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Title: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: yesno on April 28, 2008, 08:53:11 PM

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_use_big_word

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/commas_turning_up

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/bro_youre_a_god_among_bros

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/idiom_shortage_leaves_nation_all

Maybe I just like the turn towards more linguistic humor.

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: Denim Gremlin on April 28, 2008, 08:56:37 PM

my favorite in a real long time

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/goalie_clearly_living_in_net

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: KickTheBobo on April 28, 2008, 09:05:23 PM

I read 'God Among Bros' again the other night, and shed laughter tears.

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: Gregory on April 28, 2008, 09:11:00 PM

Yeah, the Onion has been really strong recently.

My favorite articles are ones like this, http://www.theonion.com/content/news/time_traveler_everyone_in_the (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/time_traveler_everyone_in_the),
where there's a nice surprise waiting for you if you read the whole thing.

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: jed on April 28, 2008, 10:38:37 PM

My favorite headline from a long time ago.  I lol'd when I saw it.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43009
 (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43009)

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: dania on April 28, 2008, 11:38:36 PM

My favorite one ever:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/conceptual_terrorists_encase_sears (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/conceptual_terrorists_encase_sears)

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on April 29, 2008, 11:32:17 AM

My recent favorite:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bp_opens_multi_floor_1_000

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: gravy boat on April 29, 2008, 12:36:10 PM

I think this will always be my favorite. Came out a week or two after Mother Teresa died. 

Headline:  Mother Teresa Sent To Hell In Wacky Afterlife Mix-Up

Some of the story details:
Her arthritic limbs snapping like twigs as her frail, 4'11" frame was rent asunder by the claws of grotesque, multi-limbed demons, Mother Teresa reportedly screamed in indescribable agony as the superheated gases of Hell's unholy furnace blackened and charred her hair and face. According to a New York Times report, her skull has already been used as a drinking goblet by Satan, the Great Deceiver himself, and the esteemed nun's rape at the hands of insatiable, barbed-penis-wielding hellhounds in the near-future is considered "highly likely."

Brave, brave humor.

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on April 29, 2008, 02:56:12 PM

Ick.

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: Martin on April 29, 2008, 03:18:51 PM

Asshole Admits To Being Asshole In Supreme Asshole Move (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30572)

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: todd on April 29, 2008, 04:52:21 PM

Guy In Philosophy Class Needs To Shut The Fuck Up

HANOVER, NH—According to students enrolled in professor Michael Rosenthal's Philosophy 101 course at Dartmouth College, that guy, Darrin Floen, the one who sits at the back of the class and acts like he's Aristotle, seriously needs to shut the fuck up. (http://"http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40984")

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: Gregory on April 29, 2008, 05:19:02 PM

I can't find it on the site, but my favorite Onion headline ever is something like "Extreme Terrorist Nosegrabs Into Capitol Building."


also,

Hola amigos. I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya,
(http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/character4.article.jpg)


Jim Anchower always makes me laugh.

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: Denim Gremlin on April 29, 2008, 06:48:40 PM

Quote from: todd on April 29, 2008, 04:52:21 PM

Guy In Philosophy Class Needs To Shut The Fuck Up

HANOVER, NH—According to students enrolled in professor Michael Rosenthal's Philosophy 101 course at Dartmouth College, that guy, Darrin Floen, the one who sits at the back of the class and acts like he's Aristotle, seriously needs to shut the fuck up. (http://"http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40984")

haha, I had this hanging on my fridge for like a year.

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on April 29, 2008, 08:49:43 PM

Jim Anchower is the best.  And Jackie Harvey is awesome.  Jean Teasdale is unbelievably tragic but I laff at that too.

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: todd on April 29, 2008, 08:53:48 PM

I work for The Onion, and I find it very, very funny that all the subscription magazines in the lobby are addressed to "Jim Anchower."

Title: Re: Has The Onion just been getting funnier and funnier, or what?
Post by: buffcoat on April 29, 2008, 10:40:10 PM

My favorite: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29585

Loved Ones Recall Local Man's Cowardly Battle With Cancer