"Stupid Barbados. You must be stopped!"

June 14, 2002 1:47 PM

"Stupid Barbados. You must be stopped!" It's official: Greenpeace now opposes everything.
posted by nobody_knose (17 comments total)

Tubcat will destroy Greenpeace and their puny minions...
posted by almostcool at 1:50 PM on June 14, 2002

The article itself is pretty average onionwannabe schick...
But the ending?
Pure absurdist genius.
posted by Newbornstranger at 1:53 PM on June 14, 2002

When I first read the headline, I thought it was true.
posted by mikegre at 1:58 PM on June 14, 2002

"What about Pink?"

"Hate the color, hate the singer."

This made me laugh out loud. But, yeah. Pretty low level stuff. The ending is surreal.
posted by ColdChef at 2:06 PM on June 14, 2002

I was going to write about how satirewire isn't funny, but I went back and read the ending. Now I just want to talk about how the satirewire staff is apparently on powerful drugs.

But still not funny.
posted by jragon at 2:35 PM on June 14, 2002

Oh, I dunno...the CEOnistas was pretty funny. :)
posted by dejah420 at 2:55 PM on June 14, 2002

Satire doesn't equal senseless unfunny drivel. It's supposed to amuse and make a point. This does neither.
posted by muckster at 3:03 PM on June 14, 2002

cool fact #354 : mat groening, creator of the simpsons, was either a member or affiliated with the green peace before becoming a rock star animator.

wish i could rememebr which tho
posted by Satapher at 3:13 PM on June 14, 2002

Each to their own. To my eyes the Greenpeace stuff was a setup for the irreverance at the end and that made me laugh a few of times.
posted by vbfg at 3:16 PM on June 14, 2002

deja420: The CEOnistas is indeed very funny.

The Greenpeace stuff is just alright. If it were on print, I would have said its not worth wasting paper on.
posted by justlooking at 3:43 PM on June 14, 2002

There's nothing worse than a bunch of J-school dropout halfwits who think they're clever and funny but aren't. There ain't a university on the planet that isn't overrun with too damn many of them.

At least The Onion makes me chuckle about a third of the time.
posted by mark13 at 3:57 PM on June 14, 2002

There's nothing worse than a bunch of J-school dropout halfwits who think they're clever and funny but aren't.

Except, perhaps, people who whine about them on the Internet.
posted by Danelope at 4:44 PM on June 14, 2002

Man, what grumps. Don't worry, SatireWire, I still love you.
posted by Yogurt at 4:49 PM on June 14, 2002

I don't know if I find The Daily Probe funny or not Co-Worker Says "Great!" More Than 30 Times a Day
Ugh, another Onion rip-off? Well, for all my eye-rolling and bellyaching, yellow journalism makes the world a better place!
posted by Quixoticlife at 5:27 PM on June 14, 2002

Greenpeace has lost it, in my eyes. They've turned fanatical, and act before they think (that is, make research). That is very unfortunate since they have been doing a good job, aerlier.
posted by cx at 6:36 PM on June 14, 2002

The Onion is a lame Onion wannabe these days.
posted by delmoi at 12:21 AM on June 15, 2002

Satirewire is terrific. It falls flat sometimes, but when it's up, it's up. Observe these three links: Axis of Just as Evil, Rats and the Pentagon, and Global March Madness.

Unlike the onion, satirewire also knows when to draw the line and not become tasteless. Observe this Pearlesque article that ran in the onion this week.
posted by Happydaz at 2:38 AM on June 15, 2002