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<a href="http://www.onoin.com">What's The Bunion?</a> It's a parody of <a href=http://www.theonion.com>The Onion</a>. That's right, a parody of a parody. Sheesh! Funny, though.post:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.3468Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:18:39 -0800miamirelativetheonionthebunionsatireparodyhumorbrokenlinkBy: waxpancake
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Depends on your sense of humor, I suppose. It seemed pretty stupid and unoriginal to me. (Except for maybe the "Area Man Joke Gone Too Far" headline. The Onion does seem to use that term in every issue.)comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.3468-21637Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:31:28 -0800waxpancakeBy: highindustrial
http://www.metafilter.com/3468/Whats-The-Bunion#21641
Rule of thumb: a parody should be smarter than the object of its ridicule. A dumb parody is a wretched creature indeed. The Bunion is a dumb parody. Now, The Onion probably *is* ripe for some sort of skewering, but that would require research and planning, not lazy semantic tomfoolery. Or does mocking up someone else's layout constitute a parody on its own terms? The question of the hour, perhaps one for the ages.comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.3468-21641Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:57:39 -0800highindustrialBy: holloway
http://www.metafilter.com/3468/Whats-The-Bunion#21645
What? No <a href="http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~mmakin/kornfeld/">Herbert Kornfeld</a>...mayhaps as Hitler? Eminen?
bah humbug.
"Wacky Pop Culture Reference Made in Reference to Above Photo"
"body part was <i>this</i> big"
"Look at my t-shirt. It's Heracles vs Epiphanes. F--king brilliant"
"Black man dares to open mouth about X"
"Janet Reno explains surgery hiccup X"
"Area man taunts police to handcuff him after 'pooping' in town water supply"
(yes, I know. That's the point.)comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.3468-21645Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:58:52 -0800hollowayBy: davidgentle
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I think the point is to attack the formulas that the onion uses. Parody and satire don't have to be funnier than the original but they do have to make a point about it. I think that the bunion does.comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.3468-21648Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:15:34 -0800davidgentleBy: holgate
http://www.metafilter.com/3468/Whats-The-Bunion#21649
They should have got <a href="http://www.suck.com/features/salmon/">Greg</a> <a href="http://www.suck.com/daily/99/12/13/">Knauss</a> to do it.comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.3468-21649Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:38:48 -0800holgateBy: skallas
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Once they parodied the typical "Take a mundane midwestern/office/suburban event and make it a news story," it all went down hill from there. That's mostly what the onion does, and if you try hard not to remember the formula it makes for <a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3627/stoner_architect.html">hilarious weekly reading. </a> comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.3468-21665Sat, 30 Sep 2000 02:26:32 -0800skallasBy: wendell
http://www.metafilter.com/3468/Whats-The-Bunion#21673
Been there.
<a href="http://www.oneswellfoop.com/newsleek/leek001.html">Done that.</a>
Got bored.
Moved on.
Didn't beat it to death. (Maybe THAT was my mistake.)comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.3468-21673Sat, 30 Sep 2000 08:08:53 -0800wendell
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