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The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1
The Onion is the world's most popular humor periodical. Its first book, Our Dumb Century, was a New York Times #1 best-seller and winner of the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Now The Onion returns with Volume One of the paper's greatest, most hard-hitting stories, including:
--Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia: Operation Vowel Storm Will Make Countless Bosnian Nam...more
--Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia: Operation Vowel Storm Will Make Countless Bosnian Nam...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
July 30th 2002
by Three Rivers Press
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This book is a collection of spoof, "Harvard Lampoon" style, irreverent "newspaper articles", poking fun at some standards of the newspaper trade. The one way in which their parodies are NOT perfect is that they are actually BETTER written and edited than real newspaper stories; I found only one typo in the entire book. So not only are they hilariously funny, they're also COMPETENT. Of course, they're completely politically incorrect and generally irreverent; if you have any ...more
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This onion will leave you crying...from laughter!: This is yet another great example of brilliant and witty writing on the part of the Onion's writers. From GM introducing "new, instant-win airbags" to Saddam Hussein stepping down because of a sex scandal and a local child destroying an ant colony, the writing is better than ever. The writers' ribald and vulgar sense of humor is sharper than ever, too, as Monica Lewinsky gets subpoenaed to "re-blow Clinton on Senate floor." I...more
Excellent selection of great Onion stories. After all, what is better than a copy of The Onion? A collection of the best Onion stories.
...a collection of stories and commentaries with a sublime satirical bite. Devotees of the Madison, Wisconsin, weekly will erupt with laughter at each turn of the page, while newcomers will wonder how they have done without such headlines as...
You know, cause it counts as literature. Or something.
The Onion is always a lot of fun, and this great coffee table book.
Laura
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This what I am reading in the bathroom :D
One of my favorite Onion jokes is the headline "Clinton Found Alive."
Like everything the Onion does, 99% of the humor is in the headlines--and they are hilarious--but the articles rarely add any humor to the situation, unless you enjoy the idea of treating the nonsensical headline seriously. But this joke doesn't stretch quite as long as this book is.
This book deserves 5 stars if only for including the post-September 11, 2001 issue...the most profound, funniest and riskiest satire I have encountered in my lifetime.
Read it cover to cover. Mostly while on the john. You care?
T. Herman Zweibel is a hell of a guy.
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