Sometimes The Onion just nails it

[Maserschmidt]

@Bosstone

That’s what the Onion does. The joke is the headline and the actual story beats you over the head with it.

THIS.

[Mahaloth]

@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”?

[AppallingGael]

Very heavy-handed. I wouldn’t even call it satire.

[Equipoise]

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.

[sjc]

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.

[AppallingGael]

@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.

[Hypno-Toad]

It’s amazing how the Onion collected the emails and thanksgiving conversations of my relatives and bundled them into an article.

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@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.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@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:;)

[Beware_of_Doug]

The truthiest Onion piece ever, to my reckoning, concerned its 1997 Man of the Year: The Man.

@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.

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

By “chicken”, I take it you mean “buzzard”.:dubious:;)

The usual feckless threats.

[commasense]

@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.