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Showing posts with label Not from the Onion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Not from the Onion. Show all posts

Oil spill glamour shots in Vogue

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Not from The Onion (I think): Vogue Italia pays tribute to the Gulf oil spill with a fashion shoot: Kristen McMenamy in the "survivor...

NFL player sets Guiness World Record for scoring points in a video game, playing as himself

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Sounds like a story from the Onion, but it's true , Daunte Culpepper did real well in a Madden football game, playing as himself.

Tiki Barber takes credit for the NY Giants Super Bowl win

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This falls under "Not from the Onion." For those of you that don't follow American pro football. Tiki Barber was a star runni...

Florida had to buy super-sized autopsy tables (and morgue drawers) for fat people

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Headline of the Day from major newspaper: "Jamie Lynn Spears is not the first teen to have a baby"

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That's an actual headline from the LA Times from December 31, 2007. Via .

Scotland's New £125k Slogan = Welcome To Scotland

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"The new message was devised with help from one of Scotland's top advertising agencies, The Leith Agency." Link . Via .

Britain's House of Lords is considering new rules eliminating thick bread

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Unfortunately not from The Onion: Baroness Gardener said: "I speak as a member of the All-Party Group on Obesity. Why is it that in cen...

Not from the Onion: The British Santa has been told to get in shape

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Bluewater shopping centre in Greenhithe, Kent, has even gone one step further and set-up a Santa boot camp. Fiona Campbell-Reilly, spokeswom...

Not from the Onion: Violence has declined so much in Iraq, business is poor for cemetary owners

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