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 Archetype
ISBN: 9780307393579
Category: Humor
Page: 164
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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.In April 1999, The Onion will publish Our Dumb Century: 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source, the book on which this calendar is based. Shrink-wrapped. Boxed.
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The Onion created an international following when it hit the Web in 1996, attracting millions of online readers with irreverent made-up stories that sound fairly close to real. In April 1999, The Onion will publish Our Dumb Century: 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source, the book on which this calendar is based. Shrink-wrapped. Boxed.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: 0762418664
Category: Humor
Page: 192
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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. This Miniature Edition™ distills the brilliant wit and satire of the original from "America's Finest News Source."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: 0609804634
Category: Humor
Page: 165
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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"95 ) Our Dumb Century 0 - 609 - 80461 - 8 $ 16 . 95 paper ( Canada : $ 25 . 95 )
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Author: Amie Barrodale
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: STANFORD:36105124216818
Category: Humor
Page: 312
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A wild and wicked parody of America's preoccupation with national security offers a selection of whimsical news stories, opinion pieces, and blurbs that offer a pointed look at Donald Rumsfeld, America's dependence on foreign oil, domestic surveillance, and other hot topics. Original. 150,000 first printing.... useful to our forefathers when wigs were fashionable . The whitest were made
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Author: Thomas Jackson
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ISBN: OXFORD:N11479371
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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: 075222011X
Category: American wit and humor
Page: 174
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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.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: 1558625445
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 648
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Annotation This multi-volume series provides detailed histories of more than 7,000 of the most influential companies worldwide.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
least comparatively , fortune to the little company whose 50 or so employees , in
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ISBN: UOM:39015057937602
Category: Journalism
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executive chef of the Oyster Bar , playwright Charles Busch , and Multiple ...
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ISBN: NWU:35556032886483
Category: New York (N.Y.)
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We knew that the show is not really a tangible object , and the book is real . We
wanted something we can hold , a physical object . 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
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ISBN: UCSC:32106018607900
Category: American literature
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All in ỚT CON" Our Dumb Century " tent with turns this same cutting its legions
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Category: Current events
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being . partly through its means , of the ... Century . the sparrow question will
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Author: Robert Siegel
Publisher:
ISBN: 140004961X
Category: Humor
Page: 264
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An anthology encompassing hundreds of articles from November 2001 through October 2002, includes "Area Man Not Exactly Sure When to Take Down American Flags" and such post-September 11 works as "Spaghetti-Os Discontinued as Franco-American Relations BreakFrom the creators of America's favorite presidential address, WeeklyRadioAddress.com (as seen on TheOnion.com), comes this unauthorized autobiography of George W. Bush.
Author: Scott Dikkers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743299664
Category: Humor
Page: 167
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From the creators of America's favorite presidential address, WeeklyRadioAddress.com (as seen on TheOnion.com), comes this unauthorized autobiography of George W. Bush.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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Author: James Ciment
Publisher:
ISBN: STANFORD:36105127417645
Category: United States
Page: 1574
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Alphabetically arranged entries provide coverage of the diplomatic, economic, political, and cultural events in the United States from the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower.He has to explain to his Dad , in public , both the joke and how to pronounce
Prôôst . But in a snap , his nose is back into the faux centennial edition of The
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List of Rhodes scholars, 1904-1915: v.2 p. [145]-161. Vol. for 1934- include Addresses and occupations of Rhodes scholars and other Oxonians (called 1934-36, Addresses and occupations of Rhodes scholars).The Onion Platinum Prestige Encore Gold Premium Collector's Edition contains the first three books by The Onion, America's Finest News Source: Our Dumb Century; The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Vol. 1; and Dispatches from the Tenth Circle ...
Author: Onion Editors
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 140005267X
Category: Humor
Page: 528
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The Onion Platinum Prestige Encore Gold Premium Collector's Edition contains the first three books by The Onion, America's Finest News Source: Our Dumb Century; The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Vol. 1; and Dispatches from the Tenth Circle. This handsome gift package boasts many extraordinary and unique features, including: • Fully Turnable Pages • Genuine Repackaging • Remastered Binding • Easy-to-Read Black Type • Thousands of Commas • A One-of-a-Kind ISBN • Front-Wheel Drive, Dual Airbags, and Rich Leather Interior Own the three Onion classics, plus this beautiful box—three books for the price of three!