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“Look at them now,” an old man beside me kept saying. “Just look at them now.” —Philip Hamburger, reporting from the execution of Mussolini and his lieutenants, New Yorker, May 19, 1945

When I worked for The Onion, practically everyone who visited the office would ask how they could submit headlines. This one stoner delivery guy was so persistent, we finally told him he could submit 10 headlines on spec and we'd take a look. First one on his list was "Shit and poop are Stinky!!!"

Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social · 3d ago

if i wrote for the onion i'd write a headline that was like "Breaking News: The president is an orange!" and then you'd click it and the article would be like "An orange-haired no-good crook, that is!" that might seem a little mean-spirited but the way i see it, i'd get a click and you'd get a laugh

pretty meaningless gesture as most of us probably weren’t going to be drafted in the first round by the clippers between 2029 and 2033 anyway