The 'Onion' Ad Nauseam : Another Year of the 'Onion

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by Onion Editors

The Onion team is back with more deadpan headlines, opinion pieces, news in brief . . . in fact every last damn word published by America's Finest News Source(TM) in the past year. This is their fifth book and the second in a series of complete yearly roundups - the previous 12 months' editions, and not available online - with all the news The Onion brought to the masses in their fourteenth year.

From the cutting edge of world events came, 'US Urges Bin Laden To Form Nation It Can Attack', 'President Urges Calm Restraint Among Nation's Ballad Singers' and 'Eight Million Americans Rescued From Poverty With Redefinition Of Term'.

Not forgetting old favourites, the team also found time to champion stories like 'Pepsi Super Bowl Ad Raises Worldwide Pepsi-Awareness 0.00000000001 Percent' and 'United States Toughens Image With Umlauts'.

The Onion Ad Nauseam Volume 14 is back to bring you pure Onion, wrapping it's cultural commentary and loony anecdotes in the language of a suburban daily. Still the original and best way to take a humorous look at world events, this will appeal to anyone with a sense of humour . . . except maybe if you work in politics.

Genres: Humor, Fiction, Collections, Comedy

Paperback

First published September 23, 2003

Reviews

[Jimyanni · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a collection of spoof, "Harvard Lampoon" style, irreverent "newspaper articles", poking fun at some standards of the newspaper trade. What is particularly amazing about this is that not only do they fill an entire book with spot-on parodies of headlines, but in most cases, they actually write the article that goes with the headlines, and remain just as spot-on in their parodies. (In a few cases, all we see is headlines with fake "see story on page xx" tags.) My only complaint is with the "Ask A (fill in the blank)" repeating feature, which spoofs advice columns by having standard, run-of the mill advice column questions directed to some completely random "columnist" (Third Party Candidate, Raymond Carver, A High School Student Who Didn't Do The Required Reading, Someone Who Insists On Dominating the Conversation, etc) who makes no effort whatsoever to actually answer the questions, but simply goes off on their own rant. This was just barely amusing the first time, but did not bear repeating a second time, much less in over a half-dozen iterations. It would have been more amusing if the "columnist" actually made vague hand-waving gestures at responding to the questions, but somehow managed to drag their own screed into each answer; the total and complete disconnect was a gag that got old very quickly. Nor did I find the "columns" by "Herbert Kornfeld, Accounts Receivable Supervisor for Midstate Office Supply" who talks in gang-slang as if "accounts receivable" was his "turf" to bear repeating as often as it was used; it was funny enough once or twice, but not as a regular feature.

[Annette · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is some of the wittiest writing I've ever come across.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's great drinking music and there's great drinking reading.

[Belle Meade School]

818.607

[Benjamin Plume · Rating 4 out of 5]

These never stop making me laugh.

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny. Funny funny.

[Helga · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book to have in your bathroom.