When reality reflects The Onion (redux)

jrpa

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) April 30, 2015 at 08:05 PM UTC #

Russian politician fears Apple?s free U2 album will make you gay

jrpa

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) April 30, 2015 at 08:06 PM UTC #

Mayweather will bail out Suge Knight to celebrate if he beats Pacquaio

ggw

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) April 30, 2015 at 08:38 PM UTC #

vansmack wrote:
The Gold Apple Watch costs $10,000 upwards....

and doesn't work if you have tattoos

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) May 04, 2015 at 12:32 AM UTC #

Texas Governor Deploys State Guard To Stave Off Obama Takeover

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) May 04, 2015 at 03:45 PM UTC #

Drama on the Court: Police are called to the rescue of man stuck in basketball hoop:

http://wric.com/2015/05/04/hammer-wielding-man-found-stuck-in-basketball-hoop-in-washington/

Sidehatch

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) May 04, 2015 at 03:59 PM UTC #

betao wrote:
Drama on the Court: Police are called to the rescue of man stuck in basketball hoop:

http://wric.com/2015/05/04/hammer-wielding-man-found-stuck-in-basketball-hoop-in-washington/

The SPD tweet on this is priceless

Seattle Police Dept.
✔ ‎@SeattlePD
Shirtless man removed from Cal Anderson basketball hoop. He may be arrested for property destruction, or at least goal-tending.

beetsnotbeats

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) May 06, 2015 at 02:25 AM UTC #

School That Teaches Abstinence Education Experiences Chlamydia Outbreak

A small high school in Texas is currently grappling with an STD outbreak, as 20 cases of chlamydia have been confirmed among the student population. Since Crane High School only has about 300 students, that means about one in 15 kids there has been infected.

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) May 06, 2015 at 03:03 AM UTC #

'The Price Is Right' Awarded a Treadmill to Contestant in a Wheelchair
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/05/the-price-is-right-awarded-treadmill-to-contestant-in-wheelchair

check out what her job is, too…

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) May 10, 2015 at 09:17 PM UTC #

Are ?Crying Rooms? a luxury of the future?

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) May 14, 2015 at 05:39 PM UTC #

As women take majority on Austin City Council, staff warned to expect more questions, longer talks

Austin Government Paid a Man to tell Workers how to deal with Women Leaders

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) May 15, 2015 at 03:33 PM UTC #

The Edge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rta9CHp7bEE#action=share

Sidehatch

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) May 15, 2015 at 03:58 PM UTC #

^the Edge can't find the edge
that made me laugh out loud

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) June 01, 2015 at 02:36 PM UTC #

Indicted ex-FIFA official Jack Warner cites 'Onion' article to defend himself
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/01/football/fifa-corruption-warner-onion/index.html

(this article http://www.theonion.com/article/fifa-frantically-announces-2015-summer-world-cup-u-50525 )

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) June 01, 2015 at 03:01 PM UTC #

wait isn't that reality reflecting the onion reflecting reality in the onion
I'm soo confused

DeathFromAbove1979

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) June 01, 2015 at 03:11 PM UTC #

META!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jrpa

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) June 01, 2015 at 03:18 PM UTC #

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
META!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It actually is quite META. Good call.

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) June 02, 2015 at 06:09 PM UTC #

Little Wayne plays in a charity basketball game to raise money/awareness of non-violence, gets into physical altercation with referee

DeathFromAbove1979

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) June 02, 2015 at 07:22 PM UTC #

Haha!!

beetsnotbeats

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) June 03, 2015 at 02:17 PM UTC #

And not Florida Man:

Man ran fake DUI checkpoint while drunk

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) June 06, 2015 at 02:09 PM UTC #

Man Calls 911 To Resolve 3-Hour Standoff With Angry House Cat