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Posted on: March 5, 2010 6:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: How Will the End of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?, newspapers, print journalism, newspaper hoarding, ONN, Onion News Network, comedy, humor, satire, fucking hilarious, streaming video
The decline of the newspaper?? Ransom notes, papier-mâché and slacker gift wrapping will never be the same! Worse, what will crazy old loons pack their houses to the rafters with?
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Hilarious!
"But, stacking is a treasured pastime of loons!"
Perhaps the pastimes of loons will be forced to adapt and evolve ... call it "evoloontion". ;-)
Posted by: Barn Owl | March 5, 2010 7:37 AM
fred allen nailed it correctly when he said: "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns -- he should be drawn and quoted."
Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | March 5, 2010 7:44 AM
Speaking of newspaper-stacking loons, have you heard of the Collyer brothers, who lived in Manhattan? One of them was killed by his own loon booby trap - their house was filled with all kinds of hoarded junk and filth, not just newspapers.
Posted by: Barn Owl | March 5, 2010 8:42 AM
As a daily user of public transit the throwaway line about already subsidizing Amtrak for loons had me practically falling out of my chair.
Posted by: bmljenny | March 5, 2010 12:33 PM
I can't get it to play.
Can you give the original URL?
Posted by: khan | March 5, 2010 6:58 PM
I happen to be one of those crazy loons, and I'm not even very old. I'm just a Contemporary History buff.
I have a nice collection going back to the 1989 US invasion of Panama.
My favorite piece is from Operation Desert Shield, which shows George Bush 41, in huge bold print:
OUR POSITION: WHOLLY DEFENSIVE
You can learn a lot from old newspapers.
Posted by: joshua | March 6, 2010 12:52 AM
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/how_will_the_end_of_print
Posted by: bill | March 6, 2010 5:09 PM