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Our Dumb Century
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Our Dumb Century is a mock 20th-century retrospective by the writers of The Onion. It consists of fake front pages whose look and feel parodies that of each era of the century, with headlines and articles making fun of news stories throughout the century. | |
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Subliminal Seduction | |
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Subliminal Seduction: "Bing Crosby Record Reveals Secret Message When Played Backward: 'Have a Swell Day, Ladies and Gents'" | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: "Russians Continuing To Kill Rasputin" details how he was not only repeatedly stabbed, shot, and poisoned, but also run over by a train, electrocuted, dissolved in acid, set on fire, impaled with a cavalry spear, Buried Alive, beheaded twice and chopped into tiny pieces, but still refused to die. | |
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Situational Sexuality | |
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Situational Sexuality: "Let's Work Together to Pretend Our War-Time Homosexual Experiences Never Happened" | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: "Aristotle Onassis Killed by Lone Gunman in Athens Motorcade" The entire Watergate scandal, which instead plays out like the Gary Tison prison break, up to and including Nixon being gunned down by police outside of a Motel (Spiro Agnew still at large). | |
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Candid Camera Prank | |
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Candid Camera Prank: "Allen Funt Lets President In on Hilarious 'Cuban Missile Crisis' Prank" | |
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The Klutz | |
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The Klutz: "Gerald Ford Sworn In; Promises Awkwark, Bumbling Transition", in reference to that one time he fell down the stairs. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: All of World War I was caused by Archduke Ferdinand picking a horrible time to do some King Incognito and not tell anybody. | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership: "Mussolini Becomes Italian Dictator After Closely Contested Fist-Fight" | |
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Who Shot JFK? | |
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Who Shot JFK?: Parodied in "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons: President Shot 129 Times from 43 Different Angles". Then all 70+ suspects were shot outside the courtroom by Jack Ruby, leaving the whole thing a mystery. A headline in the next issue is "Warren Commission Admits to Killing JFK". | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: "Idi Amin Praises Former Ugandan Defense Minister As 'Delicious'" | |
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Companion Cube | |
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Companion Cube: "President Ford's Pet Rock Dies", resulting in messages of condolence from other world leaders and "National Day of Bumming Declared" | |
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Real Dreams are Weirder | |
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Real Dreams are Weirder: "Martin Luther King Jr.: 'I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night'", in which he meets Jackie Gleason and is threatened by a giant roll of paper towels, among other nonsense. | |
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Kill Sat | |
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Kill Sat: "US Launches Orbiting Homeless Incinerator" | |
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Radiation-Induced Superpowers | |
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Radiation-Induced Superpowers: Deconstructed in "Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider Dies of Leukemia." | |
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Millennium Bug | |
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Millennium Bug: "Planet Temporarily Closed Due To Computer Crash" | |
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Self-Abuse | |
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Self-Abuse: There is an advertisement for an "Anti-Masturbation Harness and Genital Pouch" that not only locks away the manly parts, but also includes a blade to discourage erections. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: "Holy Shit, Man Walks on Fucking Moon. Neil Armstrong's Historic First Words on Moon: 'Holy Living Fuck'" "Last Night's Fireside Chat Just a Stream of Cuss Words" Richard Nixon gives one during a shootout with police. | |
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Does Not Know His Own Strength | |
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Does Not Know His Own Strength: "Cute Little Mouse Crushed To Death By Petting" | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto: Which gets Ralph Nader killed when test-driving one of the Trope Namers. He is memorialized with a sculpture of a Pinto with an eternal flame rising from its exploding engine. | |
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Worst News Judgment Ever | |
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Worst News Judgment Ever: "Death of 500,000 Somalis Momentarily Distracts Nation from Dream Team Excitement" "President Harding Dies Several Months Ago" | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
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You Have Failed Me: "God Kills Oral Roberts For Fundraising Shortfall", referencing the televangelist's real statement that the Lord would "call him home" if he couldn't raise a particular sum of money by the end of the year. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Richard Nixon is the most prominent one ("Should Nixon Be Brought Back to Kick Around Some More?", "Nixon Vetoes Federal Love and Happiness Act"), but Warren G. Harding doesn't even get articles, just two headlines: "Harding Elected, Forgotten About" and "President Harding Dies Several Months Ago" | |
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Of Corpse He's Alive | |
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Of Corpse He's Alive: "Roosevelt's Remains To Run For Fifth Term". | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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There's also the running gag of cartoons featuring Lady Liberty being sexually assaulted by "The Wretched Spaniard", "The Hun", a Lounge Lizard, a "Capitalist Plutocrat Bastard" ("I've raped everything else in sight, why not you too, Sister?"), Benito Mussolini, Nikita Khrushchev, a dirty hippie, and an Arab terrorist. | |
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Banana Republic | |
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Banana Republic: "CIA Subdues Fruit-Hatted Peoples of Lesser Americas" | |
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The Internet Is for Porn | |
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The Internet Is for Porn: "Computer-Industry Leaders Call For Creation Of Masturbation Superhighway" | |
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Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die | |
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Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: "New President Assures Nation, 'The Only Thing We Have to Fear is a Crippling, Decade-Long Depression'". | |
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"Angry Black Man" Stereotype | |
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"Angry Black Man" Stereotype: "Malcolm X: 'I Also Have a Dream' | |
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Humble Beginnings | |
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T. Herman Zweibel's introduction to the book contains a picture of the invokedearliest existing issue of The Onion, which is titled: "The Mercantile-Onion. Being a Helpful Chronicle and Digeſt of Publick Events of Significant Note, and Well-Found'd Advices, &c., for the General Enlightenment of Letter'd Yankees." | |
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Full-Boar Action | |
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Full-Boar Action: "McKinley Killed By Wild Boar" | |
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Conspiracy Kitchen Sink | |
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Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons" posits that every conspiracy theory about who assassinated John F. Kennedy was true simultaneously. A subhead reports, "President shot 129 times from 43 different angles". | |
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Shoe Phone | |
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Shoe Phone: "Alger Hiss Evades Capture with Secret Evapo-Spy Wristwatch; Rep. Nixon's Emergency Jet-Pack Ambush Fails" | |
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Absurdly-Long Limousine | |
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Absurdly-Long Limousine: "GM Unveils New '55 Cadillac Dreadnought", which rolls on eight wheels, seats twenty-four people, has three-foot-tall tail fins, and comes equipped with a dashboard-mounted martini mixer, basement, and optional three-season patio. | |
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Nostalgia Filter | |
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Nostalgia Filter: The section dedicated to the years 1929 to 1946 is titled "Dust, Despair and Death: Those Were the Days". The title of the next one (1946-1963) is "The Swell Years", which are immediately followed by the years 1963 to 1981: "Peace, Love and Other Bullshit". | |
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Demonic Dummy | |
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Demonic Dummy: How Howdy Doody is written about. Another article describes how Charlie McCarthy went off script during a radio show, telling the audience they should kill themselves. | |
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Creepy Crossdresser: | |
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Chained to a Railway | |
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Chained to a Railway: An advertisement for a railroad claims that this happens less frequently on their railroad than on competing lines. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: "Japan Forms Alliance With White Supremacists in Well-Thought-Out Scheme" | |
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Retraux | |
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Retraux: Despite The Onion having been founded in 1988, all the pre-'80s newspapers shown in the book have period-accurate typefaces and layouts that reflect the style of the time they're supposedly from. | |
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Perilous Old Fool | |
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Perilous Old Fool: Just as in real life, Theodore Roosevelt tried to enlist in the Army to fight WWI. In the article, he's accepted, but assigned to mess hall duty to keep him out of danger. | |
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Heroic Bystander | |
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Heroic Bystander:"Japanese Zeroes Held Off by Boy with Dick Tracy Decoder Ring" | |
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Stay in the Kitchen | |
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Stay in the Kitchen: "War Department Gears Up To Fire 3 Million Women" | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: "Horrible Asshole Richer Than Ever" | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: Some articles have traits of this, such as Archduke Franz Ferdinand showing up alive after World War I, Richard Nixon refusing to resign and instead being arrested, sent to prison, breaking out, and going on a killing spree which leads to his being gunned down after an extensive manhunt, and the US not just losing The Vietnam War, but actually surrendering to them. | |
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MegaCorp | |
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MegaCorp: The final page, for the year 2000, includes the article "All Corporations Merge Into Omnicorp" which also assumes control of all world governments, just for convenience. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Aside from the blatant racism and sexism featured in the earlier pages, some headlines that mock specific ideas of the time are "Man Ventures Outside Hatless", "Surgeon General Warns Against Smoking Any Brand of Cigarette Other than Chesterfields" and "Secret Pac-Man Patterns Fall Into Russian Hands". | |
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Red Scare | |
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Red Scare: "Senator McCarthy: 'I Hold in My Hand a List of 205 Liquor Stores'" "New Medical Report Finds Heavy Petting Linked to Communism" "Sinatra Warns Ruskies to Knock It Off" "Secret Pac-Man Patterns Fall Into Russian Hands" | |
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Nuke 'em | |
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Nuke 'em: "Nagasaki Bombed 'Just for the Hell of It'" "US Army Finds Last Place on Earth Untouched by War, Blows It to Hell" "H-Bomb Test a Success! Eniwetok Atoll Islanders Return to Their Home, a Mile-Wide Crater on the Ocean Floor" "Reagan Nukes Libya" | |
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For the Evulz | |
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For the Evulz: "Nagasaki Bombed 'Just For The Hell Of It'" | |
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The Treachery of Images | |
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The Treachery of Images: "Giant Poster of Mao Seizes Power In China" | |
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Heaven Above | |
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Heaven Above: A spoof headline from the week after the airplane was invented is about the government planning airplane expeditions to Heaven. The story reveals that within ten years, it will be possible for the average American to vacation there. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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The section dedicated to the years 1929 to 1946 is titled "Dust, Despair and Death: Those Were the Days". The title of the next one (1946-1963) is "The Swell Years", which are immediately followed by the years 1963 to 1981: "Peace, Love and Other Bullshit". | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: An article about Peter Parker's death by leukemia, noting that it's the sixth radiation-related death in the past month, following Reed Richards and his crew and Bruce Banner. | |
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Political Overcorrectness: One of the news stories is about an Iowa family being attacked for having only white members. | |
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Hypocritical Humor: "Dastardly Japs Attack Colonially-Occupied US Non-State" | |
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Elvis Lives | |
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Elvis Lives: "Elvis Dead; Is Elvis Alive?" | |
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Failed Future Forecast | |
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Failed Future Forecast: The iconic photo is on the back cover, altered with Truman holding a copy of The Onion with the headline "Other Guy Defeats What's-His-Face". A page of the book itself includes the correction that in fact, What's-His-Face defeated the Other Guy. | |
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Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle | |
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Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle: T. Herman Zweibel's introduction to the book contains a picture of the invokedearliest existing issue of The Onion, which is titled: "The Mercantile-Onion. Being a Helpful Chronicle and Digeſt of Publick Events of Significant Note, and Well-Found'd Advices, &c., for the General Enlightenment of Letter'd Yankees." This has been simplified to "The Best Source of News-worthy Items in our Great Republic"note the hyphen is removed in 1908 by the 1900s, and gets shorter and shorter as the decades pass: | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Felony Misdemeanor: Tax evasion is the only heinous crime Al Capone is even accused of. | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: The French surrender ten minutes after Nazi Germany invades. They do it again when Pearl Harbor is bombed, and AGAIN when the Americans drop a different kind of bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | |
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King of the Homeless | |
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King of the Homeless: There's a small article in 1932 about Herbert Hoover signing an accord with King Gus II, sovereign of all hobos. Also in attendance were the Duke and Duchess of Junkland, Emperor Lazlo of Trashville, and the ambassador to the Big Rock Candy Mountain. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Do you have yesterday's newspaper, an extra bootlace, and some grass?" | |
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K-I-S-S-I-N-G in a Tree | |
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Kissing In A Tree: "Ken Star Taunts Clinton With 'Sitting In A Tree' Song." | |
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Draco in Leather Pants | |
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Draco in Leather Pants: Invoked with "Armed Federal Agents Shoot, Kill Our Beloved Dillinger", which mentions how he was never rude to any of the people he robbed or murdered. | |
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Goofy Print Underwear | |
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Goofy Print Underwear: During World War II, a cartoon shows the Statue of Liberty menaced by the Axis leaders. While Tojo is about to bash her head in with her tablet and Hitler is brandishing her torch menacingly, Mussolini is standing there with his hands on his hips and pants around his ankles, revealing his heart-spotted undershorts. | |
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Blasphemous Boast | |
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Blasphemous Boast: "John Lennon: 'I'm Higher Than Jesus Right Now'" | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: "US Navy Intelligence Reports 'There Is Nothing Like A Dame'" | |
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Ear Worm | |
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Ear Worm: "Irving Berlin Publishes 1000th Annoying, Clamorous Ditty" | |
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Antiquated Linguistics | |
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Antiquated Linguistics: Utilized quite profusely in the earlier parts of the book. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: Aside from the design of the paper itself, the logo of The Onion at the top of the page is repeatedly redesigned as the decades pass until it becomes the current one in the '90s. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Little Orphan Maggie, an orphan girl acquired by T. Herman Zweibel. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: "Nothing Going On In New Mexico" | |
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Big Ball of Violence | |
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Big Ball of Violence: A map of Europe at the start of the Great War looks like one with all the arrows showing countries declaring war on each-other. | |
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Bank Toaster | |
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Bank Toaster: During The Great Depression, Herbert Hoover introduces a Free Toaster Premium Initiative (bread not included) to boost confidence in the nation's banks. | |
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Tutti Frutti Hat | |
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Tutti Frutti Hat: When talking about a Banana Republic: "CIA Subdues Fruit-Hatted Peoples of Lesser Americas" | |
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American Eagle | |
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American Eagle: Despite the name of the paper, it only adopted an onion as its logo in 1968. Before that, most versions were accompanied by an eagle. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: A number of major trials are referred to as the "Trial of the Century." There's also the running gag of cartoons featuring Lady Liberty being sexually assaulted by "The Wretched Spaniard", "The Hun", a Lounge Lizard, a "Capitalist Plutocrat Bastard" ("I've raped everything else in sight, why not you too, Sister?"), Benito Mussolini, Nikita Khrushchev, a dirty hippie, and an Arab terrorist. During World War II, the French kept surrendering. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: "Earth-Quake Marks Least Gay Day in San Francisco History". | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The newsprint style of each individual decade is painstakingly reproduced. There are also lots of period-accurate historical and literary references. | |
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