [/QUOTE] When I read this post, my first thought was, “Um. No! That would be so boring.” But then I realized, if they chose good stories, I could spend several minutes trying to figure out what the joke was. Bravo. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/77 "2006-07-15T00:11:04Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Prince Albert used to be a popular brand of pipe tobacco in the U.S. It was sold in middling-sized cans. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Telephone pranks. First, calling a random home: “Is your refrigerator running? It is? You’d better go catch it before it gets away!” Then, calling the local tobacconist store: “Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do? You’d better let him out!” [/QUOTE] Ah, ok. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/78 "2006-07-15T03:18:02Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Yeah, i’m serious. And also worried now, since I guess it’s something I should know? [/QUOTE] My goodness, the young folk. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/79 "2006-07-15T03:36:59Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] Said article confirms, in an interview with the author, that he _just doesn’t get it_. This is my favorite bit: > [@](#): > > Satire, he said, “is an American humor. Saying something but not really meaning it and egging a person on to see if they believe it so you can say, ‘Dang, you’re dumb!’ I’m kind of used to people laughing at me.” He said his father and brother used to do this to him as well. “What I didn’t know was that there was a whole country of people doing this.” [/QUOTE] Oh. My. God. Here’s someone clinically proven to have no sense of humor. Is it just me, or would “Whooshed by the Onion” be a great band name? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018/80 "2006-07-15T03:41:22Z")
Oh, man. I tried to show this to my boyfriend and now theres a nasty dirty bloody baby on her main page… It made me sick. I’ve never seen anyone revel in bloody babies except for this particular subset of pro-lifers. Pro-choicers don’t post pics of bloody dead babies all over their websites. :tries not to throw up: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-whooshed-by-the-onion/364018.md?page=5)