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Americans too fat to commit suicide
Started by Guest_yoicks_*, Jun 12 2007 10:33 PM
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Posted 12 June 2007 - 10:33 PM
The article show the urgency for all Americans, especially weight-laden student-Americans, to monitor their diets.
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Posted 13 June 2007 - 04:49 AM
yoicks, on Jun 12 2007, 11:33 PM, said:
The article show the urgency for all Americans, especially weight-laden student-Americans, to monitor their diets.
Just so that the people reading this know, the article is from the Onion, a humor/spoof web site.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/study...cans_too_fat_to
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Posted 13 June 2007 - 10:41 AM
I really hope that yoicks knew that. I read that article, and its a hillarious read, but it is in no way factual. Though it wouldn't be the first time that an Onion article was mistaken for an article from a reputable newssource. A few years ago, Christian conservatives once cited an Onion article about Harry Potter as proof that the books were teaching witchcraft and satanic rituals.
It's much easier being politically incorrect.
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Posted 13 June 2007 - 10:45 AM
lol, yea... i was pretty sure it was a spoof when i reading it...heh... definitely the onions work... really funny though
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Posted 13 June 2007 - 12:35 PM
...and just to reinforce that it is from the Onion, I'm moving this thread to Humor and Entertainment.
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Posted 13 June 2007 - 01:24 PM
lol i had a feeling it was the onion and was surprised the topic creator did not mention anything about that.
my favorite part of it was "But the fact that obesity impedes suicide is truly troubling".
my favorite part of it was "But the fact that obesity impedes suicide is truly troubling".
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Posted 13 June 2007 - 06:31 PM
The title gave it to me. Who will take that title seriously? It's so blunt. It was a bit funny.Thanks yoicks
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Posted 13 June 2007 - 09:33 PM
That was really funny. For me this was the funniest part of the whole article:
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The report included detailed illustrations of extremely overweight people unable to bend over far enough to fit their heads into ovens, bobbing like corks while attempting to drown themselves, and becoming too winded scaling stairs to reach heights from which they could hurl their enormous bulk with fatal results.
The moment that a plurality of the people in this world succumb to ignorance, the end is near. - by me
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Posted 14 June 2007 - 03:50 PM
Ahh... Good ol'Onion. Too bad the newspaper boxes near Hunter is ALWAYS out of any copy of the Onion!
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