The Onion: 20 Years Later @Onion20yrslater
A weekly review of @TheOnion from 20 years ago! Sign up for the Sunday newsletter https://t.co/m4Xm6XODoa. Tweets by @James_daSilva. Not affiliated with The Onion. onion20.substack.com Joined December 2013-
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CHICAGO and ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, April 25, 2024 International megacorporation Global Tetrahedron announced today it has successfully acquired all of the assets to America’s Finest News Source™, The Onion, Inc.™, in a vicious but fair hostile takeover. Global Tetrahedron…
Give Us $1 Or ‘The Onion’ Disappears Forever bit.ly/4bbr1bF
Scoop: G/O Media has sold The Onion. The company told employees in an email today that it was bought by a new company called Global Tetrahedron and the site's staff will be kept on
no clue what's happening here but "Global Tetrahedron" has been The Onion's default fake name for generic corporations for a quarter century now theonion.com/u-s-populace-l…
no clue what's happening here but "Global Tetrahedron" has been The Onion's default fake name for generic corporations for a quarter century now theonion.com/u-s-populace-l… https://t.co/7uwtqymc6J
20 years ago, The Onion said a 32-year-old looked great, by @James_daSilva open.substack.com/pub/onion20/p/…
@drewhamm5 @thesarahkelly @lizroscher Yeah, especially in the 1990s and 2000s. Lots of staffers, their families/friends and locals. Even after moving to NYC in 2001, that seems to have continued for photos and names in articles (Mike Birbiglia, to name just one). onion20.substack.com/p/20-years-ago…
20 years ago, The Onion blasted voters, by @James_daSilva open.substack.com/pub/onion20/p/…
20 years ago, @TheOnion had a wonderful collections of jokes, including an archaic parody of TV listings, including the hot new WB drama “Beautiful, Interchangeable Teens Hurt Each Other’s Feelings.” Here's my weekly @Onion20yrslater review open.substack.com/pub/onion20/p/…
All this and more in my weekly recap of The Onion from 20 years ago: onion20.substack.com
Meanwhile, Smoove B is lonely because his woman won't return. He writes things like: "I will wear my crimson silk pajama bottoms and robe, but neglect to wear the matching shirt, so as to show off my chest and abdomen." theonion.com/i-can-make-thi…
20 Years ago in @TheOnion, revisit Bill Clinton's DVDs, Slobodan Milosevic, the Comanche helicopter, and much more. Featuring my favorite Onion columnist, Smoove B, and a great parody of @kennethcole. onion20.substack.com/p/20-years-ago…
20 years ago, The Onion visited Bill Clinton's DVD library, by @James_daSilva open.substack.com/pub/onion20/p/…
20 years ago, @TheOnion made everyone get gay married in Massachusetts. Also, Bush solves the federal deficit, Al-Qaeda is bad at hockey, says Area Man, good cap and bad cop are both racist and much more. A smorgasbord of classic Onion content. onion20.substack.com/p/2004-the-oni…
20 years ago, The Onion predicted Gillette's 5-blade razor, by @James_daSilva open.substack.com/pub/onion20/p/…
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@Onion20yrslater In ten years, be sure to note this. The last day a print edition was released in Madison.
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