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Okay, 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 ca
by DoreenMichele 2y ago
Okay, 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.
- webnrrd2k 2y agoI really like the T. Herman Zweibel signature at the bottom. He was by far my favorite recurring character. Not the Onion, but a list of H. T. Zweibel articles: https://muckrack.com/t-herman-zweibel/articles https://muckrack.com/t-herman-zweibel/articles
- DoreenMichele 2y agoFYI if anyone else here is as clueless as I am: Publisher Emeritus, T. Herman Zweibel, writes frequent editorials, growing more and more erratic until he's removed from power by the board of directors in the 1950s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Dumb_Century https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Dumb_Century
- gomox 2y agoMight be relevant to point out that "zwiebel" is German for onion.
- jimbokun 2y agoDo you realize The Onion is a satirical comedy newspaper?
- DoreenMichele 2y agoAbsolutely.
- mrguyorama 2y agoDo you also struggle to enjoy other classic satire? Ever read anything by Kurt Vonnegut?
- b112 2y agoSorry what? As a Canuck, US politics is typically indecipherable, eh! Most news makes no sense, until I found The Onion. Now you are telling me, you bunch of hosers made it all up! Signed "Bob Jenkins, Canadian Minister of National Affairs" "You made it all up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”, Charlton Heston, a Great Canadian
- DoreenMichele 2y ago[deleted]
- Talanes 2y agoThere's not any correlation between fitting the standard HN mold and liking The Onion. I'm a barista who just checks in here for the marginal stuff outside the tech professional centered stuff, and I'm a big fan of The Onion. Honestly, I think the disconnect is that you pay very close attention while you read, while the Onion's style caters more to a quick glance-through. They rarely have every point nailed down completely, because they're expecting you to just be moving on quickly anyway.