Pages

Showing posts with label The Onion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Onion. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2009

A Lovely Story

The Onion offers some pretty good little "faux" news stories from time to time. Here's the first line of one that I found funny...

After carefully examining every inch of sidewalk within a four block radius of his home Tuesday, local dog Sigmund, 4, finally found the absolutely perfect place to squat down on his hind legs and void his bowels.
Click here to link to the entire piece.

-
-

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Making The Most of Your E-Mail

The Onion takes a look at spam emails and sort of begs the question, how stupid do you have to be to bite on the too-good-to-be-true offers? There must be a bunch of people out there jumping on the stuff or the spammers would stop.

From The Onion (click on the link to read the whole thing)...

When I looked closer at the deals, some natural questions started popping up. First of all, would the cash they were offering be available immediately? Would refinancing my home loan lower my monthly payments, even if I took out some cash? Would I have to wait, or could I sign up today? Luckily, as I investigated the claims, the all-caps words IMMEDIATE CASH, LOWER RATES, and TODAY assuaged my concerns.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

A Wonderful Community Service Project



Note: This video is from the satirical news service, The Onion.