THE ONION PURCHASED BY CHINESE!!!!

Outstanding! Thanks, D!

"Internet Adds 12th Website"

That's when I lost it. Hilariousness.

Fliggen laciest!

If we're lucky the Chinese will censor the entire paper.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/police_still_searching_for?utm_source=a-section

killed me. Killed me!

Yeah! More coverage of ping-pong and women's gymnastics.

I am looking forward to the many articles and much information about fish recipes!

Hilarious.

I liked the bit about dangerous Taiwanese-made toys.

I like the examples of American Weakness, specifically this one:

Applebee's

lol

"As you know, the American newspaper and print industry has been in great, great decline," Joe Randazzo, the paper's editor, tells Robert Siegel.
...
Randazzo goes on to say that Yu Wan Mei's intentions are pure.

"The Onion has always been a one-way conduit for information," he says. "We disdain our readers. ..."

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106894674

OTOH, I'm always interested in women's gymnastics.

Hahaha. Nice This is hilarious.

Thank God Chinese people have a terrible sense of satire, otherwise this thing'd be blocked in a second over here.

And what the eff does "Fish Perfect" mean? (The Chinese words in red along the top.) Am I missing something?

ETA: And the main article about the child learning the alphabet is seriously, seriously funny. 'Cause Chinese people (especially cab drivers, for some reason) are ALL THE TIME rambling at me about how ridiculously easy English is to learn -- in Chinese, because they can't speak English. It's just... yeah. China.

ETAA: Nevermind. Fish Perfect is the name of the company that bought the site. Silly moi

Well I'm glad Absolute Write's on the list, otherwise I'd be purty lonely over here.

Must replace my "Area Woman" t-shirt with a "Whimpering clod who has the temerity to call myself a 'reader'". God bless La Cebolla, or however you say that in Cantonese.

btw, my personal favorite.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/mexico_builds_border_wall_to_keep

not_HarryS said:

Well I'm glad Absolute Write's on the list, otherwise I'd be purty lonely over here.

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if only projectrungay were on the list too. I need gay bloggers I've never met to tell me what to think about my favorite show!!!!!

I must find a way to rappel this great firewall

not_HarryS said:

Thank God Chinese people have a terrible sense of satire, otherwise this thing'd be blocked in a second over here.

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A Chinese newspaper, The Beijing Evening News (a big one too, readership of over a million) once published a story taken from the Onion about Congress threatening to leave DC unless a new capitol was built with a retractable zone. New sites considered were North Carolina, Texas and Canada. Of course, the article was making fun of US sports franchises.

Evening News stood by the story, demanding proof of its falsehood. It later retracted the article, responding that "some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them with the aim of making money."

Lol, in my book, that is not a very good retraction. They don't have their facts straight about the Onion.

Kurtz said:

A Chinese newspaper, The Beijing Evening News (a big one too, readership of over a million) once published a story taken from the Onion about Congress threatening to leave DC unless a new capitol was built with a retractable zone. New sites considered were North Carolina, Texas and Canada. Of course, the article was making fun of US sports franchises.

Evening News stood by the story, demanding proof of its falsehood. It later retracted the article, responding that "some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them with the aim of making money."

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Yeah, in China, accountability when it comes to recognizing a mistake (or in this instance, admitting that you're stealing from other venues) is a pretty rate thing.

I busted a funny bone.