The Onion: 20 Years Later

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20 years ago, The Onion talked about genocide and homeless people
We also look back at Gen. Erwin Rommel, Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, SpongeBob, "Desperate Housewives," steroids in baseball, high-school debate and more.
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20 years ago, The Onion was sponsored by the Toyota Tacoma
Plus, non-sponsored jokes about Wal-Mart, Scott Peterson, the Supreme Court, Bollywood and the merits of a child stuck in a well.
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20 years ago, The Onion talked about Donald Trump's casinos
Plus, Iraq gets a terror-alert system, Social Security is reformed, college kids love Adderall, Christina Applegate is cursed, and a very meta joke…
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20 years ago, The Onion detained the White House turkey
Let's look back at the FDA, Swift Boat and John Kerry, Pabst's blue ribbon, working through your 20s, Kmart and Sears merging, and a child dominating…
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20 years ago, The Onion reviewed Weird Al's Wikipedia page
Also, The Onion reacts to the 2004 election results, self-help books, the Iraq War, Halloween candy data and much more.
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20 years ago, The Onion mocked our elections
Rediscover The Onion's online-only election commentary, plus Spain's war on bulls, the middle class, workout routines, the Boston Red Sox, and Jean…
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20 years ago, The Onion previewed the 2004 election
Plus, jokes about P. Diddy, vaccines, bosses, secret lives, the metric system and much, much more.
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20 years ago, The Onion said the U.S. lost the Iraq War
We also revisit Bill O'Reilly, Jacques Derrida, the furor over stem-cell research and our old friend Herbert Kornfeld.
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20 years ago, The Onion discovered Jules Verne's 'camera-phone' short story
Plus, Dick Cheney, John Edwards, Coca-Cola, the George Foreman grill, Pope John Paul II, Darfur and much more from this busy time in 2004.
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20 years ago in The Onion, U.S. robots lost their jobs to outsourcing
The Onion correctly predicts that musicians won't swing the 2004 election, plus the "Friends' spinoff "Joey," cushion forts, proverbs, the Patriot Act…
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20 years ago, The Onion questioned Bush's service record
Plus, we have a bedding thread recount, Alvin of the Chipmunks is shamed, tan lines go awry, Florida deals with hurricanes and Dept. Head Rawlings…
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20 years ago, The Onion mocked Matchbox Twenty
I listened to Matchbox Twenty to prepare for this newsletter. Plus, The Onion skewers terrorism fears, interventions, office lunches, Russell Crowe, The…
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