# Hey! Wait a minute! This Onion... is... RECYCLED! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 26, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960 "2002-11-26T21:00:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960/21 "2002-11-27T08:19:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kyomara \* > \*\*read: “Back when I was age 9-13 and still laughed at stupid jokes like those in MAD Magazine.” > > I don’t think MAD’s changed a bit. It’s just I who have changed. I am a bit more…ahem…_sophisticated_ now than I once was. \*\* I dunno - if you get some reprints of their early issues from the 1950’s, when they had Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder, those are hilarious still. The stuff from the 60’s (when I was reading it) is pretty good too. It started to go downhill in the 70’s; I haven’t paid much attention to it since then. BTW, my username is inspired by the Mad parody of Mandrake the Magician ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ccd318/32.png) [@Fugazi79](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi79)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960/22 "2002-11-27T09:28:09Z")
so where do the doyle redlin audio clips come from??? I hear em quite a bit on Howard Stern, but I can only find a small handfyll on various P2P sites?? BTW, the funniest thing the onion ever did is “How to make a crack house a crack home” Absolutly brilliant!!! Check it out on Kazaa, etc, or email me, id be happy to send it out… ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960/23 "2002-11-27T10:42:54Z")
Lord Vor is referencing an article in the onion. A small corner of the page was an article that just repeated the line “The spectators were amazed by the unusual amount of blood” The surrealty of one line repeated over and over, and that the spectators were _amazed_ at the _unusual_ amount of blood. Not funny ha-ha, but surreally funny. ---
**Author:** ![IcicleFuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ba8739/32.png) [@IcicleFuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IcicleFuzz)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960/24 "2002-11-27T12:20:40Z")
Is it just me, or does the Onion recycle its easter edition? I could have sworn I’ve seen the crucified easter bunnies and stuff more than once. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960/25 "2002-11-27T15:24:22Z")
That parody was hysterical! I don’t read _Mad Magazine_, so I don’t know if they have room to talk, but this parody was a well deserved kick in _The Onion_’s ass. > [@](#): > > 1. Typical advice feature attributed to an unlikely columnist who disregards the questions entirely and instead replies to each letter expounding on his, her, or its area of expertise, literary style, or obsession. > [@](#): > > Why Running An Editorial Attributed To Someone You Wouldn’t Expect To Be Writing An Editorial On A Trivial Subject That Normally Doesn’t Warrant An Editorial Is So Damn Funny Week After Week by Nelson Mandela It is about freaking time somebody took the piss out of _The Onion_ like this. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960/26 "2002-11-27T15:56:51Z")
I’m glad somebody got it, Twist. I actually think they use that block of text for mock-ups in the paper edition…and then sometimes (usually about once/year or so) the stories don’t fill up all the spaces, and they just leave it in as a surreally-funny space filler. But a heavily recycled one, which is why the thread reminded me of it. And no parody of the Onion was better than when the Onion wrote about the Turnip. -lv ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960/27 "2002-11-27T16:22:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IcicleFuzz \* > \*\*Is it just me, or does the Onion recycle its easter edition? I could have sworn I’ve seen the crucified easter bunnies and stuff more than once. \*\* Yeah, like three times, at least. Valentine’s day too. The recycling used to be extremely obvious back when they used to archive the entire issue, but now they only archive certain articles, so it’s harder to prove. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960/28 "2002-11-28T19:34:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*Lord Vor is referencing an article in the onion. A small corner of the page was an article that just repeated the line “The spectators were amazed by the unusual amount of blood” > > The surrealty of one line repeated over and over, and that the spectators were _amazed_ at the _unusual_ amount of blood. > > Not funny ha-ha, but surreally funny. \*\* Whenever the print version of _The Onion_ has space to fill, this is the text of the article. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wait-a-minute-this-onion-is-recycled/138960.md?page=1)