I had never been to The Onion before. I’ve seen it mentioned here a million times, but just never bothered to check it out. Holy shit, the thing is funny. It definatly is going to be a regular stop for me now.
quite possible the best possible tribute America could come up with at the moment.
Aside fron the classic Onion parts ( “Horrific Attack on Pentagon: Page 14” ) the Jerry Bruckheimer Movie article and "God angrily Clarifies “No Killing Rule”, are some of the best articles I’ve read that deal with the events.
Onion, you are a class apart.
RickJay, the joke in the “Talking to your kids” part is that the description that they give is far too complex and detailed for a child to comprehend.
Not that any of us can really comprehend…
Anyway, a fine issue if the Onion. Good to have them back.
I liked the cake story. The Onion can be brutal and searingly cruel - actually I was a bit disappointed about the general tameness of this issue - but it also can be simply and truthfully sad.
Brilliant. Abso-freakin’-lutly brilliant.
I loved this part, it fits my opinions to a tee:
Is anyone else getting a completely blank page on
http://www.theonion.com ?
Yeah, I am too.
Now THAT is some amazingly minimalist satire.
IE wouldn’t let me see anything, but Netscape did. Weird.
This is my favorite line from the whole article.
QUOTE]*Originally posted by ShibbOleth *
**I read the link that says the Onion is going to be hands off for at least this week. From that perspective, I think the most likely headline is going to be something like this:
Terrorists Shocked To Find Themselves In Hell
“This wasn’t in the brochure,” complained Khalid al Midhar. Al Midhar, a well known terrorist and houri fan claims that bin Laden told him that Heaven would be his reward. “I certainly wasn’t expecting Eternal damnation”, said another terrorist who refused to give his name, “perhaps we should have read the Qur’an a bit more closely.” Bin Laden could not be reached for comment. **[/QUOTE
here is the
link
I thought it had just the right touch. Of the parts that haven’t yet been mentioned, I especially liked the bit down near the bottom of the front page where Bush Sr. apologizes to Dubya for funding bin Laden back in the 1980s (‘We called them ‘freedom fighters’ back then - I guess you really had to be there.’*)
*[sub]Paraphrase; can’t get to the page right now. You think it’s getting a lot of hits today? ;)[/sub]
I always have that problem on Wednesdays. I’d guess that they’ve lately gotten to be so popular, that their servers can’t keep up with the requests, especially on days that they are released (Wednesdays).
The tone of this one is definitely more subdued. I can’t blame them, and think it’s definitely in good taste. Though being in bad-taste has never stopped them before.
Umm…the whole piece was a joke…because it was far too complex for children to understand. I was cracking up.
It isn’t a Netscape vs. IE. It’s traffic. I couldn’t get it this AM, just had it pulled up, the LAN ad wanted me to install a patch, I had to reboot, and now I can’t finish reading it…
I’m loving what I’ve managed to see of it so far but like some of you, I’m having a lot of trouble getting the pages to load. Still can’t get to the God, cake, or Talk to Your Kids articles. Glad to see someone else say it, though, because we’re also having network problems here at the office-- at least it’s not just me!
Consequently I can’t get the page up right now to get an exact quote, but the Bruckheimer article got me. Paraphrasing, but I like the parts about how we’re all waiting for the credits to roll, and they won’t, and the action movie buffs saying how awful these things are in real life.
I also got a blank page with IE, but was able to pull it up with Netscape. So far I like it, and I haven’t even clicked any links yet.
“Jerry Falwell: Is That Guy A Dick Or What?”
BWAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!
I printed off the “God” article and have it hanging on my bulletin board here in my office.
I about cried when I read the God, Bruckheimer, and cake articles. I wonder if any of my local bookstores sell The Onion in newspaper form. I want to keep this one.