Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source

by The Onion

Paperback, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

PN6231.N6 O95

Series

The Onion (book 1)

Genres

All Topics

Nonfiction

Publication

Three Rivers Press (1999), Edition: 1, 176 pages

Description

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.

User reviews

LibraryThing member mr_pand

A brilliant collection of satirical news stories from 'The Onion', documenting in retrospect events of twentieth-century America. Cleverly written and very funny, this book will appeal to anyone who appreciates intelligent satire, but especially those with an interest in history, who can pick out

the humorous revisions of historical detail.

The book can get a bit repetitive if read in large chunks, but it's a great item to have on your bookshelf to dip in and out of, and to share with those who have not yet discovered the joy of reading The Onion.

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LibraryThing member AlexTheHunn

Brilliant satire from the Onion. They manage to skewer the folly of those who let themselves be led too easily by the news, those who become too packaged and processed.

LibraryThing member burnsy_porchington

The idea of creating onion articles about every major event (and non-event) of the 20th century obviously inspired the writers to write the best of this series.

LibraryThing member kaelirenee

A great little book of what headlines would have looked like had the Onion been around for the last 100 years.

LibraryThing member theunseen714

If you are a fan of history and satire, this book will have you in absolute stitches!

LibraryThing member grady.cameron

When I pick this book up, I can hardly put it down. There is so much packed into this book it is amazing. I don't think that I have read everything in it, even. Absolutely hilarious, esoteric and arcane humor references (one of the authors defended in an interview the fact that they had President

McKinley jokes).

Truly an amazing piece of humor.

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LibraryThing member cameronl

A brilliant parody of 100 years of newspaper publishing.

LibraryThing member Devil_llama

A typically humorous Onion look at the events of the 20th century. Most of it is spot on, but there are definitely some misses. The newspaper format works absolutely, as they have endeavored to change the look of the newspaper to match the newspapers of the era being spoofed.

LibraryThing member MiaCulpa

If you've read "The Onion", you know what you are getting with "Our Dumb Century"; lots of laughs, as well as some satire that cuts so close to the bone it stops being funny.

Set out as headline stories from throughout the Twentieth Century, with satirical jabs at the eras they were covering, so we

get a story from the early 1900s of rich people enjoying the spectacle of poor people dying, then the Titanic makes an appearance, as do wars and the pill. Highly recommended.

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