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Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
Our Dumb Century The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
Author: The Onion, Scott Dikkers, Mike Loew
ISBN-13: 9780609804612
ISBN-10: 0609804618
Publication Date: 3/23/1999
Pages: 176
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 26 ratings
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3
Offensive, intelligent, hugely hilarious parodies of news reporting.
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Helpful Score: 2
wacky headlines!
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Helpful Score: 2
This issue of The Onion is the perfect starting point for new fans....it chronicals over 200 years of news as seen through the funniest writers......while other Onion books cover parodies of current events, this collection begin at the founding of our nation and ends in the mid 80-90's............funny, although it does have crude/offensive humor & language in parts.....history majors/buffs will love it! My favorite headlines..."O.J. Finds Real Killer" complete with a photoshopped pic of OJ leading a biker type guy in handcuffs up the courthouse steps. A great article on the JFK shooting manages to combine almost every conspirarcy theory. While not every article is a home run, there are so many jokes per page, something will make you laugh...also a lot of attention was paid so that the historical parodies match the type/style/language of the time period covered.
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Helpful Score: 1
I received this book for my son who loves to read, he told me that he really enjoy reading this book, and is still reading it, and that it had many interesting topics in the book, this book is definately for anyone who loves to read about ODD things, Debbie