The staff of The Onion presents a satirical collection of mock headlines and news stories, including an account of the Pentagon's development of an A-bomb-resistant desk for schoolchildren.
Author: Scott Dikkers
Publisher: Crown Pub
ISBN: 0307393577
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Definitely not for the easily offended, Our Dumb Century was a New York Times #1 bestseller chronicling 100 years of American history with dry humor and cynicism.
Author: Scott Dikkers
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
ISBN: 9780762418664
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Presents a collection of satirical news stories from the humor magazine and its Website, including such events as "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia," "Civil War Enthusiasts Burn Atlanta to the Ground," and "Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes"
Author: Scott Dikkers
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780609804636
Page: 165
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... useful to our forefathers when wigs were fashionable . The whitest were made
of the hair of the common domestic goat . A good Welsh skin in the last century
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Author: Amie Barrodale
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
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In the first half of 1999 , Onion , Inc. released its first book , Our Dumb Century :
The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest New Source .
The book , published by Crown Books , contained headlines created by nine ...
Author: Jay P. Pederson
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN: 9781558625440
Page: 648
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But it was the April Fools ' Day 1999 release of “ Our Dumb Century : 100 Years
of Headlines from America's Finest News Source " that brought fame and , at
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The Mix cue Edited by Boris Kachka Radio Highlights In Print Our Dumb Century
my little blue dress " Live From Grand Central " Host Ira Kleinman interviews the
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Both DJ and I had been at the Onion but left before they got their book deal to do
Our Dumb Century . DJ had a couple of ... In my opinion , I thought Our Dumb
Century was the best humor book of its type that I had ever seen . I lamented that
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sensibility on 100 years of Web fans , The of American history . Onion ( www
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Author: Robert Siegel
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A collection of front page news stories from The Onion, a satirical magazine from America. Contains entirely original material in the same vein as: Drugs Win Drugs War and Martin Luther King: I Had A Really Weird Dream Last Night.
Author: Robert Siegel
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN: 9780752220116
Page: 174
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The paper's best articles have been collected in several books , and a mock
anthology of the most important news events of the twentieth century appeared in
Our Dumb Century ( 1999 ) . In 1996 , The Onion went online , and its readership
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Our youngest son ' s snickering blossoms and laughter cascades over the
caption below the fold : “ We Thought It ... faux centennial edition of The Onion :
Our Dumb Century , a sly , satirical publication that emerged from the primordial
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