Someone Might Want To Tell This Blogger About the "Delete" Button...
Most people who've snorkeled around the Internet for any length of time realize that The Onion is a publication and Web site that provides some of society's most biting, humorous (and often tasteless) satire. But the blogger at March Together for Life apparently isn't paying attention, and he's paying the price.
His July 6 post, severely criticizing a 1999 (on the ball, dude!) Onion piece (of fiction) by a woman excited about an upcoming abortion, has the blogosphere laughing collectively. The 26 search results taking "Peter" to task for not understanding satire (and not bothering to note a 1999 dateline on the original piece of comedy) are only the beginning of the ridicule; at 10 a.m. today, the blog post contained 844 comments (no, wait; it's now 846 since I started writing this!) from readers begging to hand him a clue. That total compares with about 600 comments that were posted on the blog late Tuesday night and about 200 Tuesday morning. And Peter's July 11 attempt to explain the entry isn't going over, either (more comments). (Hint to Peter: use the "Delete this entry" button before it's too late! Oops, never mind).
Posted by Sue MacDonald at July 12, 2006 10:30 AM
