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...has the onion crossed a line wih this headline?
Ramones Reunion Almost Complete
[this question may be better suited for ilx]

― william (william), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It's actually kind of subtle, in a way. I laughed.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

BOYCOTT

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

worse than "ebert triumphant"?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

there are no lines. that's pretty much the point of the onion.
and do you actually believe that it would involve the ramones if it did happen?
what makes them more special than all the other dead people they have made jokes about?

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a much more reverent joke than the Matchbox 20 article in the same issue.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

magic city:: while i agree with you on your last point,you lost me with this,and do you actually believe that it would involve the ramones if it did happen?

― william (william), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i just can't imagine a joke about the ramones to be "over the line" in anyone's mind .
I mean why the ramones?

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

o but thanks for starting this thread. i haven't read the onion since i moved from new york. i guess i forgot about it.

Also my favorite music joke in the onion: Guy from the Strokes accused of looking like guy from Strokes.

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite non-music headline ever in The Onion:

Detroit Burned Down For The Insurance Money

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't that just an expansion of the old "What do you need for a Beatles reunion? Two bullets" gag?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

guess i am just thinking about tommy ramone coming across the headline and how it would read to him.

― william (william), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

well almost everything in the onion is over the line to person or people it's about. that's what makes it funny.

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

After George bit it, they ran the headline RINGO NEXT. this one's less brutal and more funny.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

As tired as The ONION has gotten lately, I can't recall them ever really crossing the line. Their issue two weeks after September 11, 2001, was really great and showed their ability to handle sensitive issues in a funny way.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

They (the Ramones) would probably find it funny, so I wouldn't worry about it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ramones one didn't strike me as being mean-spirited, but the really dodgy one was the one after Weird Al Yankovic's parents died, about him adapting Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" as a tribute to his parents. (Kind of implying that Weird Al is incapable of having an original, genuine expression of emotion...) That one didn't settle with me nicely.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the Weird Al bit was just creepy. Mind you, they seem to have some sort of Weird Al obsession over at the Onion.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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