Vol 47: Issue 49 Archives - The Onion https://theonion.com/tag/vol-47-issue-49/ America’s Finest News Source Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:22:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://theonion.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-site-icon.png?w=32 Vol 47: Issue 49 Archives - The Onion https://theonion.com/tag/vol-47-issue-49/ 32 32 234789167 The Week In Pictures https://theonion.com/the-week-in-pictures-1819580665/ https://theonion.com/the-week-in-pictures-1819580665/#respond Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0000 The post The Week In Pictures appeared first on The Onion.

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Report: Global Warming May Be Irreversible By 2006
Report: Global Warming May Be Irreversible By 2006
Chinese Paint Tops List Of This Year’s Must-Have Holiday Gifts
Chinese Paint Tops List Of This Year’s Must-Have Holiday Gifts
Excited Mike Krzyzewski: Duke Squad Hasn’t Been This Unlikable In Years
Excited Mike Krzyzewski: Duke Squad Hasn’t Been This Unlikable In Years
Year In Review: Renewable Energy Source Encoded In Charlie Sheen’s Rants
Year In Review: Renewable Energy Source Encoded In Charlie Sheen’s Rants
Secretary Of Agriculture Attends Diplomatic Meeting With Foreign Cabbage
Secretary Of Agriculture Attends Diplomatic Meeting With Foreign Cabbage
Least Corrupt Politician In Illinois History Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison
Least Corrupt Politician In Illinois History Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison
Study Finds Getting Smacked Right In The Mouth With A Goddamn Tree Branch Really Sucks
Study Finds Getting Smacked Right In The Mouth With A Goddamn Tree Branch Really Sucks
Tom Brady Autobiography Highlights The Highs And Highs Of Being Tom Brady
Tom Brady Autobiography Highlights The Highs And Highs Of Being Tom Brady
Shitty Graffiti Artist Captures 19-Year-Old Girl’s Heart
Shitty Graffiti Artist Captures 19-Year-Old Girl’s Heart
Burglar Makes Sure To Crack Glass On Family Portrait
Burglar Makes Sure To Crack Glass On Family Portrait
Equestrian Instinctively Feels Deep, Meaningless Connection With Horse
Equestrian Instinctively Feels Deep, Meaningless Connection With Horse

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Nancy Grace's Kidnap Countdown https://theonion.com/nancy-graces-kidnap-countdown-1819585646/ https://theonion.com/nancy-graces-kidnap-countdown-1819585646/#respond Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0000 Headline

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Headline

9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST

Nancy recounts her favorite kidnappings from 2011.

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Equestrian Instinctively Feels Deep, Meaningless Connection With Horse https://theonion.com/equestrian-instinctively-feels-deep-meaningless-connec-1819590538/ https://theonion.com/equestrian-instinctively-feels-deep-meaningless-connec-1819590538/#respond Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:25:00 +0000 The post Equestrian Instinctively Feels Deep, Meaningless Connection With Horse appeared first on The Onion.

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Donut Shop Gets Weird After 11 A.M. https://theonion.com/donut-shop-gets-weird-after-11-a-m-1819573162/ https://theonion.com/donut-shop-gets-weird-after-11-a-m-1819573162/#respond Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:45:00 +0000 CHICAGO—According to unnerved sources, the donut shop at the corner of Belmont Avenue and Clark Street gets really weird after 11 a.m. "Up until about 10, it’s totally normal, but sometime after that, you start seeing more and more people with gauze taped over one eye, and there generally seems to be a lot more canes—sometimes just leaning up against tables or hanging off the backs of empty chairs without it really being clear who owns them," retail associate Jake Kleibesadel told reporters Thursday, explaining he occasionally stops into the establishment for a quick snack during work breaks. "Usually at least two people will just be staring at their cups of coffee without drinking them, and a lot of times you’ll see a guy watching one of those weird portable DVD players without bothering to use headphones. After a certain point, it just starts feeling really tense and sort of creepy in there." The donut shop reportedly gets weirder and weirder until reaching an apex at 6 a.m., after which it reverts back to its normal clientele of numbed, defeated people lurching to work.

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CHICAGO—According to unnerved sources, the donut shop at the corner of Belmont Avenue and Clark Street gets really weird after 11 a.m. “Up until about 10, it’s totally normal, but sometime after that, you start seeing more and more people with gauze taped over one eye, and there generally seems to be a lot more canes—sometimes just leaning up against tables or hanging off the backs of empty chairs without it really being clear who owns them,” retail associate Jake Kleibesadel told reporters Thursday, explaining he occasionally stops into the establishment for a quick snack during work breaks. “Usually at least two people will just be staring at their cups of coffee without drinking them, and a lot of times you’ll see a guy watching one of those weird portable DVD players without bothering to use headphones. After a certain point, it just starts feeling really tense and sort of creepy in there.” The donut shop reportedly gets weirder and weirder until reaching an apex at 6 a.m., after which it reverts back to its normal clientele of numbed, defeated people lurching to work.

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Burglar Makes Sure To Crack Glass On Family Portrait https://theonion.com/burglar-makes-sure-to-crack-glass-on-family-portrait-1819590533/ https://theonion.com/burglar-makes-sure-to-crack-glass-on-family-portrait-1819590533/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:00:00 +0000 The post Burglar Makes Sure To Crack Glass On Family Portrait appeared first on The Onion.

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Coach Secretly Turned On By Illegal Formation https://theonion.com/coach-secretly-turned-on-by-illegal-formation-1819573172/ https://theonion.com/coach-secretly-turned-on-by-illegal-formation-1819573172/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:00:00 +0000 TAMPA, FL—Buccaneers quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt admitted to reporters Saturday that even though he knows it’s wrong and “very, very naughty,” he secretly gets aroused when he sees a team line up in an illegal formation. “Mmm, look at this wideout, look at him failing to cover that tackle, oh, that’s so bad,” said Van Pelt, licking his lips as he ran tape of the same penalty forward and backward multiple times. “You throw that flag, ref. You know it’s wrong. That’s only six men on the line of scrimmage, and that ref doesn’t like it. No, not one bit. But you know who does like it? Alex likes it. Yeah. Yeah, Alex knows that tackle failed to report as an eligible receiver. Mmmm.” After Van Pelt spent several more minutes dissecting one illegal formation penalty from a preseason game against the Dolphins, reporters asked him what he thought of illegal shifts, which prompted the coach to release a pleasurable moan and excuse himself from the film room.

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TAMPA, FL—Buccaneers quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt admitted to reporters Saturday that even though he knows it’s wrong and “very, very naughty,” he secretly gets aroused when he sees a team line up in an illegal formation. “Mmm, look at this wideout, look at him failing to cover that tackle, oh, that’s so bad,” said Van Pelt, licking his lips as he ran tape of the same penalty forward and backward multiple times. “You throw that flag, ref. You know it’s wrong. That’s only six men on the line of scrimmage, and that ref doesn’t like it. No, not one bit. But you know who does like it? Alex likes it. Yeah. Yeah, Alex knows that tackle failed to report as an eligible receiver. Mmmm.” After Van Pelt spent several more minutes dissecting one illegal formation penalty from a preseason game against the Dolphins, reporters asked him what he thought of illegal shifts, which prompted the coach to release a pleasurable moan and excuse himself from the film room.

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On The National Championship Game Rematch https://theonion.com/on-the-national-championship-game-rematch-1819561050/ https://theonion.com/on-the-national-championship-game-rematch-1819561050/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:30:00 +0000 “The BCS is just another example of why we shouldn’t let anyone vote for anything in this country.” “As the top seed, LSU should have the right to pick an opponent it already knows it will beat.” “They need to fix the BCS, and the only way to do that is to have three teams […]

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“The BCS is just another example of why we shouldn’t let anyone vote for anything in this country.”

“As the top seed, LSU should have the right to pick an opponent it already knows it will beat.”

“They need to fix the BCS, and the only way to do that is to have three teams play in the title game at the same time.”

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Who Is Romney Today? https://theonion.com/who-is-romney-today-1819590564/ https://theonion.com/who-is-romney-today-1819590564/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:00:00 +0000 Critics have long complained that instead of sticking to strong positions on issues such as immigration, federal spending, and health care reform, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has routinely changed his stance to appeal to voters. Here are some key policies on which he has flip-flopped:

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Critics have long complained that instead of sticking to strong positions on issues such as immigration, federal spending, and health care reform, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has routinely changed his stance to appeal to voters. Here are some key policies on which he has flip-flopped:

In 1998 Romney said he’d been married to his wife for 29 years, but in a speech just last week he claimed it’s been 42 years

Though he now argues his views have been consistent, in 2002 he stated, “I do admit I like to flip-flop, I just love flip-flopping so much!”

Said he didn’t like eggs but then turned right around and ate half a quiche

Has made repeated claims on the campaign trail that he is the anti-Romney

Backtracked from his assertion as Massachusetts governor that poor people were human beings with emotions and feelings

Stated that he was a die-hard Dockers-Classic-fit-pleated man and was later spotted on the campaign trail in Dockers flat-front straight-fits

Has been known to tan on one side of his body for a while, then completely turn over and let his other side face the sun

During the 2008 primaries, he leveled repeated attacks against Sen. John McCain. This year, he has been almost completely silent on McCain

Renounced his front-runner status in the current presidential campaign to focus on becoming an also-ran

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BCS National Championship Game https://theonion.com/bcs-national-championship-game-1819590527/ https://theonion.com/bcs-national-championship-game-1819590527/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:00:00 +0000 Alabama gets a mulligan and a chance to lose to LSU for the second time this year in a championship game that doubles as proof the BCS is a complete mess.

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Alabama gets a mulligan and a chance to lose to LSU for the second time this year in a championship game that doubles as proof the BCS is a complete mess.

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Shitty Graffiti Artist Captures 19-Year-Old Girl's Heart https://theonion.com/shitty-graffiti-artist-captures-19-year-old-girls-heart-1819573158/ https://theonion.com/shitty-graffiti-artist-captures-19-year-old-girls-heart-1819573158/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:45:00 +0000 ’He’s Also A Terrible DJ!’ Teen Squeals

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’He’s Also A Terrible DJ!’ Teen Squeals

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CLAREMONT, CA—From the moment she first laid eyes on his clumsy, haphazardly sprayed graffiti tag, Pomona College sophomore Jessica Tisselo has been completely enamored with 24-year-old shitty street artist Adam Zane, the love-struck Tisselo told reporters Thursday.

“Adam is so hot,” gushed Tisselo, 19, who six months ago would never have imagined she’d be dating an avid graffiti painter with absolutely no grasp of light or perspective. “Everything about his art is just so fascinating—from his sloppy stencil work, to his total lack of compositional understanding, to the places where he paints, which are completely obscured from view because he’s a huge coward and is terrified of getting caught.”

“And if that weren’t sexy enough, he’s also probably one of the worst DJs I’ve heard in my life,” she continued. “I’ve never been so in love!”

According to sources, Tisselo met Zane—who goes by the graffiti handle Slyce—last summer when friends took her to an annoyingly self-aware dive bar that the terrible street artist frequents. Tisselo quickly found herself drawn to Zane’s sleeve tattoos of clichéd geishas, koi, and other trite Japanese imagery, as well as his unnecessarily overstretched earlobes, prompting her to strike up a conversation.

After Zane spoke at length about the overpriced street-fashion clothing line his friend and fellow shitty graffiti artist Acid Flexx had started, he reportedly walked the enraptured Tisselo to a nearby disgusting alleyway to see some of his work, which included several pathetic attempts at a shadowed version of his tag, and what Tisselo described as “something that probably started out as a boom box, but became a crappy-looking UFO.”

However, it wasn’t until he invited her to come watch him do a painfully long and boring DJ set the following week at a party in an abandoned warehouse that Tisselo knew she and Zane were meant for each other.

“It was magical; every song he played was worse than the one that came before it,” she said, recalling how turned on she was that anyone would have paid to subject themselves to such an excruciating performance by a person calling himself DJ KillCandy. “Just seeing him up there wearing a winter hat in the middle of July with one earphone stupidly draped over his ear, I could totally feel myself falling for him.”

“Later that night he showed me these embarrassingly lame break-dancing moves,” she continued. “That was when I knew I was in love.”

In addition to being bowled over by his lack of talent as a graffiti artist and DJ, Tisselo said she was also smitten by how spectacularly bad Zane’s photography was.

“For my birthday this year, Adam framed one of his black-and-white shots of a dirty supermarket loading dock, which was so sweet, because I could just imagine all the asinine thoughts going through his head while he was taking it,” said Tisselo, noting that Zane probably thought his image of a tipped-over garbage can was unique and brilliant. “Any retarded hack with a $10 disposable camera could have taken that photo, and I’m going to cherish the cheap, thoughtless, and incredibly self-involved gift for the rest of my life.”

Recently the relationship has become serious enough for Tisselo to bring Zane home to meet her parents, whose opinion of the unemployed 24-year-old, while extremely low to begin with, reportedly continues to decline.

“We were all sitting around the dinner table the other night, and apropos of nothing, Adam launched into a story about how he and some of his shitty artist friends went sticker-bombing on some city buses,” a blushing and smiling Tisselo said. “From the looks on their faces I could tell my mom and dad thought he was a huge idiot, and I have to agree, they are 100 percent right.”

“I think we’re going to get married someday,” she added.

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The Rachel Maddow Show https://theonion.com/the-rachel-maddow-show-1819585651/ https://theonion.com/the-rachel-maddow-show-1819585651/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 MSNBC

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MSNBC

9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST

Rachel Maddow once again proves she’s the only lesbian TV host who knows a damn thing about deficit reduction, Ellen.

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