The Creepy Thing Is...
...this strikes me as frighteningly possible. The first couple of paragraphs are the best (as with a lot of parody, the initial idea is great, but it doesn't sustain as well), and I kind of wish they'd stopped there. But still.
posted by Madeleine Robins at 9:17 AM
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I suspect the more you work with people like that, the more the satire builds. The Onion people are frickin' geniuses at authenticating details -- the little things that add authority.
The one on "World's Scientists Admit They Just Hate Mice" had me busting a gut.
---L.
You really don't need to read the article to crack up over that one.
My favorite of the Onion's ouevre is still the one where God laid down the word: don't kill, period. Heartbreaking and howlingly funny in the same sentence.
Oh yeah.
Including its killer last line.
---L.
I made a few posts one evening from my sister-in-law's dial-up connection in their log cabin (really) in central Pennsylvania . . . and upon returning home, I find none of them posted.
I think I said something in reply to this thread, about how (the killer last line excepted) most Onion stories say it all in the headline, and I usually read no further.
Their all-time greatest one being: "Commemorative Plate Industry Calls for Tragic Death of Barbra Streisand."
I don't read the Onion a lot--mostly when someone refers a specific piece to me. I can certainly see that a lot of their best work is in the headlines, or at least the first graph or two. I missed the Commemorative Plate article, but as you say, Greg, the headline says it all.
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