20 years ago, The Onion tamed the Girls Gone Wild.
Plus, jokes about Detroit, Bush's prayer habits, Mission: Impossible 3, train rides and adopting "Third World" children onion20.substack.com/p/april-2006... #theonion #satire
Happy Easter! On April 19, 2000, @TheOnion.com put these cutout Easter Bunny images into the print edition.
Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million
Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million theonion.com/report-decision-not-to-c...
Remember when Tiger Woods' biggest problem was being too good at golf?
Lots of web-only Onion content from 20 years ago this week, including this lengthy infographic.
I also really like that magazine cover of an old shed lol
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20 years ago, The Onion joked about George Steinbrenner and Tiger Woods.
Plus, jokes about March Madness, Naomi Campbell and the Chuck Klosterman-Bill Simmons dynamic onion20.substack.com/p/the-onion-... #theonion #satire
Hipsters, WWE's stance on immigration, Dove Beauty's 2008 presidential campaign, dangerous raccoons, the inner thoughts of novelists and sitcom writers — so much in this recap of @TheOnion.com from March 29, 2006.
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20 years ago in The Onion, raccoons attacked!.
Plus, WWE's immigration views, Dove's presidential campaign, hipster feuds, Joel Siegel, "Still Standing" and much more. onion20.substack.com/p/march-2006... #theonion #satire
Reviewing The Onion's website: March 22-28, 2006.
The Onion mocks Condoleezza Rice, Congress, Sam Waterston, Microsoft Vista, Linens 'n Things and more. onion20.substack.com/p/reviewing-... #theonion #satire
22 years ago in @TheOnion.com, Coke's Mars Rover found Dasani.
Plus, the Negro Leagues return, Martha Stewart's sentencing, mechanical bulls, "The Apprentice," "Tuesdays With Morrie" and much more.
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21 years ago today, The Onion responded to baseball's steroid scandal by imagining Colin Powell writing a tell-all book about rampant steroid use in the Bush White House.
Plus, RIP Hunter S. Thompson.
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A quote box, featuring this text: “We ask fans to cooperate with Interpol to find the assailant, and call upon British Sea Power, Snow Patrol, and The Postal Service for help,” drummer Paul Thompson told music magazine NME Monday. “The suspect had links to The Decemberists and The Libertines, and we are following up on all leads.”
20 years ago, @TheOnion.com reported on Franz Ferdinand and Gavrilo Princip.
All this and much more in the latest newsletter! onion20.substack.com/p/march-2006...
20 years ago, The Onion mocked Rumsfeld, soup kitchens.
Plus, jokes about Franz Ferdinand, High Times, SCOTUS, the Virgin Mary, MySpace, "The Sopranos" and more onion20.substack.com/p/march-2006... #theonion #satire
The Onion's website obsessed over JJ Redick in March 2006.
Here are The Onion's jokes from March 15-21, 2006, including JJ Redick, LeBron James, Kent State, a Bush aide who got arrested, steroids, Ambien, "South Park," and more. onion20.substack.com/p/the-onion-... #theonion #satire
21 years ago, The Onion graced us with a timeline of Irish heritage for St. Patrick’s Day, including a two-page spread in the print edition!
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22 years ago today, The Onion parodied Bruce Lee's "Enter The Dragon".
Revisit Donald Rumsfeld's Fang Island, a confused best man, Jackie Harvey's Oscar reactions and much more.
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20 years ago, The Onion gave up on the U.S..
Plus, Bibles for Africans, texting a pet's death, capital punishment and a conspiracy theory on being single. onion20.substack.com/p/march-15-2... #theonion #satire
This Weeks Onion Magazine: Still Supreme! Iran’s New Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei On Faith, Fitness, And Supremely Good Sex After 50
This Weeks Onion Magazine: Still Supreme! Iran’s New Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei On Faith, Fitness, And Supremely Good Sex After 50
20 years ago, The Onion mocked Barry Bonds, steroid user.
RIP Slobodan Milosevic and Kirby Puckett. Plus, jokes about Iran's technology, Oprah, the NBA playoffs and "illegal aliens" onion20.substack.com/p/march-8-to... #theonion #satire
I normally post about The Onion's print edition, but this was too good to pass up. 20 years ago this week, @avclub.com profiled "the new faces of Saturday Night Live" Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig.
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“You should be the change that you want to see in the world,” al-Naqib said. “I am prepared to die for my life of slightly less violence, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill thousands of people when it will suffice to simply blow their legs off.”
20 years ago today, The Onion imagined Gandhi filtered through the insurgency in Iraq … and it's a little different!
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20 years ago, The Onion imagined Entenmann's as a nuclear family.
Plus, jokes about Paul Giamatti, "The Grapes of Wrath," superhero mutants, the horrors of coal-miner vigils and much more from March 8, 2006. onion20.substack.com/p/march-2006... #theonion #satire
And, of course, 2004's "Radicals, Extremists Vie For Control Of Iran" from the old Ahmadinejad days.
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And I always like when The Onion does this bit of pretending like some omni-powerful force, a la the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, in 2013's "‘The Onion’ Vows To Carry On Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program Until The Job Is Done"
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2016's "Ayatollah Khamenei Addresses Tehran Prison Mess Hall During Annual Press Correspondents’ Dinner" is a good dig both at him and at the U.S. media's ego about its dinner.
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The headline is too long, but I like 2019's "White House Hires Top Hollywood Agent To Pitch Action-Packed, High-Concept War With Iran To American Public"
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But then I looked back, and there are some good ones!
2019's "White House Claims Iran Behind Attack On Nancy Kerrigan" theonion.com/white-house-...
I was kind of surprised to see The Onion's coverage of Iran was arguably sharper in the first Trump term (and even earlier). To be fair, the very recent "Trump On Fence About Attending Ayatollah’s Funeral" is solid, but ... (short thread)
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20 years ago, The Onion's website quoted Ellie Kemper.
Also, jokes about Vince Young, J.J. Redick, Linda Cohn, the Sex Pistols, the World Baseball Classic and much more. onion20.substack.com/p/the-onions... #theonion #satire
