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When reality reflects The Onion (redux)

beetsnotbeats
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) September 16, 2011 at 02:27 PM UTC #
Jersey Shore cast on the corporate welfare dole

?Jersey Shore? tax credit approved; NJ taxpayers angry they?re paying for Snooki, The Situation

The state Economic Development Authority has approved covering a $420,000 tax credit for production costs from the "Jersey Shore's" first season.

That means tax dollars will be used to offset the cost of all the club hopping, fist-pumping and fake tanning from the hit reality show's 2009 season.

The irony that New Jersey residents will be forced to foot the bill for a show that many view as an affront to the state's self-image is not lost on some.
beetsnotbeats
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 01, 2011 at 03:31 AM UTC #
A mobius strip of metasatire:

The Onion awakens a sleeping giant

And the most ridiculous part of this story?

[tt]The United States Capitol Police on Thursday said they were investigating The Onion, a satiric media organization, for making false reports on Twitter claiming that there was a hostage situation …[/tt]

A satiric media organization is being investigated for engaging in satire? It's straight out of The Onion.
sweetcell
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 03, 2011 at 05:24 PM UTC #
Cancer kills Nobel physician before hears of prize
A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer, but died of the disease just days before he could be told of the award.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/us-nobel-medicine-idUSTRE79213M20111003
Brian_Walalce
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 06, 2011 at 08:43 PM UTC #

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/tributes-pour-in-for-steve-jobs-20111006

Doesn't it seem that they put a couple gag ones in there to f with people?

Like:

Jared Leto: Maybe we can turn our phones + comps off at a certain time in honor of his contributions.

or

Neil Diamond: iSad.


Come on!  It's FUN!  Come up with your own fake celebrity Tweets about the death of Steve Jobs!

Tony Bennett:  We lost a super terrific cat who made the world groove to his music.  We'll miss you.  Wonderful.



Brian



i am gay and i like cats
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 06, 2011 at 09:25 PM UTC #
i wonder what brian tweets?
sweetcell
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 10, 2011 at 12:26 AM UTC #
Authorities: 2 women throw bleach on each other during fight at Walmart; hazmat team called

ARBUTUS, Md. ? Authorities in Maryland say two women threw bleach and another chemical on each other during a fight at a Walmart, prompting officials to evacuate the store for two hours and call in a hazardous materials team.

Fire officials say 19 people had to be taken to hospitals, although only one was thought to have serious injuries. That person was taken to the Wilmer Eye Institute with a potentially serious eye injury.

Fire officials were called to the store in the Baltimore suburb of Arbutus shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday.

Fire Department spokesman Glenn Blackwell says one person was arrested and charges are pending.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/authorities-2-women-throw-bleach-on-each-other-during-fight-at-walmart-hazmat-team-called/2011/10/08/gIQAPhSkVL_story.html
beetsnotbeats
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 14, 2011 at 02:38 AM UTC #
Moviegoer sues: Not enough driving in 'Drive'

The suit alleges that the company "promoted the film ?Drive? as very similar to the ?Fast and Furious,? or similar, series of movies." But, Sarah was sad to learn, "?Drive? bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film? having very little driving in the motion picture."
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 14, 2011 at 01:13 PM UTC #
Brian_Wallace wrote:
Tony Bennett:  We lost a super terrific cat who made the world groove to his music.  We'll miss you.  Wonderful.


this is very funny.

grateful
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 14, 2011 at 08:37 PM UTC #
Fred Durst Signs On to 'Douchebag' Sitcom, Seriously
vansmack
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 17, 2011 at 05:02 PM UTC #
There are some sick people out there.

Honestly, I'm still haunted by the scene of Kermit going down on Fozzie in that Kermit version of "Hurt," so much so that had they replaced the Sesame Street videos with Muppet Porn, the therapy bills would be through the roof!

Sesame Street's YouTube channel hacked, replaced with porn

Sesame Street had its YouTube channel hacked on Sunday, and its highly popular child-friendly videos of muppets like Kermit the frog and the Big Bird replaced with something far less savoury: Hard core porn movies.

What would Bert and Ernie say? The truth of the matter is that the channel is regularly visited by young children, and parents trust that the page will be safe for them to view.

The NSFW content was available for all the world to see for approximately 20 minutes, before the channel was suspended for "repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines."

You have to wonder what was going through the mind of whoever hacked Sesame Street's YouTube page.

Aside from uploading pornographic videos, the hackers also changed the Sesame Street's channel profile on YouTube:

WHO DOESN'T LOVE PORN KIDS? RIGHT! EVERYONE LOVES IT! IM MREDXWX AND MY PARTNER MRSUICIDER91 ARE HERE TO BRING YOU MANY NICE CONTENT! PLEASE DON'T LET SESAME STREET TO GET THIS ACCOUNT BACK KIDS :( PLEASE…LET ME AND MRSUICIDER91 HAVE IT AND WE GONNA MAKE ALL THE AMERICA HAPPY!

Now, if it really was YouTube user "MrEdxwx" who hacked the Sesame Street account you would have to suggest he go back to his first day at school, because it would be remarkably silly to leave a message telling the world that he was the perpetrator.

"MrEdxwx" is clearly feeling the heat, however, as he has decided to upload a video denying any involvement in the hack.

Precisely how Sesame Street's YouTube channel got hacked is presently a mystery - but it's natural to assume that they were sloppy with their password security.
beetsnotbeats
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 20, 2011 at 08:10 PM UTC #
This one has to have the staff of The Onion feeling outright pwned right now:

MC Hammer launching his own search engine

(CNN) – You can't Google this.

OK, maybe you can. But MC Hammer doesn't want you to.

The venerable rapper, who helped usher hip-hop into the pop mainstream in the early '90s, has rolled out a search engine he hopes will outperform Google, Bing and other established tools.

The project, called WireDoo, has been two years in the making, said Hammer (real name Stanley Burrell) Wednesday at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco.

At the conference, he said what will make his search tool better than Google (or, too legit to quit, if you will) will be its "deep search" ability.

"It's about relationships beyond just the keywords," he said, according to Mashable, a CNN.com content partner.

The rapper-turned-entrepreneur (after some late-90s difficulties) said a search would render not just direct results, but also information on possibly related topics. Its tagline is: "Search once and see what's related."

Other details about the product were scarce.

WireDoo, which Hammer said he has a team developing, is still in pre-beta. Its website is currently letting people sign up to test the search engine when a beta release is ready.
beetsnotbeats
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 21, 2011 at 11:53 PM UTC #


C'mon! Click on it….
James Ford
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 22, 2011 at 02:14 AM UTC #
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jaguar
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM UTC #
Worst California biker feud in decade erupted at Starbucks

This is the best part:

""It was all about who would be allowed to hang out at the Starbucks downtown," Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said."

… and…

""He added: "Only in Santa Cruz would you have biker wars over who's going to control pumpkin spice lattes.""



This begs the question, will the next Starbucks CD feature the song 'Born To Be Wild'?




Biker Cat says, "Make mine a pumpkin spice latte."
sweetcell
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) October 26, 2011 at 10:59 PM UTC #
i heard this during my morning commute:

"ARI SHAPIRO, host: Good morning. I'm Ari Shapiro. An unnamed actress is suing Amazon.com for more than a million dollars. The alleged offense? Revealing her age. Amazon owns the Internet Movie Database, or IMDB. That's the website that posted the offending number. The lawsuit says the actress is many years older than she looks, and her lawyers say it will hurt her career if she is, quote, "perceived to be over the hill" - i.e., approaching 40. It's MORNING EDITION."

more details:
Actress sues Amazon for revealing her age on IMDb
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/18/ap/tech/main20121919.shtml
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