Apr 23, 2023·edited Apr 23, 2023Liked by James daSilva
Didn't the Onion do another "wire mommy" joke just a few issues back? The actual concept is based on some disturbing monkey behavioral studies from the 60's (as that review describes), but I guess it had some pop-culture currency in the early 2000s. Perhaps the Onion writers just read that same book.
I was wondering that myself, and maybe it's in an infographic I overlooked. But there's been a lot of mom/mommy references in spring 2003, to be honest.
Didn't the Onion do another "wire mommy" joke just a few issues back? The actual concept is based on some disturbing monkey behavioral studies from the 60's (as that review describes), but I guess it had some pop-culture currency in the early 2000s. Perhaps the Onion writers just read that same book.
I was wondering that myself, and maybe it's in an infographic I overlooked. But there's been a lot of mom/mommy references in spring 2003, to be honest.
Found it, it's the Celine Dion one: https://onion20.substack.com/p/20-years-ago-the-onion-bush-bored-iraq-war