Matt, if you view the cartoonist's series it should become a bit more apparent. It's all tongue-in-cheek, a take-off on the old school political cartoonists who never could draw enough flags, eagles, or triumphant Uncle Sam's. Imagine Steven Colbert at the drawing board. But like a lot of their stories, the whole satire thing kinda whips by people that aren't regular readers. "Onion Story Reported as Real Story" is a reuseable headline. ;)
------------ Patrick Lenon > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Bikies] Onion cartoon > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:16:36 -0600 > > It is hard to tell what is supposed to be funny about the cartoon. The > whole “special rights lane” is pretty funny, given that traffic engineers > have intentionally favored motor vehicle traffic for decades, and would > vaporize that bike lane in an instant to satisfy the wishes of the drivers. > But I have to think that fact is invisible to most of the onion’s readers, > so my money is on the “bike lane for cars” concept being what is supposed to > be funny. > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Lenon > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Bikies] Onion cartoon > > I tried sending the Onion cartoon as an attachment and got > BOOOOOUUUUUUNNNNNNNCED. > > So here's the link: > http://www.theonion.com/articles/congested-values,26723/ > > It'll probably get reprinted as a straight cartoon, of course. First rule > about The Onion is, the people The Onion makes fun of don't know it's a fake > newspaper. > > ------------ Patrick Lenon >
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