Life Is An Onion
As I noted last week, The Onion had an article about how neither Pittsburgh nor Detroit wanted to win the Stanely Cup since they couldn't afford the victory parade.
Well, joke's on me. First local official said they couldn't afford a parade for the Lakers if they won. Now they're splitting the cost with the team, and the public is still grumbling.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:24 AM
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The Onion is getting too true these days
"Film About Little Guy Battling Huge, Morally Bankrupt Organization Made By Huge, Morally Bankrupt Organization"
And see this from a current Slate article taking gay pride parades to task:
"Probably the most succinct critique of the modern pride parade is a 2001 article from satirical paper The Onion, "Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance of Gays Back 50 Years." In it, a straight female witness to a gay pride march in Los Angeles says, "I'd always thought gays were regular people, just like you and me, and that the stereotype of homosexuals as hedonistic, sex-crazed deviants was just a destructive myth." She then adds, "Boy, oh, boy, was I wrong."
The quote, like the rest of the article, is an exaggeration, of course, but the underlying point stands. With their ribald costuming and hyper-sexualized theatrics, pride parades are certainly things of joy, excitement and bawdy humor. "
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