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Brad Miller
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posted 01-03-2015 02:50 PM

In re-watching the Sony link above, I still think it would be funnier if they removed about 75% of the curse words to make it more realistic, but throw one in on occasion to help clarify that it's not a real news story.

For example the poster "just buy this shit" is funny, and wouldn't have been as funny without the curse word, but having every single person that speaks curse a couple times a sentence is just overdoing the joke.

Honestly I still say THIS video is the best one The Onion has ever produced. They really put forth the effort to make it look real and the casting was spot on, but you will notice it isn't lined with curse words and that made it funnier.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 01-03-2015 03:07 PM

quote: Joe Redifer
The Onion has always had cussin'. Not sure if it's increased or not lately, but I know one of their best headlines ever was "Holy Fucking Shit! Man Walks on the Fucking Moon!!" and that was nearly a decade ago if not more (it was actually in their print edition).

I agree, that was a classic. I almost bought one of those huge hardcover books just to get a copy of that but then changed my mind in a fit of being frugal.

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Frank Cox
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posted 01-03-2015 03:41 PM

Spy vs Spy (Mad Magazine Joke and Dagger Dept.) is one of my all-time favourite comics. I have the book.

Among the most technically impressive games on the Commodore 64 were the three Spy vs Spy games: Spy vs Spy, The Island Caper, and Arctic Antics. And thanks to the magic of vice, I can still play them whenever I want to.

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Steve Guttag
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posted 01-03-2015 05:18 PM

quote: Brad Miller
Honestly I still say THIS video is the best one The Onion has ever produced. They really put forth the effort to make it look real and the casting was spot on, but you will notice it isn't lined with curse words and that made it funnier.

Funnier? It made it scarier! That could have been true...there are people that would buy just about anything Apple makes and justify stupid stuff as "progress." Then again, it was Windows with 8 that actually tried to do away with the keyboard on a laptop!

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 01-03-2015 06:01 PM

I just watched the Sony clip Brad referenced and I have to agree, it would have been funny with maybe half of the cursing left out.

I watched a few other Onion videos while I was at it, and the most annoying thing was not the cursing, but having to suffer thru 5 seconds of the exact same lame ad before each video started.

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James Westbrook
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posted 01-03-2015 10:02 PM

I recall, fondly, the classic National Lampoon's Sunday Newspaper edition which came out in the late 70s or early 80s. I read it cover to cover. I gave it to a co-worker in the mid 80s which inspired him to subscribe to the magazine, which unfortunately for him started getting lame about that time.
Their True section, which consisted of reader submitted articles from local newspapers, and pictures, became the inspiration of similar themed websites 30 years later.

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