KERRVILLE, TX—Offering an added incentive in the hopes of enticing the young man to sign up for the military, U.S. Army recruiter Henry “Tex” Teevens revealed during a job fair Thursday that he had a bound, gagged civilian that 18-year-old Milo Carnes could shoot right now if he enlisted. “Yeah, buddy, I got one right…
Agreed…the quality never really went down, but the current content has that bite that early Onion pieces did. The early Onion was great but also new and something we really hadn’t seen before (by early Onion I mean Internet Onion, not the strictly print version).
This is the Onion that we all know and love, and have for years, but the more recent satire is so much more rough and blunt and raw that it elicits a similar reaction to the fresh, new Onion whose content was consistently a shocking yet laugh-until-you-cry experience because it hadn’t yet become routine. It’s like they said “Hold my absolute one last fuck that I had been saving for an emergency”.
Basically they’ve managed to reinvent the shock value, if that makes sense.
Damn that was wordy. I hope my point comes across.
Yes! Your point totally comes across, and I love words so whatever to the wordiness you feel! As a trained copy editor, I’d have trouble expressing the same in less words, even though that’s a specialty of mine. I hope we continue to get this “last fuck given” content. I NEED IT in these trying times.
Thanks so much! That makes me feel really good…I’m often told that I take too long to get to the point so this is honestly appreciated. :)