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Fox may be satire. It definitely proves there's alotta people out there who don't know bullshit when they are fed it.

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Superman.

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Well sure - there's the fun bits.

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In the filing The Onion declared itself “the world’s leading news publication,” with a “daily readership of 4.3 trillion” that has “grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history."

I didn't check it out, but all that sounds right to me.

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My wife works as a paralegal at a large law firm in a big city. I've seen any number of briefs she's worked on and none of them had a patch on the Onion's for sheer readability and gut busting funny stuff. It's a piece of art.

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And I'm not a lawyer!

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There's an area of Calgary called Rocky Ridge (a subdivision) and every goddamn street has "Rocky Ridge" in its name: RR Place, RR Mews, RR Close, RR Avenue, RR Lane. It's like a freaking Kafka-esque actual nightmare of beige one-car garage-filled cul-de-sacs.

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What a nightmare!

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I like Turtles! (Canadian TV commercial, circa 1980)https://youtu.be/X4IyoI77j1Q

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Say, you know who else banned jokes about him and his political party?

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Tuber, or not tuber....

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I don't carrot all.

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Who knew that truth and justice were extreme?

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Dog, I hate this guy. Why is he still here?

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I just read the brief in its entirety, and it's the perfect blend of absurdity and scholarship that I have not seen since the Doug Kenney years of the National Lampoon.What I mean is, it's really, really good.

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What does this mean?

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