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― doom-e, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

YLT are so obscure! Only record store clerks like them! Funny!

― , Wednesday, 11 December 2002 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

come on that is fucking funny

― juiceboxxx, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The funniest thing about this one is the pictures of the missing people. The rest ain't so hot.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

RECORD STORE CLERKS ARGUE WHETHER RECORD STORE CLERK STORY IS "FUNNY".

― doom-e, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of people who read the Onion aren't even going to get this.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I wager there are lots of record store clerks who don't know who YLT are. I certainly work with a number of them.

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

If I had a penny every time that article is linked, I'd have 5 pence by now.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey the local record store in my town is called Bert's.
This is really funny.

"A lot of people who read the Onion aren't even going to get this. "
sure they will.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

the article is genius to link: all cynical comments reinforces the record clerks commentary on the fire!

― doom-e, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Here it was first linked back in April.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

tango

― gygax!, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

It takes two to Yo La Tango

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 12 December 2002 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It was quoted in an Uncut Yo La Tengo review, I think. It's quite funny.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 12 December 2002 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The Shins linked to this on their website sometime back.

YLT are so obscure!
Maybe to you they're not, but you're also retarded.

― David Allen, Thursday, 12 December 2002 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, yeah. The humor in the article is sooo subtle that only overly defensive music geeks can get it.

― rat, Thursday, 12 December 2002 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Onion has fallen off even more than the Simpsons, more than Mad Magazine even. There is one thing in that article that's funny, and it's unintentionally funny.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 December 2002 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, once again, let us praise _The Onion_...

― ron (ron), Thursday, 12 December 2002 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Onion has fallen off even more than the Simpsons, more than Mad Magazine even. There is one thing in that article that's funny, and it's unintentionally funny.
-- James Blount (littlejohnnyjewel@e...), December 12th, 2002.

I dont think it's even possible within the bounds of human emotion for me to disagree with you more.

― David Allen, Thursday, 12 December 2002 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Talk about a thread title I obviously wrote...scary!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

David - do you actually think The Onion is as good as it was four or five years ago, when many of the stories they use to fill out their issues nowadays first ran? It's still good for an occasional laugh (ie funnier than a McSweeney's list), but the Mad parody of the Onion was funnier than 90% of what's in there nowadays.

And I will pay a quarter to whoever can name the one really, really funny thing about the 'Yo La Tengo' article.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 December 2002 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno but that one girl kinda looks like rosemary

― ron (ron), Thursday, 12 December 2002 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I know it's cool to be cynical and all, but if you can't admit that this is fucking hilarious, you have no soul.

I'd still say the Onion is hilarious 70% of the time, the other 30%, they're just really funny. They miss, very, very rarely I find.

― David Allen, Thursday, 12 December 2002 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, for some reason the HTML messed up, so Ill just post the URL

http://www.theonion.com/onion3846/nation_afraid_to_admit.html

― David Allen, Thursday, 12 December 2002 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

How is it cynical to think the Onion isn't as funny as it used to be? Even my sister, who listens to Coldplay AND Dave Matthews (hardly Miss Cynical Jaded Hipster), has noticed that the formula (and the Onions' vice and it's virtue is its strict adherence to formula) isn't the bottomless well it used to be. It happened to pretty much every other peer/forebear/whatever of the Onion's (National Lampoon, Spy, SNL, the Simpsons) so it's hardly surprising that there's been a little bit of decline, but there's been some decline nonetheless and the Yo La Tengo story indicates as much, to me at least.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 December 2002 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

This - http://www2.warnerbros.com/madmagazine/files/onthestands/ots_424/bunion.html - on the other hand, not only made me laugh harder than anything I've read in The Onion for awhile, it was the first time in twenty years (and I ain't that old) I've laughed at something in Mad Magazine.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 December 2002 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey the local record store in my town is called Bert's.

Same here. Where are you from?

― lou, Thursday, 12 December 2002 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

And I will pay a quarter to whoever can name the one really, really funny thing about the 'Yo La Tengo' article.

..maybe you think it's:
"As of press time, police and emergency rescue workers were still sifting through the wreckage for copies of Magnet, heated debates over the definition of emo, and other signs of record-store-clerk life."

But as a YLT fan, I can tell you it's actually:
"It's just tragic," Gaer continued. "I heard they were going to play Daniel Johnston's 'Speeding Motorcycle.' They almost never do that one live."

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I read the MAD thing, it was pretty good, with the exception of it being called "Bunion",which is almost as bad as the time they did "THE BLUNDER YEARS." and I think the Onion could just as easily parody MAD.

Also, when they said the Onion did "thinly vailed "humorous" takes on a tragedy" that happened too soon, I disagreed. Their coverage of Sept. 11th was I think not only in good taste, but the only thing that releaved me of all the stress going on at the time. Besides, it was hilarious.

― David Allen, Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

their handling of the Columbia tragedy was pretty fucking hilarious without being tacky or offensive

― James Blount, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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