Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson (founders) state that 1988 was the starting point.
Was it by another name?
Was it not satire but instead you just sitting on the porch with scissors and glue pasting bitchy conservative commentary (leading up to your current incarnation). Maybe you wore an onion on your belt while you did this? (As was the style of the times....A.S.)
Please clarify...myself and the founders await.
I read on some blog that you are Joe C. So I am simply passing on the info for discussion.
So The Onion, founded in 1988 and NAMED IN 1988 by Tim's uncle (after seeing Tim eat an onion sandwich) just decided to take on the name of a current paper that you were helping with 10 years earlier.
Would you prefer I apologize and change it from liar to bullshit artist?
You're full of it dude.
Stick to started fucking retarded threads about how someone else started a thread with a typo.
What color is the sky in your world? You've been absolutely exposed in here as a total bullshit artist. You couldn't even get the year close.
I freely admitted I'd apologize with proof. You hung yourself and won't let go now.
Pretty shameful, and totally expected.
You are still sitting on a baseless accusation...calling me a liar with zero proof.
Thats the facts jack.
Found this by the way....
Officially, the paper purports to be over 250 years old, having originally published in the mid 18th century
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6262966/Type-Specimen-3
You are still sitting on a baseless accusation...calling me a liar with zero proof.
Thats the facts jack.
Found this by the way....
Officially, the paper purports to be over 250 years old, having originally published in the mid 18th century
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6262966/Type-Specimen-3
Wow, from liar to bullshit liar to gullible bullshit liar.
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Officially, the paper purports to be over 250 years old, having originally published in the mid 18th century. It was named “the Mercantile Onion” because those were the only two English words the paper’s immigrant founder, Herman Ulysses Zweibel, knew at the time. (Zwiebel is German for onion – note the difference in spelling.) The newspaper’s motto was Tu Stultus Es, or “You are stupid.”
In 1896 Zweibel’s 20-year-old son, T. Herman Zweibel became editor, a position he supposedly holds to this day despite being over a century old and largely senile. For much of the 20th century the paper was highly reactionary and violently opposed every social reform the century brought forward, from women’s suffrage to married characters sleeping together in the same bed on television.
ktvvegas:
So The Onion, founded in 1988 and NAMED IN 1988 by Tim's uncle (after seeing Tim eat an onion sandwich)