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All Time Best 'The Onion' Headlines

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    Muise... wrote: »
    They brought out a book of historical news items in 99/00: "Our Dumb Century"

    headlines I remember without consulting it:

    World's Largest Metaphor Hits Iceberg

    William Burroughs Shoots Heroin, Wife

    Holy Sh1t! Man Walks On Moon!

    US Troops Pull Out Of Vietnamese Peasant Girl

    Michael Jackson Undergoes Complete Blackendectomy

    The quotes from Neil Armstrong were great
    "Holy f'ing sh1t man, I'm f'ing standing on the f'ing moon!"


    Also from 1918:

    WA-
    (headline continues on page 2)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    The quotes from Neil Armstrong were great
    "Holy f'ing sh1t man, I'm f'ing standing on the f'ing moon!"


    Also from 1918:

    WA-
    (headline continues on page 2)

    ....with an insanely long list of the countries at war and a little article entitled "Irishman Declares War on Himself." :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    This made me a fan! I'd love for a film to be made about it. :p

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-completes-52year-mission-to-find-kill-god,19263/

    WASHINGTON—After more than five decades of tireless work, brave exploration, and technological innovation aimed at a single objective, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Wednesday that it had finally completed its mission to find and kill God.


    NASA officials celebrate after finally locating and murdering the Supreme Being.

    "I am ecstatic to tell you all today that we have beheld the awesome visage of the supreme architect of the cosmos, and we have murdered Him," jubilant administrator Charles Bolden said after being drenched with champagne by other celebrating NASA employees. "There have been innumerable setbacks, missteps, and hardships over the past 50 years, but we always stayed true to our ultimate goal and we never gave up."

    "We finally got the son of a bitch!" Bolden continued. "He's dead! God is dead!"

    According to officials, God was killed this morning on the moon by a highly trained team of seven astronauts. He was reportedly lured into a trap after coming into contact with the Voyager 2 probe, which was transmitting a false message that NASA wanted to broker a truce with God on "neutral ground."


    Astronauts prepare the Creator's body for its return to Earth.

    "One of our lunar rovers captured an image of God at approximately 2100 hours last night, and we immediately launched a vessel manned by our best assassins," said Richard Egan, Mission Control Chief at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "After exiting the lunar lander, the astronauts approached God under the false pretense of peace, but He must have sensed something was amiss and fled. Our men gave chase in a moon buggy, finally overtaking Him in a crater where He was subdued after several minutes of violent hand-to-hand combat."

    Egan told reporters that it took as many as five highly trained astronauts to fully restrain the Supreme Being. He also confirmed that three of the astronauts sent to kill God were badly injured, but were expected to recover.

    "He was damn fast. And strong—as strong as anyone I've ever engaged," said Captain Trevor Sullivan, the astronaut who, after his weary team dragged a bloodied and beaten God back to the lunar module, executed Him with a single gunshot to the head. "He fought like a wild animal, and the fact that He's omnipotent really worked against us. But we know a few tricks ourselves, and after all was said and done, we took Him down for good."

    "Gotta give Him credit, though, God was defiant right up until the end. Scrappy bastard spit right in my face just before I pulled the trigger," added Sullivan, smiling.

    NASA was founded in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the express purpose of locating and assassinating God. By 1969, it had completed a successful lunar landing, bringing mankind that much closer to neutralizing the Almighty. It was in that year that U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first to step on the moon, and uttered the legendary phrase, "Where are you, God, you ****ing ******? Come and get me!"

    Over the years, officials told reporters, God had proved to be an elusive and formidable foe. In 1986, He destroyed the Challenger shuttle, killing all seven crew members, including Christa McAuliffe, a special operative who had been given orders to seduce and then strangle God with garrote wire. The Lord subsequently blew up the Columbia Destroyer Shuttle on reentry in 2003, and several times sabotaged the Hubble Space Telescope, a large piece of surveillance equipment launched into orbit in 1990 to monitor His activities.

    "I can't tell you how many times God gave us the slip," NASA aerospace engineer David Williamson said. "We learned pretty quickly that you couldn't underestimate Him, not for a second. He was an unbelievably intelligent and resourceful enemy, and if you made even the smallest mistake, you can bet He'd make you pay for it."

    Sullivan's begrudging respect for God was echoed by many other NASA officials and employees. Though most have spent the majority of their adult lives working toward killing God, a certain reverence for the deceased deity pervaded NASA headquarters.

    "It's ironic that despite all of the technological advances and powerful weapons we've made, it was God's trusting and compassionate nature that was His final undoing," said Buzz Aldrin, a former astronaut who ripped out pages of the Bible on the moon's surface in an effort to enrage God and draw Him out of hiding. "I mean, you've really got to hand it to Him. He gave us one hell of a fight."

    "I only wish it had been me personally who got to pull the trigger on that cocksucker," Aldrin added.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭SaveOurLyric


    Man Knocked Unconscious by Swirling Breast of go-go Dancer.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e




  • Registered Users Posts: 11,485 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Am i the only one that doesn't find it remotely funny?

    A cross between a crackpot American tabloid and a crappy contrived American sitcom, I get more laughs from rabies than the Onion.

    Area Man Fails To Get Joke


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43 BarryLyndon


    Heartbroken Chris Brown Always Thought Rihanna Was Woman He’d Beat To Death

    Great writing too. Not everyone gets satire though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    Their new site www.clickhole.com promises to be quality as well. Their spin on Buzzfeed/Upworthy viral bull****.

    e.g. "This video seems silly, but it makes a good point"

    http://www.clickhole.com/video/video-seems-silly-it-makes-good-point-264


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭sheesh


    'Drunken local man promises to show us, show all of us'


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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    'Man Wears Favourite Socks To Work. Tells No One'


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,998 ✭✭✭grohlisagod




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    They've outdone themselves with this video:



  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dick Van Dyke Finally Confesses To Zodiac Killings

    Reaction to this one on Facebook is hilarious:
    It's hard to believe because Dick Van Dyke is so likeable
    Sociopaths are often very charismatic though

    http://37.media.tumblr.com/8f7187b058bca71278991301c1568df2/tumblr_mqvstyKmA71qkt6yoo1_500.png


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There




  • Registered Users Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭racso1975


    Dad Thought He Could Make It Out Of Zoo Without Buying Kids Light-Up ****

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/dad-thought-he-could-make-it-out-of-zoo-without-bu,36319/


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,242 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia




  • Registered Users Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    banquo wrote: »

    Standard deviation not enough for perverted statistician

    :pac:

    This, this is relevant to my interests.

    Why haven't I been reading the onion, not much I like more than some good sarcasm.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    The Onion is brilliant but I hate how it has a paywall. Five articles a month without subscribing is bollocks. :mad:

    Clear cookies my friend,


    Shocking ‘Game Of Thrones’ Finale Concludes With Arrest Of 5 Million Viewers For Piracy
    “The last few minutes of the episode were so intense—one moment the show was proceeding along as normal, and the next I was being shoved into the backseat of a police car and driven to a detainment facility. I just sat there completely stunned for a few minutes, trying to process what had happened. That’s classic Game Of Thrones, though: no one’s safe.”


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    I actually have an onion in my shopping bag while reading this funny thread


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e




  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    If you like The Onion, they'll probably be kindly disposed towards:

    Literally Unbelievable, a website dedicated to posting examples of people sharing Onion stories on Facebook and thinking they're real.


  • Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On Technicality


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    The headlines are funny but the aticles never are; they just drag out the initial gag until it dies.

    Kind of the same with waterford whispers. Some articles have me laughing all the way through though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭Maireadio


    Neil Armstrong's Historic First Words On Moon: "Holy Living Fúck!"


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