# Weekly World News **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071 "2001-08-31T03:57:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Harvey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@Max\_Harvey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Harvey)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071/21 "2001-09-01T03:54:16Z")
\ I hate when people can’t shut up about the stupid tabloid headlines. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071/22 "2001-09-01T06:49:51Z")
I’m sorry to report that the denizens of the message boards at the WWN are… exactly what one would expect. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071/23 "2001-09-01T06:55:08Z")
You guys forgot to mention two of the most important reasons for the WWN’s popularity: Dear Dotti and Ed Anger. I buy the paper for those two columns alone. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071/24 "2001-09-01T14:08:12Z")
Honest. The WWN briefly had a weekly series on the USA network. Stories I recall-man invents marshmallow trees, beauty queen injured by exploding fruit, interview with the world’s most boring man, people who keep dead loved ones in glass cofffins-and use them as coffee tables, and of coures stories on the bat boy-complete with video. ``` Sadly I don't have any episodes on tape, I was pig-biting mad when they cancelled that series. Ed Anger's columns were collected into a book Let's Pave Over The Rain Forest And Give The Teachers Stun Guns! I have a theory that bringing this book in contact with one of Unca Cecil's will have the same effect as combining matter and antimatter. ``` ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071/25 "2001-09-01T16:25:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sofa King \* > \*\*If I remember rightly, the Enquirer actually started out in the 1950s as a pulp crime-reporting magazine which catered to the blood-and-graphic violence crowd. They specialized in gruesome photographs, especially gangland killings. > > I’ve been a regular reader of the WWN since the mid-1980s, if that helps. > > I got the bright idea that it might be a good idea to ask the WWN itself about its printing history. Feel free to check their message board for my question and any answers it generates. \*\* **How come everything’s been deleted?** ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071/26 "2001-09-01T23:00:09Z")
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the WWN and the NE share offices and that because of the laughter eminating from the WWN offices the folks at NE had to have theirs sound proofed. One wonders if the WWN is a “drug-free” workplace or a “free-drugs” workplace. I’m betting on the latter (and if true, I’ll probably be sending 'em a resume ;)). ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071/27 "2001-09-01T23:18:23Z")
_Asked **postcards** :_ > [@](#): > > How come everything’s been deleted? Well, you see, my question unfortunately led those adolescents to post mundane, pointless replies. A quick perusal of the board revealed that those replies were likely to be the most authoritative I was going to get. So, after briefly posting a response that said something like “Carnivore is recording your thoughts through the aura in your fingers as you type, so I already have everything I need to know,” I deleted both the question and the retort. No need to lead those folks here, don’t you know. Some folks can be washed of ignorance, others bathe in it. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071/28 "2001-09-02T01:18:58Z")
I think the time has come to move this to MPSIMS bibliophage moderator, GQ ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071/29 "2001-09-08T00:12:40Z")
WWN is > [@](#): > > God of the tabloids! Nuff said. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news/79071.md?page=1)