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Our Dumb Century

Buy this book, it is amazing from start to finish, especially if you know a bit of 20th century history (or know someone who does). The Onion upped their game for this book.

This image is one of the pages.

1976: "Cambodia to Switch to Skull-Based Economy."

There's that book with a century of Onion headlines.

Amazon link for the book

Or to search nearby libraries.

According to the fine publication of The Onion titled Our Dumb Century, it is indeed much older than that. This fine newspaper is descended from a newspaper titled The Mercantile-Onion, founded in 1765. It took on its current form in 1896, when T. Herman Zweibel took over, and renamed it The Onion. He would remain publisher until his court-ordered retirement in 1958.

all events for the past 5 years were written by markov bots based on history books, except someone slipped a copy of Our Dumb Century into the library.

Context for those who don't know the Onion or the book

Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source https://www.amazon.com/dp/0609804618/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_L7iOyb1W57QH4

My first exposure to The Onion was actually through that book. Hard to believe there was a time when I could have found it in a bookstore before finding it online.

It's from their book Our Dumb Century from 1999, with faux front pages from every year of the 20th century.

They've made some good books (and some not-so-good ones), but this is by far the best IMO. And the design is great, it really really looks vintage. That makes the jokes work on a whole new level for me.

This is from Our Dumb Century, a brilliant book by Theonion.com

I bought their book back in 99:

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Dumb-Century-Presents-Headlines/dp/0609804618

Years ago, The Onion published Our Dumb Century, a book of (intentionally) fake news about the twentieth century. This GIF couldn't help but remind me of one of its parody headlines: "Whites Eagerly Await Release of Windows 95".

That is true, they did surrender. Or rather, Petain did. De Gaulle did not. But I contest your claim that it was because of their getting steam rolled. The idea of French soldiers surrendering a lot seems to have been a recent invention, following first the Onion using the title a lot in their headlines in Our Dumb Century (1990), then Fark, and The Simpsons (1995), and finally being propagated, according to Quora, as a stab at the French as 'revenge' for the French refusal to help the USA invade Iraq in 2003.

I actually thought of that exact Onion page when I saw the photo.

This book has been sitting on my coffee table for many years and it never gets old:
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Dumb-Century-Presents-Headlines/dp/0609804618

Oh shit, you're missing out. The Onion was excellent back then. They had stuff like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Dumb-Century-Presents-Headlines/dp/0609804618

Their articles during the gore/bush court battle, on 9/11, and leading up to the Iraq war were epic.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-regio,11534/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-angrily-clarifies-dont-kill-rule,222/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-plunges-into-chaos,187/

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It's from "The Onion: Our Dumb Century.". A collection of (obviously fictitious) headlines throughout the 1900s.

"Yellow Submarine' introduces generation of children to the wonders of LSD hallucinations."

It's in The Onion's "Our Dumb Century" book, which is pretty hilarious/awesome.

This is from The Onion, the famous satirical newspaper and website. Specifically their book Our Dumb Century. Other headlines include a series on Nixon escaping from Washington, leading authorities on a nationwide chase before being gunned down outside a hotel in Arizona, and President Hoover attempting to shore up consumer confidence in banks by giving away a free toaster with each new account.

It's pretty amazing. It's even sharper and funnier (and so densely-layered and historically accurate, right down to the hyphened compound words and ridiculous ads) that I have to recommend it.

Corpse-eating rats now largest military force in Europe.

The first link has the front page. The "coverage" is labeled as "Holy Fucking Shit: Attack on America."

This is not to be confused with the Onion's fake front page from the moon landing, which was in the amazing book Our Dumb Century.