The Onion articles that come true - Page 3

nath · #21 05-30-2007, 08:08 PM

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Pretty sure Bruiser is making Smoove B happen every night.

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Hahahahahahahaha

private joker · #22 05-30-2007, 08:47 PM

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I bet this article from 2002 sounded like a good joke back then too.

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I must have missed the news. Link please to the story that this Onion article predicted?

guids · #23 05-30-2007, 08:50 PM

I think they both did one, I distinctly remember an 8 blade razor spoof.

miajag · #24 05-30-2007, 08:51 PM

The 15-blade one was definitely SNL. It was one Britney Spears hosted in 2000 or so, I believe.

hosstito · #25 05-30-2007, 09:11 PM

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Was it MadTV or SNL that did the 15 blade razor sketch?

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it was madTV and it was recently posted in this thread

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I prefer the Spishak Mach 20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7TMlrDXtw

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KotOD · #26 05-30-2007, 09:55 PM

December 16, 1998 | Issue 34•20
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28724

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Within hours of the cows' release, police departments throughout the area began receiving reports of bovine fatalities.

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Monday, 18 September 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5354852.stm

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"It has served no purpose to protect the fish at all because we are now finding hundreds of dead fish along the beaches," he said.

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DrSavage · #27 05-30-2007, 10:20 PM

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I bet this article from 2002 sounded like a good joke back then too.

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I must have missed the news. Link please to the story that this Onion article predicted?

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Wired

LA Times

IggyWH · #28 05-30-2007, 10:21 PM

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I bet this article from 2002 sounded like a good joke back then too.

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I must have missed the news. Link please to the story that this Onion article predicted?

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Wired

LA Times

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I figured this was coming once I saw how the RIAA is going after Pandora.

devilbiss · #29 05-30-2007, 10:37 PM

My favorite headline was "Man installs $500 stereo in $400 car".

JaredL · #30 05-31-2007, 12:01 AM

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I haven't been this amused since their "[censored] it we're doing four blades" Gillette piece.

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Too bad The Onion stole that from Mad Magazine:

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I doubt it. It's not like only one person has independently come up with the idea. When it went to 3 blades the first thought that popped into nearly everyone's head was "where will it end."