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I'm old enough to remember when it was a physical paper you'd get for free in Harvard Square... wish I kept some of them. I particularly enjoyed the old "Point
by lubujackson 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember when it was a physical paper you'd get for free in Harvard Square... wish I kept some of them.
I particularly enjoyed the old "Point/Counterpoints" such as:
https://www.theonion.com/u-s-out-of-my-uterus-vs-we-must-deploy-troops-to-jess-1819594277 https://www.theonion.com/u-s-out-of-my-uterus-vs-we-must-dep...
https://www.theonion.com/americas-homeless-want-a-hand-up-not-a-handout-vs-i-w-1819594266 https://www.theonion.com/americas-homeless-want-a-hand-up-no...
https://www.theonion.com/my-computer-totally-hates-me-vs-god-do-i-hate-that-b-1819594270 https://www.theonion.com/my-computer-totally-hates-me-vs-god...
Also, shout out to the "Oh! Mumford" comic strip that was insane absurdist meme-fuel. Might have to go to Internet Archive to unsurface those.
- hinkley 3y agoRed Meat still exists, but absolutely nobody knows what I mean when I say, "I hate you, Milkman Dan" and hasn't for 25 years.
- jonathankoren 3y agoI loved Red Meat. I didn’t know it still existed, but I do have three of the books. I also have the complete Jim’s Journal, but alas I never got a t-shirt. “I went to class even though I didn’t real want to” was my favorite
- gcanyon 3y agoI see you, Papa Moai! Taking a shot: Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles?
- bartc 3y ago… … Is it still there?
- hinkley 3y agoIt is. Don’t look. One of my favorites.
- kbenson 3y agoI used to love that comic. I suspect I still will, but I'll know for sure after binge the 20+ years I missed. :)
- creamyhorror 3y agoOh gosh Milkman Dan, what a blast from the past. All the good memories of early edgy net absurdism.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI don't think I'm the target audience. I don't really get it. I spent years homeless. I try to write about meaningful ways to help the homeless while preserving their agency. I try to write about systemic issues I feel contribute to the problem. I don't find that second link funny or relatable or anything that makes sense to me.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoI don’t think any of the articles that grandparent linked are really the most exemplary Onion articles. The onion is really at its best when it manages to nail it exactly right. Sometimes they are just so perfectly in touch with cultural zeitgeist it’s uncanny. Here are two of the most memorable ones in recent memory: https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1848971668 https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na... https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-stands-with-israel-because-it-seems-like-yo-1850922505 https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-stands-with-israel-becaus...
- DoreenMichele 3y agoOkay, I chuckled at the Ted Kaczynski signature, aka The Unabomber. I assumed all the other "board member signatures" were similarly infamous bad guys but I can't figure out what they all are and when I search on Steve Hannah, he apparently actually was the CEO of The Onion at one time. I agree with some of their points about it being a conflict going back hundreds of years. I personally think it's inevitable that war broke out given how psycho controlling Isreal is about Gaza's water supply. I still probably am not the target audience for The Onion and won't really understand a lot of it. I was full-time homemaker a lot of years for an American woman my age. I did well in school. I value HN and have participated here a lot, but have zero friends, professional contacts etc via HN. I don't generally "go along to get along." I try to avoid social friction by other means and the result appears to be I don't ever really fit in anywhere because I'm not willing to mouth empty agreement with the group consensus. And, I mean, there's likely other reasons I fail to fit in anywhere but I strongly suspect that's a really large factor.
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoI learned about it via "Monk Gloats over Yoga Championship" https://www.theonion.com/monk-gloats-over-yoga-championship-1819563855 https://www.theonion.com/monk-gloats-over-yoga-championship-... I also frequently mention I don't watch television. In fact, I don't even own one. https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-televisi-1819565469 https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...
- saalweachter 3y agoFor me, it was "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over": https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882 https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of...
- romanhn 3y agoYes, this was an incredibly prescient article.
- tootie 3y agoThis one just keeps on aging like fine wine.
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoThe foresight... still hurts to this day. Wish it had gone this way. From 1998: https://www.theonion.com/clinton-threatens-to-drop-da-bomb-on-iraq-1819564617 https://www.theonion.com/clinton-threatens-to-drop-da-bomb-o...
- toyg 3y agoThe article is funny and I agree with overall sentiment, but it's always surprising how people just forget Kosovo and Somalia. Clinton bombed a European country and doubled down on a hopeless mission in an African hellhole (before giving up), not exactly "sustained peace abroad". Even if you agree with the moves, you can't say it was all peace and love.
- modeless 3y agoMy favorite Point/Counterpoint is https://www.theonion.com/according-to-the-economist-nasa-is-an-industrial-subsi-1819594282 https://www.theonion.com/according-to-the-economist-nasa-is-... "According To The Economist, NASA Is An Industrial Subsidy In Disguise vs. Oooh, Look At Me, I Read The Economist!" I also have to give a shout out to the time they predicted the five blade razor a year before it came out: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
- Scarblac 3y agoAs a nice crossover, the Economist predicted the number of blades to go to infinity in this beautiful graph: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2006/03/16/the-cutting-edge https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2006/03/16/....
- bag_boy 3y agoHoly shit lol that was sooo funny. “Never mind that Dr. Glickman screwed up and bought this colossal ditz of a receptionist more computer than she could ever possibly need for record-keeping at a small dentist's office.“
- bitsinthesky 3y agoI have a stack about a foot tall of copies i collected from the Obama era. Anyone idea what i should do with them? Perhaps donate them to the library as a public good? They are still hilarious. My favorite is one where they pretended a Chinese ceo of a fish company bought the paper. It was filled with articles with bad statistics trying to get the common American to eat more fish, how wonderful the ccp is, and how weak and decadent the American people are. They also made the grammar terrible. Definitely riding the line with seeing what they could get away with!
- pabs3 3y agoYeah, or send them to archive.org for scanning and publishing on the web.
- bitsinthesky 3y agoAnd these fullpage scans provide value above what theonion.com already provides?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- skyyler 3y agoA lot of people will be interested in the ads and other signs of the times.
- ht_th 3y agoBesides, who knows how long theonion.com will stay up. Or keeps giving access to all old articles? After all, they've just been bought. Usually this results in changes, despite new owner's loud promises that nothing will change.
- ajkjk 3y agoWell in this case everyone wants something to change. The onion's glory days were in the past.
- longdustytrail 3y agoThese are all great, another good one is “This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t” https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296 https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entir...
- reducesuffering 3y agoLike fine wine. We need a new 2024 one: Why Republicans Have Little Cachet Amongst the Educated In The Past 2 Decades A Total Fucking Mystery
- Slava_Propanei 3y ago[dead]
- kevinmchugh 3y agoThe point/counterpoint that I have thought about at least once a month for at least fifteen years: https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296 https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entir...
- nadermx 3y ago"You are completely wrong."
- scoot 3y agoIgnoring for the moment that "unsurface" isn't even a word, I think you mean the opposite, "surface" (as a slightly pretentious way of saying "discover").
- DudeOpotomus 3y agoHow do you know someone went to Harvard? They tell you... FYI, The Onion is from Madison WI, not Cambridge...
- pimlottc 3y agoFYI, Harvard Square is a public place, thousands of people visit and pass through it every day who aren't Harvard students. It's not part of the actual Harvard campus (as opposed to e.g. Harvard Yard).
- DudeOpotomus 3y agoAnd still, its nowhere near Madison WI...
- snowwrestler 3y agoI’m old enough to remember when it was a black and white paper you could only get at UW Madison. They had an issue with a banner headline: W A R And when you unfolded it, the subhead was “C’mon! Let’s have one!”