View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
The Happy Warrior
Joined: 10 Feb 2010
|
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:42 am Post subject: Academic Conspiracy Revealed |
|
|
Historians admit to inventing Ancient Greeks
Quote: |
"Honestly, we never meant for things to go this far," said Professor Gene Haddlebury, who has offered to resign his position as chair of Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. "We were young and trying to advance our careers, so we just started making things up: Homer, Aristotle, Socrates, Hippocrates, the lever and fulcrum, rhetoric, ethics, all the different kinds of columns�everything." |
|
|
Back to top |
|
 |
comm
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
|
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I miss walking around DC and picking up free copies of The Onion... Probably the most honest national news source. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
wintermute
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
|
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
comm wrote: |
Probably the most honest national news source. |
That's so true. I have several of the large annual volumes of the collected onion stories, including from 2001-2003, and the coverage of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq alone provides a penetrating insight into the social and political climate of the times. They are so dense, too. I would definitely recommend keeping them around for your kids and grandkids. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010 Location: Multiverse
|
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The onion is just so obvious. It takes zero effort to juxtapose things the way they do. It;s the same joke every issue
'We take one thing and then make a joke about it being it's antithesis huh huh huh.'
The Onion - latest Edition front page
'Steelrails, CC and TUM caught in anti Korean chapter of the BNP recruting drive.' |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
mc_jc

Joined: 13 Aug 2009 Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I
|
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 2:19 am Post subject: |
|
|
huh...
I can't say....anything
So, my next question will be; is marijuana really THAT bad  |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Leslie Cheswyck

Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile
|
|
Back to top |
|
 |
|