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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching this media circle jerk, I wish "The Weekly World News" was still around.
I bought that rag every week in college...my roommates would pass it around after many beers and bong hits.
I'm not trying to make light of the tragedy, but this news coverage is insane.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,079 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)No bloviating, please.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)He's actually nicer than my kids, and made friends with the bats in my bat house...which we really do have. Last night I counted 37.
gateley
(62,683 posts)Thanks!
gateley
(62,683 posts)stopped publishing -- was so surprised to see its alive and well online!
Happy to hear all that talent didn't go to waste.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)I can't tell you how many laughs we had reading that thing....sometimes we would call the psychics in the back. Juvenile, but funny.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)It was around when I was a kid in the sixties, at the 7-11 store.
I remember being scarred for life when I saw a picture of a dead rat and the headline: DEAD MOUSE FOUND IN COKE.
Some examples:
http://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/keyword/Midnight.html
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Bizarro!
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)We used to decorate our doors in the dorms. Every week I would cut out stories from the WWN and tape them to my door. We all got a big kick out of it. If I had the money, I'd start a national weekly, but I wouldn't make up the stories. There's no need to these days.
just1voice
(1,362 posts)Just poking fun at David Sirota's illogic wherein he hopes it's a white guy who did the bombing.