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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge |
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TheOnionBookOfKnownKnowledge |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is a mock encyclopedia by The Onion. Entries go from A to Z, including an extra letter made up for the book. |
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2024-04-11T15:30:33Z |
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2024-04-11T15:30:33Z |
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Dropped link to MobyDick: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to ShaggyDogStory: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Madness Mantra |
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Madness Mantra: Under the letter “L� is the word “lonely� repeated over and over again. |
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Staging an Intervention |
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Staging an Intervention: The entry for addiction is this for the reader. |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Baseball consists of two teams of nine players, all of whom desperately want to make their fathers proud. |
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The Alibi |
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During the Nuremberg trials, the Nazis who were on trial said they didn't aid in the Holocaust as they were out of town, on vacation, or otherwise busy during the entirety of World War II. |
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Dead All Along |
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Dead All Along: According to the entry on death, the real purpose of the book is to inform the reader that they are currently dead, and the world in which they currently exist is a figment of their dying brain. |
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Human Resources |
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Human Resources: Coal is made of the compressed remains of perished coal miners whose bodies decompose over thousands of years. |
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Overly Narrow Superlative |
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Overly Narrow Superlative: Elevators account for 85 percent of the world’s slow vertical movement. |
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Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit |
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Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit: The editor claims John W. Paramore might be one. |
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Who Shot JFK? |
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Who Shot JFK?: The entry on the Zapruder Film says that recently discovered missing frames reveal that Kennedy actually shot himself. |
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I Love the Dead |
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I Love the Dead: Paul Newman could get any woman he wants, despite being dead. |
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The Tooth Hurts |
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The Tooth Hurts: The instant an individual falls asleep without brushing, their teeth start to rapidly decay. |
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Ironic Hell |
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Ironic Hell: Osama bin Laden is in a dimension of hell where he's the sole mail-room clerk in the still-standing World Trade Center, the elevators are always out of order, and he must carry numerous filing cabinets, televisions, and couches up the stairs all by himself. |
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Non-Mammal Mammaries |
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Non-Mammal Mammaries: The volupturaptor was a buxom dinosaur that lived during the late Chestaceous Period. |
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Real Dreams are Weirder |
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Real Dreams are Weirder: Inverted. While Salvador Dali’s works were meant to resemble the surreal aspect of dreams, he actually dreamt about things such as winning the lottery and being a rock star. |
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Puny Earthlings |
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Puny Earthlings: Storms serve as a meteorological reminder that humans are soft, weak, and ill-suited for survival anywhere. |
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People Zoo |
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People Zoo: Lying is the act of propagating beliefs that are not true in order to prevent civilizations from knowing they are actually in a type of zoo. |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The scholars who died gathering information on their entry—and many hundreds did—were within 48 hours replaced with a new academic who was forced to start entirely from scratch. |
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Nice Character, Mean Actor |
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Nice Character, Mean Actor: Discussed; The actor who played Andy Griffith was ‘’probably’’ a terrible person. |
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Master of None |
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Master of None: Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents, but he ultimately spread himself too thin and never truly accomplished any one full objective. |
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Sentient Vehicle |
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Sentient Vehicle: The Amazon Rain Forest is populated by these. |
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Wholesome Crossdresser |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: Martha Washington was actually a character created by George Washington, who dressed as a comical woman to entertain and improve the morale of his troops, and later, his Cabinet. |
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Bilingual Bonus |
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Bilingual Bonus: The preface has "A note to our Filipino readers"◊, which is in Tagalog. The entry for fascism starts to define it normally, before Suddenly Shouting in Italian. The entry for lorem ipsum◊ is in Latin. The entry for Cthulhu◊ is in r'lyehian. |
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The Scrooge |
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The Scrooge: The writer for the entry on capitalism is consumed by his own greed while explaining the fundamentals of the economic system. |
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Cool, but Inefficient |
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Cool, but Inefficient: People sprayed acid on cars to clean them and lit them on fire to dry them before anyone realized water and towels were probably an easier solution. |
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Shoot the Builder |
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Shoot the Builder: Once the book was finished, all the scholars were then murdered to prevent the information they gathered from being spread to competing encyclopedias. |
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Fratbro |
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Fratbro: College itself was one. |
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Hates Everyone Equally |
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Hates Everyone Equally: It is foolish to judge people by their race, as it would be much more accurate to judge people by how stupid they look in general. |
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In Memoriam |
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In Memoriaminvoked: The letter V is dedicated to one of the copy editors. |
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Cryptic Background Reference |
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Cryptic Background Reference: The date of June 26, 1997 is referred to as “Dark Thursday.� What took place at the time is never revealed, with the only hint being it was “the blackest and most terrible day in American history.� |
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So Okay, It's Average |
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So Okay, It's Averageinvoked: Chicago is an alright place to live. |
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It Always Rains at Funerals |
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It Always Rains at Funerals: Rain is an aesthetic phenomenon that accentuates breakups and funerals. |
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Zeerust |
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Zeerust: The World’s Fair is an international exhibition series filled with lies about the future. |
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Artifact of Doom |
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Artifact of Doom: The Washington Monument eradicates all life on the planet every 2 million years. |
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Noodle Incident |
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Noodle Incident: Dark Thursday was the blackest and most terrible day in American history. A godmother is a woman entrusted to care for a child in the event both parents died in a freak accident involving a tandem inner tube, a wide turn, and a jetty. At the end of the book is a list of fees, one of which is $109.96. Absolutely horrible things were done to the cornea during the The Spanish Inquisition. |
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Force-Field Door |
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Force-Field Door: The foul line in baseball Highly charged electrical barrier that disintegrates any player who attempts to cross it. |
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Black Speech |
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Black Speech: The entry for Cthulhu is in r'lyehian, an evil language from the Cthulhu Mythos. |
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Historical Hero Upgrade |
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Historical Hero Upgrade: Happens a few times, usually played for laughs. For example, Leon Czolgosz shot William McKinley by accident while trying to get him to autograph his gun. |
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Take That, Audience! |
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Take That, Audience!: The book starts insulting the reader right from the second sentence. Zweibel says this of Onion readers: This is, of course, the motto of The Onion, Tu Stultus Est note You Are Dumb |
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Captain Obvious |
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Captain Obvious: Ludwig van Beethoven would've had an easier time writing music had he not gone deaf. |
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Make It Look Like an Accident |
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Make It Look Like an Accident: Implied; T. Herman Zweibel assumed editorial directorship of The Onion in late 1888 after a mysterious series of logjams, paper mill accidents, boiler explosions, and servant uprisings eliminated all other candidates for the post. |
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Blatant Lies |
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Blatant Lies: Each entry contains precisely 27 letter E's. Adulthood is a stage in one's life where one learns exactly what they want and takes all necessary steps to achieve their goals. Star Wars is a silly old children's film that has no cultural significance whatsoever. A flame thrower is a non-lethal device used primarily for crowd-control. All forms of criminal justice have a 100% success rate the people have the power in the democratic government Elections are a highly-celebrated process in which all voters take pride in the fact that their well-researched ballot casts will contribute to the greater good. The great pacific garbage patch was caused entirely by sealife polluting their own ocean. During the Nuremberg trials, the Nazis who were on trial said they didn't aid in the Holocaust as they were out of town, on vacation, or otherwise busy during the entirety of World War II. Bill Clinton was not impeached by House Republicans because that would have been a laughable waste of time. |
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Spoiler Title |
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Spoiler Title: In-Universe, with the book “Lord Murderson Is The Killer.� |
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Story Arc |
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Story Arc: Anders Van Braak and sonic-neural technology. |
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Cold-Blooded Torture |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_424c9a9b |
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Silly Putty was originally designed to tear the skin off of enemy prisoners. Then it was discovered it could be used as a fun toy for children. |
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Spell Book |
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Spell Book: The Bible is full of spells such as re-animating the dead or cursing an enemy. |
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Downplayed Trope |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_42c9f1ec |
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Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot an arrow into a little brother’s back. Downplayed in that it’s merely an arrow, and not a gun. |
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Going Postal |
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Going Postal: Implied in the entry for chainsaw, which one puts under their desk before work begins early in the morning. |
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Wardrobe Malfunction |
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Wardrobe Malfunction: Implied. Nipples have the ability to temporarily reignite an actress’s career. |
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Vagueness Is Coming |
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Vagueness Is Coming: The Black Death wiped out as much as 60 percent of Western civilization in the 14th century, but pales in comparison to what’s coming. |
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Corrupt Politician |
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comment |
Corrupt Politician: Warren G. Harding, who among other things gave the Grand Canyon to his cousin, sold West Virginia to a German coal company and signed the Harding’s Buddy Is Getting 25 Percent of Our Tax Money Now Act. |
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Alternate Aesop Interpretation |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_48f282a3 |
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Alternate Aesop Interpretationinvoked: The September 11th attacks will forever stand as a lesson to how we view religion, freedom, homeland security, oil consumption, or one of several other things. |
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When Trees Attack |
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When Trees Attack: Photosynthesis involves trees pulling humans underground with their strong roots and sucking them up into their trunks to harvest their nutrients. Defied. The purpose of a vase is to display dead flowers as a stark warning to any other plants that might be planning a revolution to take over the human race. |
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New Technology Is Evil |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_4c6205c5 |
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New Technology Is Evil: Discussed The entry for technology doesn’t complain about modern dependance on technology, but rather the people who do. |
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Mirroring Factions |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_4f6cf75 |
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Mirroring Factions: Atheism is a belief in which one deeply devotes oneself to the nearly nonstop studying, writing, thinking, and talking about God. The Democratic and Republican parties have the exact same entry, with the only difference being the parties are swapped out for each other. |
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Body Horror |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_504a1991 |
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Body Horror: Fashion was developed to disguise mutations in human anatomy, which are shown in grisly detail. Puberty is a stage in human development where fully functioning limbs sprout from the torso◊. |
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The Caligula |
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The Caligula: James Buchanan spent his entire presidency holding monumental orgies and bloody gladiator tournaments. |
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Lotus-Eater Machine |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_5541da8c |
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Lotus-Eater Machine: Western Civilization was nearly ruined in the mid-1990s when almost every American dropped everything in their lives for a few years and strapped on virtual reality headsets from morning until night. |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Inverted. CPR is a brutal process in which the user breaks bones to allow the heart and lungs more room to function, punctures holes in the throat with a screwdriver to facilitate airflow, and other equally graphic steps◊. |
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Easy Amnesia |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_55b1f9a1 |
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Easy Amnesia: Amnesia is caused and solved by hitting someone on the head. |
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Absurd Phobia |
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Absurd Phobia: Downplayed. T. Herman Zweibel had a profound mistrust of barbers, but was not necessarily afraid of them. |
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Sharing a Body |
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Sharing a Body: A five-star general is a two-star general and three-star general trapped inside the same body. |
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Baby Talk |
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Baby Talk: The entry on Coca-Cola is written in this. |
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Hulk Speak |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_5a59b3a1 |
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Hulk Speak: The entry on Creator/Plato is written in this. |
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Suddenly Shouting |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_5ce2c9c6 |
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The entry for fascism starts to define it normally, before Suddenly Shouting in Italian. |
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Sunken City |
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Sunken City: In the future, all of Earth will be underwater. |
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Scare Quotes |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_5fce7196 |
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Scare Quotes: $142.5 million were devoted to research, while another $84 million were devoted to "research." |
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Big Eater |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_5fcedca |
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Big Eater: South Dakota resident Marcus Seltz is someone who can "take down a bucket of crab legs like a freaking combine." |
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Cyanide Pill |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_6363937b |
comment |
Cyanide Pill: In a diagram explaining the various parts of the cell, the centriole is described as always having 1.5 atoms of cyanide in case the cell is captured before it can divide. |
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Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_6376ae9c |
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Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: The shadow cast from a colossal azalea bush◊ shrouded half of the planet in darkness for 2,000 years, causing the famous mass extinction event. |
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Threatening Shark |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_63cad64b |
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Threatening Shark: Though sharks are responsible for a tiny percentage of human deaths every year, one need only to look at a shark to realize they are responsible for millions of human deaths every year. |
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World War III |
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World War III: During the cold war, all of humanity was wiped out five times per hour in the minds of every person on the planet. |
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Pedophile Priest |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_64713b04 |
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Pedophile Priest: Voodoo may sometimes turn people into zombies, but at least it doesn’t result in priests molesting children. |
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Creepy Souvenir |
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Creepy Souvenir: Retrievers are a type of hunting dog that will fetch ducks, but their habit of keeping the feet and stringing them on a necklace is a little morbid for the taste of most people. During World War I, Canteens were used to bring dead German’s blood home as souvenirs. |
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Please Keep Your Hat On |
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Please Keep Your Hat On: Porkpie hats that were donned from the 1920s to the 1950s to conceal the nonfunctional fingers that grew from the heads of men during those years. |
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Lack of Empathy |
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Lack of Empathy: Those who have autism are a higher class of humans who have evolved beyond the need for such primitive things as emotions. |
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Apologises a Lot |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_675ff0f1 |
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Apologises a Lot: Apologies account for 50% of human conversation. |
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Caligula's Horse |
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Caligula's Horse: James Buchanan appointed his dog Excelsior as Vice President after murdering his running mate John C. Breckinridge with a golden scimitar. |
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"Just So" Story |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_6a49268 |
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"Just So" Story: Tectonic plates shift when moved around by massive subterranean monsters who were banished to the lithosphere during the cooling phase of the planet’s formation 4.5 billion years ago. |
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Puff of Logic |
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Puff of Logic: Duane Reade was an American entrepreneur and the founder of Duane Reade drug stores, who promptly evaporated into thin air upon discovering that Duane Reade pharmacy was actually named after the corner of Duane Street and Reade Street in New York, and that he did not exist. |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_6b12722e |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plotinvoked: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States and the Soviet Union completely blew a golden opportunity to have one hell of a war. |
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Serious Business |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_6b35bdff |
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Serious Business: Inverted. A quibble is a minor disagreement over whether to take a family member off life support. |
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Driven to Suicide |
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comment |
Driven to Suicide: Pete Rose killed himself on national television after “bringing disgrace upon the national pastime� by gambling on his own team. Waterfalls are places where water goes to end it all. |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_6e37c196 |
comment |
Once Done, Never Forgotten: Defied with Catherine the Great. Lampshaded with Theodore Roosevelt. Deconstructed with Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, which despite being the time the great general was defeated, is the part of him most everyone knows. |
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20% More Awesome |
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20% More Awesome: There is a chart detailing the loss of dignity over a human lifespan. |
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Understatement |
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Understatement: The Harry Potter series has netted J. K. Rowling more than $32,500. Other than the cheeseburger, the trampoline, and a couple of other things, Earth is more or less like Mars. |
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Man-Eating Plant |
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Man-Eating Plant: Photosynthesis is a process that involves pulling humans underground with their roots and sucking them up into their trunks to harvest their nutrients. Venus Flytraps capable of explosive bursts of speed that allow them to chase down antelopes. |
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Cat Folk |
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Cat Folk: A Cat Person is a half-feline, half-Homosapiens creature that roams the streets late at night in search of a 24-hour veterinarian and a nice, quiet place to get a cup of coffee. Whiskers are described exactly as they are in real life, only they are on human males. |
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Godzilla Threshold |
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Godzilla Threshold: The letter W is called in when the letter U isn’t enough firepower. |
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Serial Killer |
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Serial Killer: 10th president John Tyler was suspected of being the infamous Whig Strangler, a serial killer who murdered 23 people during his 4-year presidency. |
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Adaptational Badass |
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Adaptational Badass: Annie Sullivan taught Helen Keller the same things she did in real life, along with military tactics, such as stealth reconnaissance, demolitions, and close-quarters combat. |
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Admiring the Abomination |
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Admiring the Abomination: Gary Leon Ridgeway's managed to murder an ‘’impressive’’ number of people before finally getting caught. |
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Sinister Surveillance |
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Sinister Surveillance: Acorns are surveillance device manufactured by the government. Mosques are filled with listening devices by the FBI. |
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Violence is the Only Option |
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Violence is the Only Option: The invariable result of violence is the successful resolution of a problem. |
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Red Sky, Take Warning |
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Red Sky, Take Warning: A Cumulonimbus is a large, vertically oriented cloud that augurs dark tidings. |
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Paranoia Fuel |
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Paranoia Fuelinvoked: The more one reads about psychopathy, the more it seems to describe every single person they know, including themselves. |
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Spontaneous Generation |
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Spontaneous Generation: Teddy Roosevelt’s face willed itself to burst forth from the granite rock on Mount Rushmore. |
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Portmanteau |
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Portmanteau: Volupturaptors were buxom dinosaurs that lived approximately 71 to 75 million years ago during the late Chestaceous Period. |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Charlemagne forced millions to choose between one of three options: convert to Christianity, be slaughtered indiscriminately, or just go on minding their own business while agreeing to disagree on the religion issue. |
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Star Wars (Franchise) |
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Star Wars is a silly old children's film that has no cultural significance whatsoever. |
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Pun |
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Pun: A ghostess is a spirit of a deceased female maître d’ who haunts the front of restaurants and attempts to gain revenge on guests who wronged her in life by making them wait forever for a table at the bar. A trial party is a social party thrown to celebrate the end of a trial. |
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Alternate Universe |
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Alternate Universe: Shunroku Kuriboshi was a mass-murdering Japanese general and despot in an alternate reality where he didn't die of scarlet fever at the age of 2. |
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Eldritch Abomination |
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Eldritch Abomination: The federal reserve is a bizarre, unknowable entity that humanity puts its faith in despite its inherently incomprehensible nature. |
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Bait-and-Switch |
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Bait-and-Switch: The entry on William Howard Taft is the only bio that is completely normal until the end mentions how fat he was. A Xylocarp is a 200-foot-long prehistoric fish. Actually, it's any plant that produces fruit with a woody exterior. The entry on Hell gradually becomes a description of Wal-Mart. |
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Reptilian Conspiracy |
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Examples of reptiles include lizards, crocodiles, and upright creatures wearing the skin of your next-door neighbor, Jeremy. |
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Deconstructed Trope |
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Deconstructed with Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, which despite being the time the great general was defeated, is the part of him most everyone knows. |
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These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know |
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These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Education should be avoided if one doesn’t ever want to know about the horrors of the world, such as war, infectious diseases, and the alienating, inconceivable vastness of the universe. |
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Cerebus Retcon |
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Cerebus Retcon: Charlie Chaplin tripped, stumbled, and fell through many scenes in his films due to his crippling condition (a debilitating inner-ear infection that severely impaired his sense of balance). |
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Measuring the Marigolds |
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Measuring the Marigolds: The color beige may seem like a bland, boring color, but that viewpoint can change if one considers the intricate, beautiful process involved in seeing such specific colors. |
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Crazy Cat Lady |
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Crazy Cat Lady: Freyja's cat-pulled chariot is considered a giant red flag by the other Norse gods. |
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Exaggerated Trope |
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Exaggerated; The Aztec empire was known for incorporating human sacrifice into every aspect of daily life. |
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Hooks and Crooks |
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Hooks and Crooks: A fishing hook is the most dangerous weapon in the world. |
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Shaped Like Itself |
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Shaped Like Itself: An elephant is a large, heavy, plant-eating mammal that is an elephant. Magnets are used generally to demonstrate how a magnet works. Inverted with Ronald Reagan. The entry describes how, by greatly increasing the federal deficit and the federal workforce, raising taxes, and selling weapons to terrorist groups, Reagan was not even remotely 'Reaganesque'. The most 'Reaganesque' president, who significantly decreased the federal workforce, cut taxes, produced a budget surplus, and presided over a period of strong economic growth, was actually Bill Clinton. |
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Money, Dear Boy |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_98a19d7f |
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Money, Dear Boyinvoked: Walt Disney was renowned for his childlike enthusiasm for money. |
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Poke the Poodle |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_991af300 |
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A ghostess is a spirit of a deceased female maître d’ who haunts the front of restaurants and attempts to gain revenge on guests who wronged her in life by making them wait forever for a table at the bar. |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: “Walk This Way,� was recognized as the first rock/rap collaboration. Unknown to the artists at the time, it unlocked a foul, subterranean portal from the depths of which Limp Bizkit would one day emerge. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_99ddfcec |
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Villains Out Shopping |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_9ae0ead1 |
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Villains Out Shopping: David Berkowitz became a serial killer after misinterpreting instructions from his neighbor’s demonically possessed dog, who had in fact only wanted Berkowitz to take care of some errands he’d been putting off for a while. |
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Stealing the Credit |
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Stealing the Credit: Thomas Edison invented the credit-taking machine. |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_9bb8ac92 |
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Dead Guy on Display |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_9bfb2f41 |
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Dead Guy on Display: The purpose of a vase is to display dead flowers as a stark warning to any other plants that might be planning a revolution to take over the human race. |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_9bfb2f41 |
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Filler |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_9de2bf95 |
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Filler: The bottom of the page for the entries starting with x admits few words in the English language start with x, so it put a bunch of x’s to fill the empty space. |
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Sarcasm Mode |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_9f80e1da |
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Sarcasm Mode: During Ramadan, Muslims refrain from eating, sex, drinking alcohol, and doing drugs during daylight hours, in stark contrast to the nonstop, out-of-control decadence of the typical Muslim lifestyle. |
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Overshadowed by Controversy |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a04ec6cb |
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Overshadowed by Controversyinvoked: The Warren Commission Report was criticized for including a tiny collectible shard of JFK’s skull in every edition. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a04ec6cb |
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| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a0eeac39 |
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Odd Name Out |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a0eeac39 |
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Odd Name Out: George W. Bush’s nicknames included “Old Fuckup,� “Old Massive Fuckup,� “Old Huge Pile Of Fuckup,� and “Squirt.� |
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My God, What Have I Done? |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a1b141f4 |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Pete Rose killed himself on national television after “bringing disgrace upon the national pastime� by gambling on his own team. |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a1d70162 |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot an arrow into a little brother’s back. Downplayed in that it’s merely an arrow, and not a gun. Leon Czolgosz was so excited to have his gun signed by William McKinley, he forgot to unload his weapon and accidentally shot and killed the president. |
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Eye Scream |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a2b38d3b |
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Eye Scream: Yellowthroats incapacitate adult males, peck out their eyes, then build nests in the sockets. |
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Gratuitous Latin |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a448674 |
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Gratuitous Latin: The definition of Lorem Ipsum is in Latin. |
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Mood Whiplash |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a4c37cbe |
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Mood Whiplash: Taxation is a process by which slimy IRS stooges reach right into your wallet with their grubby little fingers and rob you blind for the purpose of maintaining a safe, functioning society. Silly Putty was originally designed to tear the skin off of enemy prisoners. Then it was discovered it could be used as a fun toy for children. |
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I Want My Jet Pack |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a567f7f2 |
comment |
I Want My Jetpack: Physics is a science that has been studied for centuries, yet annoyingly, no one has used it to create a time machine. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a567f7f2 |
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Karma Houdini |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a70223 |
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Karma Houdini: Despite his past as a Ku Klux Klan leader, anti-Semite, and extremist, Thomas Robb continues to live happily to this day. |
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Piranha Problem |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a886bc5 |
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Piranha Problem: The Amazon river is filled with Piranhas, as it was given to them in exchange for never setting foot on land. |
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And I Must Scream |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a8a04f6f |
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And I Must Scream: Anesthesia allows people to feel all the pain of a normal operation, but helpless to let anyone know. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_a8a04f6f |
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The Most Dangerous Video Game |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_ab3b6852 |
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The Most Dangerous Video Game: How Albert Einstein believes World War XI will be fought. |
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Nuke 'em |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_ac320c0e |
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Nuke 'em: Harry Truman used the nuke option as often as he could after using it during World War II. |
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Hellgate |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_ac5b526d |
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Hellgate: The song “Walk This Way� opened one of these. |
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Punk in the Trunk |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_ad54954f |
comment |
Punk in the Trunk: Rio De Janeiro is an exciting place to visit, as long as one takes caution not to get kidnapped and stuffed in the trunk of a car, like the writer of the entry. |
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Droste Image |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_b3860333 |
comment |
Droste Image: The image for “Meta.â€�◊ |
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Sexbot |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_b3deb1c6 |
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Sexbot: Becoming sexual slaves to humanity is the ultimate destiny for robotics. |
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Take That! |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_b53077b3 |
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Take That!: The book claims that Limp Bizkit literally emerged from the bowels of Hell. |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_b53077b3 |
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The Ace |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_b5b4b077 |
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The Ace: Jimmy Carter led such an impressive life, his presidency was actually the least interesting part of it. |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_b5b4b077 |
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Rage Against the Heavens |
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Rage Against the Heavens: Waterskiing was invented in total defiance of God’s will and developed sheerly from the furious, impotent anger people feel at being forced to live as sentient creatures in a fleeting and meaningless world. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_b82ca416 |
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Beam Me Up, Scotty! |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_bcb2cfe1 |
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Beam Me Up, Scotty!invoked: A quote is a loose approximation of something a notable figure once said that is then attributed to someone else. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_bcb2cfe1 |
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Improbable Aiming Skills |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_bcd27e37 |
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Exaggerated; Annie Oakley was able to shoot individual atoms. |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_bdbfd01c |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word: Voof is a meaningless filler word that exists only to take up space. |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus! |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_bf64a255 |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus!: Downplayed. Satan isn’t into most kinds of metal, but he thinks it’s alright. |
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Fun with Acronyms |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c25c7890 |
comment |
Fun with Acronyms: The Sonic-Neural Agitator is known colloquially as a SNAg. |
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Irony |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c335b9ec |
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Irony: Chinese food is a popular type of American cuisine Venus is an unspeakably arid, craggy, desert-like wasteland named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. American forces pulled a statue of Saddam Hussein to the ground to celebrate their victory over Iraq, where it would stay for the remaining eight years of the war. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c335b9ec |
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Ass Shove |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c45c9fcd |
comment |
Ass Shove: The reference guide at the end has a scale of "How far one can shove this encyclopedia up one's ass in relation to how big a piece of shit one is." |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c45c9fcd |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c45c9fcd |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c5385ad9 |
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Horrible Judge of Character |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c5385ad9 |
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The Warren G. Harding administration was one of the most corrupt in American history, but Harding himself wasn't involved in it and was probably ignorant of just how crooked many of his cabinet members were. Here, he's a Corrupt Politician to the Nth degree, doing things like selling the state of West Virginia to a German coal company. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c5385ad9 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c5385ad9 |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c5f0119c |
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Insane Troll Logic |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c5f0119c |
comment |
Insane Troll Logic: CPR is a brutal process in which the user breaks bones to allow the heart and lungs more room to function, punctures holes in the throat with a screwdriver to facilitate airflow, and other nonsensical steps. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c5f0119c |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c5f0119c |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c66cb5a9 |
type |
Human Sacrifice |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c66cb5a9 |
comment |
Human Sacrifice: Exaggerated; The Aztec empire was known for incorporating human sacrifice into every aspect of daily life. The Paleo-Indians who migrated to North America utilized the Washington Monument for religious rituals and performed hundreds of human sacrifices on the tip of the obelisk. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c66cb5a9 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c66cb5a9 |
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Self-Destruct Mechanism |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c69ae9b2 |
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Self-Destruct Mechanism: Acorns, which are used for surveillance, are equipped with these in case a surveillance operation is compromised. |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c69ae9b2 |
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Pretentious Latin Motto |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c70fc0a2 |
comment |
This is, of course, the motto of The Onion, Tu Stultus Est note You Are Dumb |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c70fc0a2 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c70fc0a2 |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c868a42a |
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Freudian Excuse |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c868a42a |
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Freudian Excuse: Joseph McCarthy was instilled with a life-long hatred of communism after growing up on the edge of a rough communist neighborhood in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c868a42a |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c868a42a |
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Self-Deprecation |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c9597a03 |
comment |
Self-Deprecation: Satire is the act of being a wise-ass and saying it’s for a higher purpose. Under the definition for slump, the book is called “a goddamn pointless abortion of a book.� |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c9597a03 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c9597a03 |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_cb12aacf |
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Deus ex Nukina |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_cb12aacf |
comment |
Deus ex Nukina: An explosion is a violent burst of energy produced by the interaction of combustible materials that is required to resolve the story lines of all movies, books, and plays. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_cb12aacf |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_cb12aacf |
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Body Backup Drive |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_cbf07961 |
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Body Backup Drive: Camels store an extra copy of their body in their hump in case they die. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_cbf07961 |
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Tank Goodness |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_cd809603 |
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Tank Goodness: A tank is an amazing machine that combines the fun of driving with the entertainment of blowing up shit with a massive gun. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_cd809603 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_cd809603 |
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The Napoleon |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d080f396 |
comment |
The Napoleon: Napoleon’s deep insecurities about his small physical stature pushed him to conquer much of Europe while driving around in a Porsche 911. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d080f396 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d080f396 |
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Freestate Amsterdam |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d2b6b2f6 |
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Amsterdam is known for such things as gorgeous architecture, a vast canal system and hard-core fucking. |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d2b6b2f6 |
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Sterility Plague |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d32d01aa |
comment |
Sterility Plague: Video Games were developed in the late 20th century to discourage sexual activity among society’s undesirables. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d32d01aa |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d32d01aa |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d355ba37 |
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Turned Against Their Masters |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d355ba37 |
comment |
Turned Against Their Masters: The ROV Hercules, an unmanned deep-sea submersible broke contact with marine researchers on April 3, 2004, and has since been implicated in a series of grisly and fatal attacks on swimmers throughout the world. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d355ba37 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d355ba37 |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d59f277b |
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Un-Installment |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d59f277b |
comment |
Uninstallment: The book is the 183rd imperial edition, yet there are no others. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d59f277b |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d59f277b |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d6b5863 |
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Driven to Madness |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d6b5863 |
comment |
Driven to Madness: Yellowthroats do this to people they put nests in. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d6b5863 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d6b5863 |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d7ab4666 |
type |
Skeletons in the Coat Closet |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d7ab4666 |
comment |
Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Ancient surfboards are made from the skulls of the rider’s slain enemies. More modern ones, however, are made from carbon-fiber/skull composites. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d7ab4666 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d7ab4666 |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d8f3dc8 |
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Eternal Recurrence |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d8f3dc8 |
comment |
Eternal Recurrence: Every 2 million years the Washington Monument emits a powerful beam of energy that eradicates all life on the planet. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d8f3dc8 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_d8f3dc8 |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_dd082289 |
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A Million Is a Statistic |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_dd082289 |
comment |
A Million Is a Statistic: The Equatorial Guinea Genocide wasn't a major event, and was simply a power-crazed dictator killing about 80,000 people. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_dd082289 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_dd082289 |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_ddc4aa51 |
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Unobtanium |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_ddc4aa51 |
comment |
Unobtanium: Validation is the rarest and most precious substance on the planet. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_ddc4aa51 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_ddc4aa51 |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_e0e8cce6 |
type |
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_e0e8cce6 |
comment |
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Confucius was a naïve idiot for believing governments shouldn’t be corrupt. |
| The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_e0e8cce6 |
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_e0e8cce6 |
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Living Aphrodisiac |
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Living Aphrodisiac: The letter B transports english speakers to heights of pleasure they never thought possible. |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Part of the research for this book was done in special interrogation chambers in which knowledge experts in various fields were hooked up to electrodes and questioned by trained Zweibel Center Interrogators until they reveal every detail of the knowledge they possess. |
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Historical Villain Upgrade |
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Historical Villain Upgrade: Parodied a number of times. The Aztecs were big on human sacrifice even by Mesoamerican standards, but according to the book, they incorporated it into every aspect of daily life. While James Buchanan is on the short list for the title of "worst American President", he wasn't a depraved madman who personally murdered his first Vice President and hosted bloody gladiator tournaments. The Warren G. Harding administration was one of the most corrupt in American history, but Harding himself wasn't involved in it and was probably ignorant of just how crooked many of his cabinet members were. Here, he's a Corrupt Politician to the Nth degree, doing things like selling the state of West Virginia to a German coal company. |
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Gorn |
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Gorn: CPR is a brutal process in which the user breaks bones to allow the heart and lungs more room to function, punctures holes in the throat with a screwdriver to facilitate airflow, and other equally graphic steps◊. The definition of weapon goes into excruciating detail about what can be done with weapon. |
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Freestate Amsterdam |
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Freestate Amsterdam: Amsterdam is known for such things as gorgeous architecture, a vast canal system, and hard-core fucking. |
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The Plan |
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The Plan: The Reference guide at the end quotes said trope. |
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Tactical Withdrawal |
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Tactical Withdrawal: Desertion is a highly effective tactical maneuver when one is attempting to not end up with one’s guts in one’s hands. |
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Talking the Monster to Death |
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Talking the Monster to Death: An exorcism is an act of presenting a well-reasoned argument against the existence of God to someone who claims to be possessed by a demon, causing them to stop and realize how silly all that convulsing must have looked. |
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All Just a Dream |
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All Just a Dream: Centrifugal force is a fictitious force because reality is an illusion, and we're all just some guy's dream. |
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Groin Attack |
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Groin Attack: Lyndon Johnson rose to become President by threatening to cut off the pecker of anybody who disagreed with him. |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers were killed because of their controversial belief that you shouldn’t treat people like shit all the time. |
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Defied Trope |
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Defied. The purpose of a vase is to display dead flowers as a stark warning to any other plants that might be planning a revolution to take over the human race. |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Amsterdam is known for such things as gorgeous architecture, a vast canal system and hard-core fucking. The brain is an organ tasked with things like cognition, interpreting sensory information, replaying shameful and embarrassing memories, and motor function. Female spiders use egg sacs to carry around personal items, money, and thousands of spiderlings. Pediatrics involves treating owies, boo-boos, and advanced childhood leukemia. Microscopes are optical instruments used for viewing very small objects such as minerals, samples of a teacher’s semen, or plant cells. Examples of reptiles include lizards, crocodiles, and upright creatures wearing the skin of your next-door neighbor, Jeremy. |
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The Owl-Knowing One |
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The Owl-Knowing One: One of the members of the editorial board was an owl. |
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Terrible Artist |
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Terrible Artist: The artist for the picture of the turnip◊ is this. |
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Murder Is the Best Solution |
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Murder Is the Best Solution: Engaging in war is the first resort in conflict resolution before opposing nations are forced to engage in diplomacy. |
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Running Gag |
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Running Gag: The narrator waxes wistful about his ex-girlfriend Caroline. Griping about statutory rape laws. Several of the entries add up to a noir mystery plot when read in the right order. Weirdness involving the Seychelles. |
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Comically Missing the Point |
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Comically Missing the Point: The entire purpose of chemistry is to create bubbles. René Magritte, artist behind "The treachery of images�, must have been a fool, as the image is clearly a pipe. The moral of Moby-Dick was that it’s good not only to have goals, but also to do everything in one’s power to achieve them. |
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Department of Redundancy Department |
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Department of Redundancy Department: An elephant is a large, heavy, plant-eating mammal that is an elephant. The grain food group consists of foods such as bread, bread, bread, and bread. Also can be found in toasted bread and bread. |
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China Takes Over the World |
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China Takes Over the World: The letter X doesn't see much use now, but it will be used much more often when China becomes the world's biggest superpower. |
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Accidental Murder |
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Accidental Murder: Leon Czolgosz was so excited to have his gun signed by William McKinley, he forgot to unload his weapon and accidentally shot and killed the president. |
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Voodoo Zombie |
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Voodoo Zombie: Voodoo may sometimes turn people into zombies, but at least it doesn’t result in priests molesting children. |
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