There’s…no…EMOTICON for what I’m feeling!! 
I think this is the first time I have ever seen so many reruns in one issue. I passed the time by reading the archives. I’m glad I did, b/c for some reason I had never read this one before, and I wet myself reading it:
The lobster editorial was hil-freakin-larious. I might have to read it again, since you linked. I was disappointed that this week was a re-run, but as mentioned upthread, hey, free entertainment. Gift-horse. Mouth. All that.
The problem with Dave Barry is that all his articles have more cliches than a Fark photoshop thread. It’s like his columns are generated by Javascript any more.
They even re-ran the horoscopes. The Libra one from this week has been on my office door for almost a year.
Jim Anchower is funny, but the Jean Teasdale stuff is brilliant*. As a good friend of mine said, Jean Teasdale is almost Faulknerian in her subtlety. Excellent, excellent work.
Woops. Either italics or bold, really. Take yer pick.
I’ll add an addendum to what I’ve said, then. The print version has done “Best Of” issues with new things in the A/V Club since at least 1996. I can’t vouch for the website, since I usually pick up the real thing every week. If they just started carrying that over to the website, well, then I’ll just be slinking over quietly into the corner.
“The food at that resort is terrible.”
“I know. And such small portions, too.”
– Woody Allen, I think
Fanny Brice used that line in the 1920s, and I’ll bet she stole it from someone.
so because its free we aren’t allowed draw critical conclusions based on their output?
Just protest with your wallet. Oh, wait…
I love the man-on-the-street interviews in the Onion. That’s my favorite feature – the first one I go to. I couldn’t care less that this week’s are recycled. When the guy says (the topic is obesity) something like: “An ample bosom and a nice set of hips – I love that in a man” – that one had me rolling on the floor yesterday the same way it did the first time.
BTW, does anyone know why the snooty looking old black guy is always a “systems analyst”? They never change his “profession”. Maybe one time out of 10, they make him a “lawyer”.
Well, If I wanted to hurt them financially I would suggest not buying products from all the companies who advertise on their site.
However, they make money from their advertisers. In order to keep the advertisers happy, readers have to buy from them. If they want to keep the readers coming back so that the adertisers can get the highest possible audience, they have to produce quality output.
If the quality goes down, fewer people visit, and there are less potential customers for the advertisers.
I don’t feel that the Onion owes me any sort of entertainment, but I still have the right to tell them when their output stinks.
Why do people say the 9/11 issue was perfect? The headline was great. The rest, simply put, sucked. It wasn’t biting. It wasn’t edgy. It wasn’t tasteless. It wasn’t anything that the Onion usually is. NOBODY could disagree with the sentiment expressed in that issue, other than the terrorist themselves. Oooh “terrorists are going to hell”! Funny! Not at all predictable! “People are shocked” crazy! never would have seen THAT coming.
It just wasn’t funny, people.
that’s just like, your opinion…man.
While new material would be preferred, this contains one of my favorite Opinion columns ever, “Hey, Everybody, Let’s Put On An Avant-Garde Show!”
Not to forget the sidebar about the heroic pitbull travelling 1,000 miles to attack the owner.
Wouldn’t “It’s a Trap” be a good…
ouch! what was that?
Most of it wasn’t funny, but this article was absolutely beautiful. It made me cry.