MetaFilter posts tagged with TheOnion

KFC Double Down

mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:22:41 -0800

"God clearly did not mean for humans to eat chicken, bacon, and low-quality, gelatinous cheese at the same time." Nathan Rabin tackles KFC's Double Down combo.

Mercy and the Minotaur.

geos — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:22:44 -0800

"The subjects vary... but there is an ideological approach in America that is distinguished by one common characteristic: words and deeds utterly lacking in the quality of mercy," by Charles Stross. Or, in other words, is using a minotaur to gore detainees a form of torture?

It Fish Time!

vivelame — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:07:19 -0800

In rather unsettling news, it appears that a chinese corporation bought one of America's most reliable news sources. For now, the editorial line doesn't seem to have changed, but will it last?

This week, Guantánamo!!! It was an incredible experience.

geos — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:56:01 -0800

Miss Universe goes to Guantánamo Bay!

Gap Unveils New 'For Kids By Kids' Clothing Line

445supermag — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:17:28 -0800

When life imitates Simpsons (i.e. skittlebrau), it's generally funny. With the Onion, not so much.

"If the news goes down too easily, it can't be good for you."

amyms — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:58:01 -0800

Amusing Ourselves to Depth: Is The Onion our most intelligent newspaper?: "While other newspapers desperately add gardening sections, ask readers to share their favorite bratwurst recipes, or throw their staffers to ravenous packs of bloggers for online question-and-answer sessions, The Onion has focused on reporting the news. The fake news, sure, but still the news. It doesn’t ask readers to post their comments at the end of stories, allow them to rate stories on a scale of one to five, or encourage citizen-satire. It makes no effort to convince readers that it really does understand their needs and exists only to serve them. The Onion’s journalists concentrate on writing stories and then getting them out there in a variety of formats, and this relatively old-fashioned approach to newspapering has been tremendously successful." The article is based on the premises of the late media critic Neil Postman, especially from his book "Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age Of Show Business."

The Skull Fucking Bill of 2007

dhammond — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:19:08 -0800

U.S. Representative Benjamin Sinclair (R-Ohio) announces the Ocular Penetration Restriction Act of 2007 [NSFW].

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence

Afroblanco — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:50:06 -0800

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence. Founding Fathers, Patriots, Mr. T. Honored.

Canadian PM has hunger for human flesh.

patr1ck — Wed, 03 May 2006 12:22:28 -0800

Canadian PM Stephen Harper eats babies. Or at least that's what many Toronto commuters read on their commutes Thursday, Friday, and Monday (they decided to leave the news up over the weekend). Another case for real news becoming more like The Onion?

What does a dollar buy these days?

anjamu — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:40:38 -0800

"If ever a company needed a marketing department, it's New Choice, whose Original Flavor Round Crackers take the cake for stating the obvious. Points should be awarded for attempts to woo health-conscious consumers with facts about added DHA ("prevents heart attack, enhances eye sight"), but there's no two ways to look at Round Crackers: It's a badly executed Ritz rip-off." So sayeth the wits at the Onion A.V. Club, who scour the nation's dollar stores for food products to evaluate in their sporadic feature "Dining for a Dollar." Round crackers too boring? You might prefer Freakin' Nuts (tagline: Is it a chip? Is it a nut? Yes!), Thick Mints, or maybe just a handful of Balls. Their annual Cheap Toy Roundup is just as good; last year's featured products such as Preeminent Car ($1), Stretchy Body Bits ($1.19), and a DVD titled Clothes That Went to a Party ($2). Perhaps the all-time best, though, is the Mini Wooden Furniture: Table: a "plain, unadorned wooden table." ($1)

Trolling for satire

Adamchik — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:08:32 -0800

I am stuck on The Borowitz Report and The Onion when it comes to favorite regularly updated satire on the Internet. I also enjoy the Slate cartoons, the JibJab animated cartoons, and Mark Fiore's flash. There is also the Specious Report, and the very meta SatireSearch. I am sure that I am still missing some good satire. MeFi'ers, where do you go for your satire?

White House v. The Onion

anathema — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:33:24 -0800

White House orders The Onion to stop using Presidential Seal. Via The Trademark Blog. see also 18 USC §713

Time to Take Out the Trash

chinese_fashion — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:57:38 -0800

Draft legislation was published today that proposes that fifteen parcels in the National Park System be sold off for "purposes of commercial and residential development." Many of the parcels are in Alaska, but one is Theodore Roosevelt Island park, developed to honor one of our country's most recognizable environmentalists. It seems the Onion gives us the news from the future once again...Way to go, DCist for breaking the story!

Making New Fake News

Robot Johnny — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:46:17 -0800

How the Onion Got a Facelift , and in the process offered their full news archives from 1996 to the present available online for free. The Onion A.V. Club also finds a new home.

This Is Not Your Paternal Unit's Onion

hal9k — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:56:30 -0800

Final Installment of Frogger Poised to Sweep Oscars All the regular cast of characters ~~return~~ remain in this 2056 A.D. edition of Americorp.biz's Finest News Source. If you haven't visited lately, you can easily catch up on the last 51 years.

Life as parody

sic — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 06:14:14 -0800

The end of peace and prosperity. So, remember the Onion's parody of Bush that was published on January 18, 2001, "Bush: Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over"? Ha Ha, very funny. Three years later they've published an updated article complete with links. Oh baby, not so funny anymore... via Daily Kos

Information wants to be free!

josh — Wed, 19 May 2004 07:57:17 -0800

I'm done with The Onion. I trusted The Onion and read their comedy for free for years -- but after hundreds of issues of unbelievable comedy The Onion is now a "pay site" that charges $30 a year for earlier access to each week's issue, plus awesome-sounding online news radio and special election coverage! I'm mad! Oh yeah!!!

Onion photo used as propaganda

pizzasub — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 09:11:17 -0800

This would be funny... if it weren't so very, very sad.

Why Poor People are pretty much f*cked

gregb1007 — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:30:23 -0800

Why Poor People are pretty much f*cked. No one can make reading about the growing gap between the rich and the poor as fun as the Onion; but other than describing the issue in humorous terms, the story makes it more accessible than your typical article in a newsmagazine.

The LJ Times

skallas — Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:58:43 -0800

Take an online newspaper template, add some AP photos, and populate it with random LiveJournal entires and the end result is the LJ Times. Its like the real-life Onion, except I'm not sure if I should be amused or scared. Currently the Analysis section reads: I have a zit so big on my forehead that it is throbbing. Its updated every half-hour.

Sir Mix-A-Lot is a very smart cat

GriffX — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:48:57 -0800

Sir Mix-A-Lot is a very smart cat. An Onion link, I suppose - but their AV Club interviews are missed more often than they should be. In this one, Sir Mix-A-Lot shows that he is a very thoughtful man, who has been handling the lot of a 'one-hit-wonder' very well, thank you.

Not the onion, but may cause tears

soyjoy — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:27:57 -0800

The Onion keeps getting funnier In this week's edition, Antonin Scalia bans the media from covering his acceptance of a free-speech award, and also tells Americans "Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires." Haw-haw! Get it? Oh, wait a second...

Butt kicking

patrickje — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:19:55 -0800

There's been a lot of smack-talking in here lately. The Onion AV Club runs with that concept and asks various celebrities, "Who could you take in a fight?". So who could you take in a fight?

From the eBay-fun corner

cinematique — Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:52:05 -0800

Does the eBay fun ever stop? Apparently not. Sometimes, auctions like these are even more hilarious than The Onion. Sometimes.

Nailed With Their Own Hammer

briank — Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:58:47 -0800

A Mad Parody Of The Onion Well, if this isn't Meta, I don't know what is. Certainly, we all know about The Onion (and, indeed, our consensus is that we don't post Onion links here). The fine fellows at MAD magazine have hoisted the Area Men by their own petard. I hate to say it, 'cuz I think The Onion is often quite funny, but they've got it nailed. (via Heath Row's Media Diet)