The Onion is a site dedicated to creating massive amounts of BS around small facts. Using TVTropes to explain The Onion is like asking Sarah Palin to explain, uh, err, (ahem!) well, ANYTHING. To take it one idiotic step further (try to follow along Ass, read slowly), criticizing The Onion for it’s shopping is like criticizing Monte Python for having art not up to Renaissance standards. To quote that Italian guy again: Bo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-gus!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JJXX2PHIRHPYZMSHQ6QJ7W6CC4 Ondrej
So, no onions in my tropes? Bah. It’s true that There Is No Such Thing As Notability, and The Onion is pretty notable (just ask those newspapers in, where was it? Bangladesh? India? about confirming your sources), but is that a reason to stop? (Big) No, I tell you. There is nothing that can’t be explained by TVTropes, there are just things we haven’t got around to yet.
armadillo_in_furs
Come on! There is something to this. Since this site has become a parody of itself, using a photo from a satirical “news” website, seems apropos. The only way this mobius strip could get more interesting is if The Onion reported on this.
Waldobaby
I’m holding out for Jon Stewart.
(apologies for the ethnocentric reference)
Matt
American is an ethnicity?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001145933914 Martin Grüning
Ahh… ehm… okay… “…bliiiinded by the light…” (singin’)
Can’t see the picture. At all. Did you PS it away? Is it a US only thing?
Guest
No one has noticed this picture is from the Onion??
WB
This doesn’t qualify, it’s from the Onion. It’s supposed to be a bad photoshopped pic.
http://rland.myopenid.com/ Rai
Being an amazing source of disasters does not make it okay.
http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon
Not sure what the problem was. I have uploaded the post again so hopefully everything should be good.
Bob
Great job, now you can remove it to avoid looking dumb. The onion is explained above.
Blah
I thought they are headless, not legless…
Martin
cmn! it’s the onion, as all other said. it’s ment to be this way. not a disaster at all.
Tyler Durden
Man, I can’t believe The Onion photoshopped a fake picture. I’ll never believe another word they say.
photoshopdisasterdisaster
I don’t know why I am still hanging on. The humour has gone. The disasters are uninspired. Intentional or not, the dumbing down on here has really made it lose its spark.
I might have been willing to forgive this from the Onion if it wouldn’t have been so extremely easy to include the legs into the image.
Astridmoon
Yes being from the Onion, one of the most respected sources of news in the States, I expected more than this clumsy image.
steveg01
OUCH! My fingers are on fire! What is this shit, the world’s biggest George Foreman grill? Oh my god where are my legs? Now THAT’S cool, where do I sign?
KBe
So this is, what Solyndra makes for advertisement… I thought they would Be smarter, ’cause they Managed to make this pv-Module, that is really awesome! We have Build some plants with them here in Germany.
But that Shows it for real: Obama and everyone around him are just puppets with no legs!