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The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1

The Onionis the world's most popular humor periodical. Its first book, Our Dumb Century, was a New York Times#1 best-seller and winner of the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Now The Onionreturns with Volume One of the paper's greatest, most hard-hitting stories, including:

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—Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia: Operation Vowel Storm Will Make Countless Bosnian Names More Pronounceable

—Jesus Christ Returns to NBA

—Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes

—I Can't Stand My Filthy Hippy Owner by Thunder the Ferret

Genre
humorsatire
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 165 pages

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