I got this in Email today:
Oh. My. God. If someone actually believes that, they deserve to be struck dead.
As soon as I saw
My brain goes ping! The Onion!
Go read the article. Fuckin’ idiots.
–Tim
Holy flurking motherfucking mungshot boner with a layer of crusty cunt mildew…
Some dipshit actually used the Onion as proof for their cause?!?!?
It is official. People are stupid.
I used to play Dungeons and Dragons and didn’t hide what I was doing with my Friday nights with anyone much to the “delight” of my Christian friends.
They would usually start by saying:
“People who play that have gone and killed their families you know.”
I couldn’t tell them to fuck off but how stupid can people be, really?
We had a rule that if you played with us and then went and murdered your family you would be out of the game. We didn’t have any problems at all.
Now I am worried, everyone around here is reading about the little spawn of Satan (Harry Potter). I better keep the anilmals and virgins locked up so that they don’t end up being used in some sacrificial ritual…
He fell for something in the ONION?!?!?
What the FUCK?!?!? - That guy can VOTE, scary thought.
It scares me that someone relied on The Onion as a legitimate news source…has anyone e-mailed them yet? They might get a kick out of it.
Could that email be a spoof, too? I certainly hope so. I guess the scary part is that even if the email is a joke, that some people will take it seriously.
Here’s the original Onion link for those who don’t want to wade through the 3 pages of About.com
http://www.theonion.com/onion3625/harry_potter.html
Their masthead does say “America’s Finest News Source”, and there are people out there who really don’t “get” satire, who might stumble onto the website and just sincerely not realize that it was meant as a joke. Some people would think nothing of headlines like “Republicans’ ‘Diversity Through Imported Africans’ Plan Criticized” (they’re going to import 10 million “strong-backed West Africans”), or “Visiting Gore calls Pennsylvania a ‘hellhole’”, not to mention the article reporting the appearance before Congress of a coalition of video game characters, protesting the presence of spinning blades in nearly all video games.
FWIW, I thought the e-mail looked sincere. Scary thought, I know, but there are people like that out there.
::Puts down anti-randomly-placed swinging blades petition::
I knew it was a joke all along…
Does anyone know a good method of cleaning Mountain Dew out from between the keys on my keyboard?
If not, then Feynn, you owe me. I rarely spew, and your one-liner did it. It’s your fault.
No cites here, but this is not the first time that somebody has been dense enough to cite the Onion seriously; I know that a British paper did it at sometime, although I do not know what about.