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wickerwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:42 AM
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What's your second favorite Onion headline?
The first one being, obviously:
"Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Over" after Bush's selection.

Mine is:
"America Asks for One Week Break to Get It's Shit Together"
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_testify_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 08:22 AM
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1. Drugs win Drug War.
And the opinion piece titled, "You're going to LOVE my balls!"
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ChickMagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 08:40 AM
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2. This is my first one
Holy Fucking Shit! I think that's the first time I laughed after 9/11.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 08:58 AM
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5. Same here
And as someone who watched the smoke rise from the Pentagon that day from the roof of my office building, I can tell you that phrase was heard frequently on 9/11.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 08:56 AM
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3. Holy Fucking Shit! Man Walks On Fucking Moon!
Which is, of course, what the real headlines should have read July 21, 1969.
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mduffy31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 10:00 AM
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8. Damn you beat me too it
Another one is from one of the columns entitled: Where the Fuck is Dian with my Fair Trade Coffee? It goes and makes fun of libs, which I loved because it was so true of a lot of libs.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 08:57 AM
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4. Clinton to introduce vowels to Bosnia!
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 09:02 AM
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6. "Special Olympics T-Ball Tee Throws Perfect Game"
:rofl:
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 05:18 PM
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39. As long as crude humor is acceptable, my favorite was
the one about the kids in Africa enjoying their "World Champion Seattle Seahawks" t-shirts after this last Super Bowl, but I wouldn't have posted it unless you had posted yours. Both are cruel humor, but I think both are very funny.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 09:05 AM
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7. "God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule
Also from the brilliant Sept. 11 issue.

"Look, I don't know, maybe I haven't made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again," said the Lord, His divine face betraying visible emotion during a press conference near the site of the fallen Twin Towers. "Somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to kill their neighbor. Well, I don't. And to be honest, I'm really getting sick and tired of it. Get it straight. Not only do I not want anybody to kill anyone, but I specifically commanded you not to, in really simple terms that anybody ought to be able to understand."
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 10:52 AM
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9. OH THANK YOU!
That one is my #1.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 11:58 AM
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13. You're welcome!
I never forgot that one--I remember laughing and crying at the same time while I was reading it.

Tough to find, though--I love the Onion but their search is for shit--I tried to find it on their site using the keywords "God" and "kill" and nothing came up. Had to use Google. But I'm glad it finally came up.
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 10:56 AM
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10. "Somebody Should do something about all the Problems"
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 11:00 AM
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11. "Gaywads, Dorkwads Sign Historic 'Wad Accord'"
:rofl:
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 11:02 AM
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12. ...
"Allen Funt Let President Kennedy In On Hilarious 'Cuban Missile Crisis' Prank"
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 12:01 PM
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14. National Funk Congress Deadlocked On Get Up/Get Down Issue
My favorite Onion story EVER:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29205
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 12:50 PM
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20. I've been looking for this damn story for a month now. THANKS!!!
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:47 PM
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35. You're welcome!
But don't thank me, thank google. :7
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:44 PM
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37. This is absolutely brilliant.
I am dying over here.

<i>"The time has come to face facts: To move forward, we've got to get on up, and stay on the scene, like a sex machine," said Brick House Majority Leader James Brown (G-GA), one of getting on up's most vocal supporters. "Say it loud: Only when we have gotten up offa that thing will we, as a nation, finally get back on the good foot."</i> :rofl:
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RedStateShame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 12:13 PM
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15. All Y'All Urged to Go Fuck Yo'Selves
That is followed by "Merle Haggard Haggard."
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 12:36 PM
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16. Don't Run Away, I'm Not the Flesh Eating Kind of Zombie
By Solomon Grocks, Non-Flesh-Eating Zombie

Excerpt:
Please, please come back. I just want to, I don't know, have tea or something. I couldn't actually drink it, because it'd run down the sides of my mandible as soon as I poured it into my mouth, but it'd be so nice just to clumsily paw at the cup with my skeletal hands. We could maybe play basketball, as long as you didn't pass me the ball too fast, causing my ribcage to collapse into dust and spilling my rotting entrails onto the ground in front of me.

Or we could just sit somewhere and talk. We don't even have to sit all that close to each other, okay? If it'd make you more comfortable, I could sit a good distance away and just glare at you with my piercing, lidless eyes.

How can I go on, walking the moonlit countryside every night, endlessly searching for that which I can never have? How can I accept this piteous, eternal fate when no one, no matter how nice I act, will be my friend?

The tortures of the damned!



My all-time favorite is Holy Shit, Man Walks On Fucking Moon. Some of the 'sidebar' headlines are hilarious, too.

"Trophy Wife Mounted"

"Worthless Dog Can't Talk, Drive, Solve Crimes"

"Ramen Master Defeated By New Kung-Pao Style"

"Backstreet Boys Become Backstreet Men In Backstreet Ritual"

"Cheap Garbage Disposal Can't Handle Femur"
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 12:44 PM
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17. "Free-thinking Cat Shits Outside the Box."
Surgeon General Reports: Americans Have Gigantic Fat Asses.

KFC Robbed at Spork-Point.
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:37 PM
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32. Cat General Declares War on String Unwinnable
Another cat favorite!
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 12:45 PM
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18. Why Do These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 12:46 PM
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19. Area Man Has Amazing Ass
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 12:59 PM
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21. Christ kills two, injures seven in abortion clinic attack
Christ Kills Two, Injures Seven In Abortion-Clinic Attack

November 25, 1998 | Issue 34•17

HUNTSVILLE, AL–Jesus Christ, son of God and noted pro-life activist, killed two and critically wounded seven others when He opened fire in the waiting room of a Huntsville abortion clinic Tuesday.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28817

or, of course, the classic "World's largest metaphos hits iceberg, sinks"
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electricmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 01:00 PM
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22. Rain at Woodstock Results in Slightly Dirtier Hippies
Or "God Kills Oral Roberts for Fundraising Shortfall"

Really too many to chose from.
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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 01:11 PM
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23. "Pier 1 Issues Formal Apology For Rattan Death March"
That cracks me up every time.
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 01:13 PM
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24. Smithsonian Institute Respectfully Declines Sofa from "Charles in Charge"
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Saphire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 01:31 PM
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25.  Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self
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Saphire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 01:35 PM
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26. Funyuns still outselling Responsibilityuns.
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 01:40 PM
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27. Spaghetti-Os Discontinued As Franco-American Relations Break Down
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 01:41 PM
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28. "Jerry Falwell: Is that guy a dick or what?"
that says it all
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 01:54 PM
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29. From News in Brief: William Kristol Orders Two Whoppers Jr.
:rofl:

This one isn't hilarious for the headline, but it cracks me up.

Christopher Hitchens Forcibly Removed From Trailer Park After Drunken Confrontation With Common-Law Wife

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27996
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:13 PM
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30. Bush To Clean National Parks by Removing Oil.
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:36 PM
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31. Vacationing Woman Thinks Cats Miss Her
From which my SO and I have actually extracted one of our core principals of existence....

The article discusses someone who has a neighbor come in and feed & water her cats while she's gone, she asks the neighbor to "socialize" with them. Neighbor says "I gave them Friskies and checked their water dish, but didn't hang out with them. And did the cats give a sh#t? No, they did not. Why? Because they're cats."

Shortly afterwards, we were at a party, and in walks an atrocious person that we can't stand, who starts bellowing drunkenly. SO looks at me and said "and do the cats give a sh#t?" and I said, without hesitating: "no, they do not" and he said "why?" and I said "because they're cats".

"Because they're cats" has become our own little personal zen pathway to enlightenment and to Not Flipping Out When Someone Does Something Characteristic and Expected and Intrinsic to their Very Being, However Appalling.

Sorry for the digression.....
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:38 PM
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33. You plus me plus baby minus me makes two.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:40 PM
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34. Bush still getting Clinton's mail.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:31 PM
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36. hamster thrown from remote controlled truck
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Trigger Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:46 PM
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38. My Fave:
Clinton Feels Nation's Pain, Breasts

:rofl:
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 05:22 PM
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40. "Area Bassist Fellated"
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 05:44 PM
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41. Ah! That's a big fave of mine, too.
No one rocked like the Dead Taybacks.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 08:20 AM
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42. Clinton signs Americans with no abilities act.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 09:02 AM
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43. Bill Gates to patent 0s, 1s
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gizmonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 09:35 AM
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44. "Woman unsure what to do, bakes flag cake"
Also "Jerry Falwell. Is this guy a dick or what?"

Just a couple of my favorites
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