# Sometimes The Onion just nails it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582 "2009-11-14T20:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/21 "2009-11-14T23:52:11Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > That’s what the Onion does. The joke is the headline and the actual story beats you over the head with it. THIS. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/22 "2009-11-15T00:37:29Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’d tell you which line is the funniest, but I’d probably get in trouble around these parts. > [@BigT](#): > > Okay, so maybe I was wrong. That was the part that actually made me laugh, as it was actually unexpected. OK, then, so what do you think of “these parts”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/23 "2009-11-15T05:49:45Z")
Very heavy-handed. I wouldn’t even call it satire. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/24 "2009-11-15T22:35:44Z")
Heavy-handed? How should such ignorance and stupidity be called out? With a gentle PC touch? There are ignoramuses who spout such shit every day, in real life, at teabagging parties and Facebook and elsewhere. And it’s not a joke to them! I thought it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/25 "2009-11-17T03:26:14Z")
I was amused, and particularly liked the part about the daughter. I think it makes a good point, which is that people do tend to use the constitution for all sorts of things. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/26 "2009-11-17T22:20:52Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Heavy-handed? How should such ignorance and stupidity be called out? With a gentle PC touch? Depends on the venue. On the Onion, I would expect a little wit and subtlety, and I saw none here. But if it worked for you, that’s nice. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/27 "2009-11-17T22:29:17Z")
It’s amazing how the Onion collected the emails and thanksgiving conversations of my relatives and bundled them into an article. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/28 "2009-11-17T22:41:05Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > If I tried to show that to anybody in Tennessee, I’d be torn to pieces. I am in Tennessee, and I would not tear you to pieces for showing me that. Admittedly I might tear you to pieces for OTHER reasons, but really it would depend on your opinion of my chicken casserole. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/29 "2009-11-17T22:49:07Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I am in Tennessee, and I would not tear you to pieces for showing me that. > > Admittedly I might tear you to pieces for OTHER reasons, but really it would depend on your opinion of my chicken casserole. By “chicken”, I take it you mean “buzzard”.:dubious:;)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/30 "2009-11-17T22:49:20Z")
The truthiest _Onion_ piece ever, to my reckoning, concerned its 1997 Man of the Year: [The Man](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29703). > [@The Onion](#): > > Woe betide any man who gets in The Man’s way. Each and every man on this Earth, however great or small he may be, must suck up to The Man, lest he in his foolishness be in turn screwed over by The Man. > > Who among us can honestly say they have never backed down in the face of the staggering magnitude and power of The Man? Many have devoted their entire lives to resisting The Man, but, in the end, their efforts have brought them failure, degradation, and, more often than not, utter destruction at The Man’s mighty hand. > > The few who survive in this cruel and unfair world know and respect the unbending will of The Man, and, in shameless displays of sycophancy and toadyism, they prostrate themselves before The Man to win a tiny fraction of The Man’s favor. Those who harbor even the slightest ambition to succeed, to earn some measure of status and influence in this, The Man’s world, understand well its unwritten yet all-encompassing rule: You Can’t Mess With The Man. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/31 "2009-11-17T22:58:36Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > By “chicken”, I take it you mean “buzzard”.:dubious:;)😃 The usual feckless threats. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/32 "2009-11-18T04:46:59Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Bang on, though I wasn’t aware the U.S. had a “charter”. I knew it. But that’s obviously because I’m a charter member and you are not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582.md?page=1)