i'm not alone

Any Idiot Could Have Come Up With The Car

During a recent visit to the Smithsonian's National Museum Of American History, I was more than a little amazed to discover they had dedicated an...

I guess I'm not alone in my car-skepticism. All hail The Onion, journal of respectable and well thought-out opinion. Via plannerliness.

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[Lebowski]

You've probably seen this, but in case not, here's a site dedicated to the life of the Onion's founder - T Herman Zweibel.

Not loads on it, but the timeline is pretty funny. There is also a car reference in there, in 1908, when it says, "Although a supporter of Henry Ford's "mass-production" methods, T. Herman Zweibel publicly decries their use in the manufacture of automobiles, and theorizes that the technique might be more aptly suited to the management of large and undesirable populations".

http://www.zweibelmemorial.org/

[Scamp]

Ah, one forgets just how funny The Onion is.

There's another great story on there, by a film reviewer reporting how he was surprised and delighted to be able to follow the plot of Major League II, even though he hadn't seen Major League.

[MarcusBrown]

The onion radio news is just box clever. Love the piece:

"Jerry Lewis Telethon Loses Record Thirty Million Dollars"

classic.