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The Onion is the world's most popular humor periodical. Its first book, Our Dumb Century, was a New York Times #1 best-seller and winner of the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Now The Onion returns with Volume One of the paper's greatest, most hard-hitting stories, including:

Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia: Operation Vowel Storm Will Make Countless Bosnian Names More Pronounceable
Jesus Christ Returns to NBA
I Can't Stand My Filthy Hippy Owner by Thunder the Ferret

Started by two University of Wisconsin undergraduates in 1988, The Onion began...

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Overview

The Onion is the world's most popular humor periodical. Its first book, Our Dumb Century, was a New York Times #1 best-seller and winner of the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Now The Onion returns with Volume One of the paper's greatest, most hard-hitting stories, including:

Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia: Operation Vowel Storm Will Make Countless Bosnian Names More Pronounceable
Jesus Christ Returns to NBA
I Can't Stand My Filthy Hippy Owner by Thunder the Ferret

Started by two University of Wisconsin undergraduates in 1988, The Onion began as an alternative weekly newspaper -- with an emphasis on parody -- in Madison. While some believe The Onion got its name from the slang for a "juicy news story," it was actually named when the two founders were short on cash and eating onion sandwiches. Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers worked as a cartoonist during The Onion's first year, then with Pete Haise, the current publisher, bought the paper from its founders. "For a long time we were kind of a Weekly World News parody combined with your usual sophomoric college-humor publication," says Dikkers. In 1995 Dikkers shifted the focus of the paper to a straight news parody and found the voice for which The Onion is known today.

In 1996, The Onion made an unprecedented launch into cyberspace, and soon became one of the nation's most heavily visited Web sites. The newspaper edition is available in bookstores and newsstands nationwide. With a half-million readers online, more than 350,000 readers of the print edition, and millions of listeners to The Onion Radio News (broadcast on 72 stations nationwide), The Onion has been called "the most popular humor periodical in world history" by The New Yorker.

And the plaudits don't stop there. The Chicago Tribune called it "genius" and Rolling Stone named Scott Dikkers one of the nation's top-ten favorite writers.

Scott Dikkers and the editorial staff of The Onion -- Robert Siegel, Todd Hanson, Maria Schneider, Tim Harrod, Carol Kolb, John Krewson, Mike Loew, Joe Garden, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum -- are based in Madison, Wisconsin.

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The comic geniuses behind The Onion, the hilarious newspaper spoof that has fostered a devoted following all over the world, follow up Our Dumb Century, a compendium of wacky headlines, with The Onion's Finest News Reporting, a collection of clippings that goes behind the headlines to tell the complete story.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780609804636
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 4/28/2000
  • Pages: 165
  • Sales rank: 703,635
  • Product dimensions: 8.49 (w) x 10.85 (h) x 0.50 (d)

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Started by two University of Wisconsin undergraduates in 1988, The Onion began as an alternative weekly newspaper — with an emphasis on parody — in  Madison. While some believe The Onion got its name from the slang for a "juicy news story," it was actually named when the two founders were short on cash and eating onion sandwiches. Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers worked as a cartoonist during The Onion's first year, then with Pete Haise, the current publisher, bought the paper from its founders. "For a long time we were kind of a Weekly World News parody combined with your usual sophomoric college-humor publication," says Dikkers. In 1995 Dikkers shifted the focus of the paper to a straight news parody and found the voice for which The Onion is known today.

In 1996, The Onion made an unprecedented launch into cyberspace, and www.theonion.com soon became one of the nation's most heavily visited Web sites. The newspaper edition is available in bookstores and newsstands nationwide.  With a half-million readers online, more than 350,000 readers of the print edition, and millions of listeners to The Onion Radio News (broadcast on 72 stations nationwide), The Onion has been called "the most popular humor periodical in world history" by The New Yorker.

And the plaudits don't stop there.  The Chicago Tribune called it "genius" and Rolling Stone named Scott Dikkers one of the nation's top-ten favorite writers.

Scott Dikkers and the editorial staff of The Onion — Robert  Siegel, Todd Hanson, Maria Schneider, Tim Harrod, Carol Kolb, John Krewson, Mike Loew, Joe Garden, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum — are based in Madison, Wisconsin.

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CIVIL WAR ENTHUSIASTS BURN ATLANTA TO GROUND

ATLANTA — The city of Atlanta was destroyed and 230,000 were killed Sunday when a group of overzealous Civil War buffs marched through the Georgia capital, burning it to the ground.

"It was very exciting," said Bob Gerhardt, 43, president of the Maryland Civil War Preservation Society, the group responsible for the attack. "We rode in on horseback just after dawn, crossing the Chattahoochee and approaching the city from the west, just as General Sherman did in 1864. We even used the same kind of kerosene as the Union Army. No detail was spared."

The attack began just before 6 a.m., when guests at Atlanta's Peachtree Plaza hotel were awakened by the sound of a cast-iron cannonball blasting through the lobby. Within an hour, the 71-story building was engulfed in flames. By noon, the destruction had spread through the entire downtown area.

"First the Braves lose the World Series, and now my whole family is dead," said Atlanta resident Ben Halleran. "This has been quite a week."
  
While the attack caused some $2.1 billion in damage, it did have a positive side, since the city's 124,000 black residents were freed.

"Run, run free!" Preservation Society member Phil Spillner, a Baltimore-area dentist, shouted to a group of black men near the CNN Building. "You have all been freed! God bless President Lincoln!"

Nearby, at the Georgia Dome, a battalion of Union soldiers stormed onto the field during the third quarter of the Atlanta Falcons' game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, emancipating a number of Falcons, including All-Pro linebacker Jessie Tuggle.

According to Gerhardt, the history buffs plan to continue their assault on the heart of Dixie, marching all the way to Savannah.

"We will drive the Rebels to the sea," said Phyllis Borelli, a Silver Spring, MD, legal secretary. "Ooh, this is so fascinating — I feel like I'm really there!"

The Atlanta attack is the most destructive historical reenactment since 1991, when a group of Cleveland-area WWII buffs dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. — October 30, 1996

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DESPERATE VEGETARIANS DECLARE COWS PLANTS

LAS VEGAS — At its annual national conference Saturday, the American Association of Vegans and Vegetarians released results of a detailed in-house study determining that the common beef cow is actually a plant, 100 percent fit for vegetarian consumption.

"Contrary to what was previously thought, the cow is not a higher form of animal life, capable of thinking and feeling pain," announced AAVV spokeswoman Denise Chalmers to the large crowd. "Rather, we have found it to be a harmless, non-sentient form of plant life, utterly incapable of experiencing the slightest pain or simplest thought."

Chalmers then passed around a large tray of dripping red meat, which the vegetarians in attendance ravenously devoured, feverishly licking the bloody juice from their fingers.  

According to the AAVV researchers who conducted the study, cows feature many of the basic characteristics of plants. In addition to possessing roots, leaves and branches, cows produce pollen, which in the springtime is eagerly devoured by honey bees.

"The bees swarm feverishly around the cow, eager to get a taste of its delicious nectar," Chalmers said. "The cow, however, is usually too busy taking up water through its hooves, or 'roots,' to even notice."

Cows, say researchers, also practice photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy.

"When exposed to sunlight, the cow produces chlorophyll," researcher Darrick Holten explained. "The cow then uses the chlorophyll to produce chemical energy."

Added Holten: "A very similar process occurs in chickens."

According to Chalmers, the study's findings will not alter the AAVV's basic viewpoint. "Animals still should not be eaten, and meat is murder," she said.
The study results also shed new light on the reproductive process of cows, which had been shrouded in mystery since the animal was discovered 200 years ago.

"Cows reproduce much like the common pine tree," Holten said. "They develop a hard, bristly, fertilized cone, drop it on the ground and await the natural elements of wind, rain and animal life to carry it to open forest territory."

Overall reaction at the conference was muted at first, as many of the vegetarians expressed surprise, then glee, at the unexpected announcement. Some rushed madly to the trays of processed lunch meats lined up on buffet tables around the hall, knocking over bystanders and onlookers in a mad dash for freshly carved roast beef.

"It does not taste anything like meat," vegetarian Tina Mothersby said. "It's chewy like a boiled carrot or even like a nice chunk of sourdough bread."

Added Chalmers: "Cows are plants, and we feel pretty silly for avoiding them for as long as we have. Inside the stockyard warehouse near my Chicago home is not a meat locker, but a plant locker, and that fetid stench is not one of cow heads festering in a maggot-covered pile, but rather of ripe vegetables ready to be prepared in myriad delicious ways."

Due to the overwhelming acceptance on the part of the vegetarian crowd, the AAVV announced plans to move ahead with studies proving that the pig and duck are plants. Mutton, however, is still meat. — Janury 23, 1996

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NRA SHIFTS FOCUS FROM GUNS TO PENMANSHIP

MEMPHIS, TN — The nation's largest gun lobby announced Friday that it will no longer serve as a gun-rights champion and will focus instead on the battle for neater, more legible penmanship. Across the country, the National Rifle Association will sponsor Good Penmanship Workshops: men-only, military-style boot camps in which students who do not achieve a passing grade in basic penmanship will be shot. New NRA television commercials are already airing, featuring spokesman Charlton Heston, who says in his gravelly baritone, "There are those who would try to take away your right to good penmanship. Join me in telling them, 'Get your hands off me, you filthy apes!'" — September 5, 1995

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 30, 2002

    GREAT BOOK

    THE ONION is a great book and i would recommend it to everyone who has ever read THE ONION newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 19, 2001

    Mostly funny, but more like four and a half stars

    I liked most of the segments in this book, and can't wait for them to publish another volume, because only so much is kept on the website's archives, and I rarely get a chance to buy an actual paper. Probably will offend some,not for kids under 12, although you'd be suprised how many swear words and sexual terms are learned by that age.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2001

    Superbly Funny!

    Outstanding news reports with a cynical bite. It is always a delight to read. Keep it up, Onion! If like me, you revel in satire with pointed illustrations and would like to read a witty take on life in the high-tech industry workplace, then, Management by Vice, comes highly recommended.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2001

    Sweetness

    Good quality garbage. It's funnier than a circus monkey named Jojo dancing too the tune of carnival music.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 7, 2000

    I'm glad some people think it's filth!

    If 'a mother that cares' thinks that this is filth then the Onion is doing something right! Perhaps there should be a parody warning on it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 14, 2000

    Funny!

    The Onion is consistently one of the funniest humor journals around, and this book is proof of that. Its satire will clearly offend some (see puritan reviewer below), but if taken as it was meant to be, as humor, then you'll find a lot to enjoy in this book!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 15, 2000

    The Very Best in Parody!

    'The Onion' brings us the best parody on a weekly basis, and 'The Onion's Finest News Reporting' (intended for adult reading) encompasses the best-of-the-best from the warped minds of 'The Onion' staffers. A must read for any humor fans.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 14, 2000

    Filth

    I find it very offensive. For anyone to put down Christ and to say that CHILDREN said those horible things says alot about the downgrade of society in this day and time. How could anyone find humor in this garbage?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 11, 2000

    Hot Dog! It's about time for a new Onion book!

    If anything this is funnier than the last book as it collects the ridiculously hilarious stories from the weekly(?) paper.

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