r/lovethissmug • • 14d ago

miscellaneous I love funny The Onion article titles

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u/AwkwardLeopard587 14d ago

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u/Clanky72 14d ago

The font reminds me of evangelion episode title cards

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u/IM_KYLE_AMA 14d ago

Incredible

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u/illepic 8d ago

You can't make this headline today. Because of woke.

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u/ProfessionalSnow943 14d ago

calico critters irl

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u/ThatInAHat 14d ago

Wait kids died because of those??

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u/Tesnivy 14d ago

Looked it up, apparently there was a line of toys from 2020 that came with baby bottle and pacifier accessories that served as choking hazards and caused the deaths of two very young children and ended up causing a recall of millions of toys. Which is genuinely horribly tragic, but I’m also kinda baffled as to why one of those was ever given to a nine month old in the first place

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u/ProfessionalSnow943 14d ago

not just a recall, it fucked up how calico critters are gonna be in the US from now on and if you try and import the real things they can get straight up seized by customs lol

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u/WranglerFuzzy 13d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/105s2kxzOBOQH6
As a US citizen, I can buy a semi-automatic gun, but I can’t guy OG kinder eggs.

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u/Zephronias 14d ago

Me at any function.

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u/Cubbyhb1 14d ago

Oof, painful

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u/ClumsyFleshMannequin 14d ago

Now this is a mug I would rock

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u/AJohnson1337 14d ago

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u/scrawnytony2 14d ago

Listen ever since they started working on the streetcar it’s been running at Mach 3 around here

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u/Embarrassed_Deer9208 14d ago

and that streetcar's name? Desire

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u/lbutler1234 14d ago

There are definitely people out there who see Omaha as the big city.

Hell, they're might me a few who think that about grand island or Kearny.

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u/Turnepic13 14d ago

I thought they were referring to d day omaha

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u/lbutler1234 14d ago

Uhhh

That would've taken the joke in a whole other direction

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u/General_Elevator2711 14d ago edited 14d ago

Omaha is double the size of the biggest city in my province. Biggest city for a 6 hour drive in any direction. Omaha is absolutely massive in my mind

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u/Money_Lobster_997 14d ago

Bro lives nowhere

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u/Invictikus 14d ago

I remember going to Kearney for a school thing and going "that's it?"

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u/MJWhitfield86 14d ago

Saving Private Ryan did make it seem pretty hectic.

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u/Jaded_Eggplant_1190 11d ago

From Omaha. We would eat him alive.

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u/spiralsequences 14d ago

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u/spiralsequences 14d ago

And another fave

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u/Venti_the_snail 14d ago

How i felt watching Coyote vs ACME the literal day before my local theater closed down for renovations

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u/Beneficial_Winner_59 14d ago

Nah, fuck that bro. Do what makes you happy.

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u/Venti_the_snail 14d ago

I was happy until i got home and my asscheeks felt like i had a rash and took the hottest most sanitizing shower ive ever had then remembered that was probably why there was no one else in the theater and why they were doing renovations.

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u/kintsugi7krush 14d ago

And there's me, who loves going to the movies alone and does it every few months like a little self-care ritual

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u/spiralsequences 14d ago

I love it too, that's why this headline comes to mind often

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u/SatansCornflakes 14d ago

I have many favorite Onion headlines, but none of them can top this one.

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u/ThatInAHat 14d ago

That’s because he doesn’t bottom

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u/Drapabee 14d ago

My favorite as well thanks for saving me a post

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u/ThereWasADellHere 14d ago

It was short lived, but I really enjoyed The Onion As Videogame Taglines from [unspecified amount of years ago]

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u/moshpitpuppy 14d ago

it isn't the exaaaaaaact same, but check out hard drive. it's basically the onion for video games and it's a spin off of hard times, which is the onion for alt/punk/emo music lol

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u/Street-Mix-801 14d ago

Never heard about this, but it needs to be brought back

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u/CretaceousClock 14d ago

Clickhole has a lot of Gems too.

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u/SealedRoute 14d ago

Clickhole is funnier IMO.

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u/LilTaco21 14d ago

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u/General_Elevator2711 14d ago

The Onion has such good baseball articles

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u/Nikolai3035 9d ago

They're great because it's very evident that whoever writes them either actually understands and appreciates baseball or did enough research to make appropriate references

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u/DermicBuffalo20 14d ago

A favorite of mine

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u/I_Write_What_I_Think 14d ago

The guys and girls in our finance department have three screens each. Now that is serious.

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u/Jambopaul 14d ago

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u/No_Counter_6037 BILLIONS MUST LOVE 14d ago

wait i thought they only did satire

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u/Nemex2000 14d ago

The clip is amazing.

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u/BetterBagelBabe 14d ago

It pops in my head a couple times a year and always gives me a sensible chuckle.

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u/Bravo6342 14d ago

Gotta get up to get down

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u/MJWhitfield86 14d ago

Typical centrist fence sitting.

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u/Unstabler69 14d ago

My favorite is the "Shocking study finds 33% of pizzas never encounter unstoned person"

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u/TimonAndPumbaAreDead 14d ago

Dolphins evolve thumbs, "oh shit" says humanity

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u/cheeseburgerandfrie 14d ago

Critics warn gta VI could cause young impressionable teens to live in florida

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u/LurkerTroll 14d ago

My favorite

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u/mjfsuperstar92 14d ago

This was my first piece of media from The Onion, and it will always be my favorite

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u/Caselr 14d ago

“Drugs win drug war” is a classic

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u/raysofdavies 14d ago

This is my favorite Onion article, a true Shakespearean monologue

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u/mimipickmi 14d ago

“READING, PA—Saying the snot-nosed brat sure as hell better not expect any damn frankincense or myrrh, sources confirmed Friday that a bullshit newborn wasn’t even Jesus Christ, the Son of God. “There’s not a fucking chance this useless goddamn baby is going to die for our sins,” said the child’s uncle Brandon Lowrey, explaining that beyond being born in a hospital instead of a manger, the absolute disgrace of an infant wasn’t actually a boy at all, but in fact a girl. “I bet this little shit isn’t even related to God, let alone a direct relative. I should have known when I didn’t see a single Star of Bethlehem shining above that twerp to beckon wise men from the East. That dumbass baby couldn’t redeem a ham sandwich.” Lowrey added that the good-for-nothing child’s mother was no virgin either.”

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u/Street-Mix-801 14d ago

If he doesn’t even try to murder me, he’s not worth it 😤

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u/AGreatBannedName 14d ago

I have several of their compilation books that I probably bought back in the mid 2000s. The articles can be phenomenal, but as Shakespeare said, brevity is the soul of wit.

Maybe I’ll dig one out and take a photo or two to share.

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u/JMoney14 14d ago

"Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" and "Kitten Thinks Of Nothing But Murder All Day"

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u/greyfox104 13d ago

Definetly one of my faves if you remember him from the 2016 election Republican primary

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u/pppeater 14d ago

Area Pubes Shorn.

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u/RangerLiska 14d ago

Man I really empathize with article four. I used to be the only six in the office, a seven when my hair cooperated, and I was there with a bunch of fours.

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u/GrenHamblett 14d ago

They wrote a whole article about me ordering a cheeseburger?

Dang

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u/OkChampionship7764 12d ago

Clickhole is even better imo, and The Hard Times if you're into punk shit