Our Dumb Century : The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headdlines from America's Finest News Source

by Onion Staff (COR); Dikkers, Scott
ISBN: 9780609804612
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  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Onion Staff (COR); Dikkers, Scott
  • ISBN: 9780609804612
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 0.50 x 10.75
  • Publication Year: 1999

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  • The Alternate History of the World by the Onion...

    Bryan D. - 7 years 8 months ago

    Back in 1999, the staff of The Onion, Wisconsin's number one satirical free weekly and burgeoning Internet sensation, released their first book. Unlike much of what they have published since, this one was not a simple reprint of their online pieces. Instead, it featured all-new material: Fake historical newspaper front-pages, approximately one for every year, all the way back to 1900, complete with different "Onion" logo designs for different periods of the Twentieth Century, different typefaces, different print-qualities. It even featured the supposed first Benjamin Franklin-style issue of the Onion from the 1700s, "The Mercantile-Onion," so named because those were the only English words the publisher had learned! As usual with the Onion, the stories are either funny because they're such a cock-eyed take on real events (The discovery of dinosaur fossils in the American Southwest early in the 20th Century prompts the editorial question "Were Indians in cahoots with demons?") or because they're such humorous twists or exaggerations of reality ("NIXON ESCAPES!"). There is not exactly a through-line of the pieces that bend into pure fantasy... At the end of the Vietnam War, Gerald Ford begs Americans to accept our new North Vietnamese overlords, who are never mentioned again. And yet it does read, to me, like an alternate history: It's SO thorough, SO extensive, and so ABSORBING I get sucked back in every time I pick it up. And speaking of, it's been far too long...

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