[Wikipedia-l] Re: The Onion on Peer Review

Timwi timwi at gmx.net
Mon Apr 25 20:28:52 UTC 2005


Chad Perrin wrote:
> 
> Err . . . The Onion is satire.  It doesn't seriously purport to be a
> "news source" in the normal sense.  Its stories are intended to be taken
> as satirical treatments of the news, and as far as I'm aware none of its
> stories have ever been true.

OK, thanks for clearing that up. I guess I quite embarrassed myself
here. Will I ever be able to post here again without being ridiculed for
not knowing about The World-Famous Onion?




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