The Onion.com

[Perversion]

Does anyone else frequent this site? I used to read the actual newpapers back in college, and have not visited the site as much as I probably should. I also own three Onion books. Anyone else like The Onion's style of humor?

http://www.theonion.com/content/

[Redneck 2000]

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never heard of it.. whats it about?

[Czechs Mex]

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I love the onion; I read the newspapers, but I don't visit the site. My favorite articles are this and this.

[Perversion]

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It's a parody site that makes up fake news stories in the vein of USA Today. Read some of the "articles" in the site. I guarantee you'll laugh at least once.

EDIT:

You must spread some reputation around before giving it to Czechs Mex again.

[Czechs Mex]

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Well, I already decided I'd give Redneck positive rep if Perversion actually responded to that, so there it is.

[Perversion]

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Here's a few I like:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29421

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28771

I'll try to post more as I think of them.

[Kire]

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I used to all the time. It's fallen out of my routine.

Here's my favorite:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39001

[John Mora]

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I usually find the headlines the funniest things, so I just scan the headlines and then head off to the AV Club.

[Perversion]

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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28589
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31119
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38356
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38342

...more to come.

[irate giraffe]

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The onion is usually pretty blah to me. Every once and while they post a good one but they are pretty hit and miss and the site is updated infrequently.

You should go to http://www.avclub.com/content/hater (The Hater by Amelie), which is an offshoot of the onion and has very smart social commentary, updated frequently and always hilariously right on.

[IRC]

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It's not my cup of tea. I actually got one of the books last Christmas, but even if they're fake it's still reading the newspaper.

[Big Rick Cook]

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My sister sent my dad an article from The Onion that was about North Dakota stockpiling nukes. My dad was freaked about it until I pointed out that The Onion was a fake news site.

[Funk]

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I bought The Onion's "Our Dumb Century" and called that that. That's a hilarious read, BTW, especially the JFK's assassination and the Moon landing.

[Loki]

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I usually find the headlines the funniest things, so I just scan the headlines and then head off to the AV Club.

That's my experiance to a T. I read the paper more for movie reviews and Comentaries of the Damned then for the satire.

and the site is updated infrequently

What are you talking about? The site is updated with every new issue.