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	sneer 2010-12-24 03:53 am UTC (link)
	And now she dead from lol. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	feenix 2010-12-24 03:58 am UTC (link)
	Am I the only one who likes screwhim because she's the only ONTDer that doesn't have an icon of some celeb doing something in a sped-up five-frame gif that repeats every second so it looks like they're twitching? ...of course, the batshit insanity that spewed forth from her keyboard immediately negated any goodwill, but I liked her for a second. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eleutheria 2010-12-24 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	I HATE those icons sfm it's not even funny. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2010-12-24 04:16 am UTC (link)
	When your icon is one of the Olsen twins resembling a tarted-up troll doll, you lose a whole lot of credibility right off the bat. Add in the vehement insistence that the Enquirer is a reputable news source, you may as well just hang a sign that says "Batshit" around your neck. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	librarianmouse 2010-12-24 06:32 am UTC (link)
	I think the poster who guessed wanker was a National Enquirer employee probably hit the nail on the head. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notjo 2010-12-25 11:43 am UTC (link)
	Sounds about right to me. I don't know of anyone else who would talk about the National Enquirer "breaking" stories. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jkefka 2010-12-24 04:58 am UTC (link)
	TOTES LIJIT DUDE (Reply to this)

	puipui 2010-12-24 05:23 am UTC (link)
	It is, at least, no less legitimate than the Weekly World News. I miss the Weekly World News. Sigh. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	chibikaijuu 2010-12-24 05:28 am UTC (link)
	I miss it too. Bat Boy, we hardly knew ye. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	argylespy 2010-12-24 05:42 am UTC (link)
	Fear not, fair citizen! You need not lament your lack of familiarity any longer! For I bring you Bat Boy: The Musical<./a>! (Yes, that is a real thing. Yes it was performed off-Broadway. Yes it is based on the WWN stories. Yes it IS amazing.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cellardoor28 2010-12-24 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	I went to the first night when it opened (for an all too brief time) in the west end. At the after show party all the drinks served were blood red :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	thoms 2010-12-25 01:33 am UTC (link)
	I love that show SO much. In return for reminding me of it's existence, I give you Orfeh singing the shit out of Children, Children. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kitt_in_socks 2010-12-24 05:46 am UTC (link)
	WWN was the greatest source in all of journalism. Now who will publish the breaking news of Elvis returning and running for President? Or Hillary Clinton's alien baby? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mindset 2010-12-24 06:07 am UTC (link)
	Me too. It was always the most entertaining thing when waiting in line to buy groceries. Who cares about celebrity gossip? I want to know about the dinosaurs on Mars! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui
2010-12-24 06:45 am UTC (link)

I always liked the election ones, where the headline would always say something like "Alien Backs [candidates name here]!" over a picture of the candidate and the alien shaking hands, and the base picture of the alien that they would use for the photoshop job would be the exact same picture every single time. They were shameless, and I loved them for it.

Packed away in a box somewhere, I still have one of my favorite WWN articles that I clipped out back in high school, featuring my very favorite headline ever: "Woman's Bra Busts - Eleven Injured!" Good times.

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	platedlizard 2010-12-24 06:52 am UTC (link)
	I always wanted to write for them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	platedlizard 2010-12-24 06:57 am UTC (link)
	For everyone missing World Weekly, I bring the next best thing. What Does It Mean, which claims to be the largest English news service in the world and hosts such treasures as World Leaders Flock to Afghanistan After Mysterious 'Time Well' Discovered. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eleutheria 2010-12-24 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	"Time Well"? Someone get the Doctor on this stat! (Reply to this)(Parent)

greymouse
2011-01-05 10:49 am UTC (link)

I read it, and I could understand all the individual words, and yet regarding the article as a whole I find I am left with next to no comprehension whatsoever. Here is my summary of what I learned:

There is a horrendous space kablooie in Afghanistan. Various famous dead guys are implicated, including Einstein and Zoroaster. Also, Christians are evil, allegedly.

That's it, that's all I got. Although... maybe I'm looking at this website the wrong way. If I treat it as some guy's collection of RPG plot ideas... then this is actually pretty neat! :-D

Victory through superior imagination!

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puipui
2010-12-24 09:36 am UTC (link)

Yes! Or at least get to sit in on a staff meeting at least once. Can you imagine?

"Okay, guys, what have you got for me this week?"

"Well, Chief, I've been working on this follow-up story where the mutant cats on Mars have kittens..."

"And Batboy delivers them! Yes! Perfect! I love it! Now go photoshop some kitten pics and have it on my desk by Tuesday."

"Right, Chief!"

Awesome.

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	youngcurmudgeon 2010-12-24 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	During the Jayson Blair plagiarism thing over at the New York Times, the gang at Wait Wait Don't Tell Me called the editor-in-chief of the WWN for comment. "Well, it's obviously a very serious story for all of us in the journalism world." "Could Jayson Blair apply for a job with you guys?" "First he has a lot to learn about ethics and honesty." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2010-12-24 06:20 pm UTC (link)
	"First he has a lot to learn about ethics and honesty." DIES (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	youngcurmudgeon 2010-12-24 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	OMG, I found the entire interview and it is EVEN BETTER than I remembered. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2010-12-24 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	DIES AND DIES AGAIN (Reply to this)(Parent)

	re_weird 2010-12-25 12:14 am UTC (link)
	God bless Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. (Reply to this)(Parent)

sorchar
2010-12-24 06:59 am UTC (link)

My favorite was the "Satan's face seen in cloud of smoke from [insert name of disaster/attack/explosion that produced lots of smoke]!" It was always the exact same picture.

It lost some of its charm for me when it stopped trying to pretend it was a serious publication. It was still funny when it was kind of winky-winky, but not as much as when it was really trying to convince us that miners in Poland had actually drilled so deep that they reached Hell.

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	spawn_of_kong 2010-12-24 12:09 pm UTC (link)
	I think my favorite may have been that one about the guy whose name had no vowels in it, and was therefore unpronouncable. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bobgenghiskhan 2010-12-29 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	I used to buy WWN when I was doing high school theater.. it was always fun to pass around backstage during rehearsals when you had a bit part and were stuck there for hours waiting to rehearse your five minutes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seca 2010-12-24 07:15 am UTC (link)
	It was canceled? I had noticed that I didn't see it at the check out counters but I didn't realize that it went under. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	platedlizard 2010-12-24 07:59 am UTC (link)
	The internet killed it. Very tragic. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	puipui 2010-12-24 08:32 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, they don't do a print version at all anymore. They still publish online, but it's just not the same. I miss seeing it at the check out counter and wondering what they could possibly think of next. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	spawn_of_kong 2010-12-24 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	They may have the same level of legitimacy (i.e.: none), but I'd say The National Enquirer tries harder to be convincing than The Weekly World News did. To quote Gene Weingarten: "The Weekly World News makes The National Enquirer look like Kant's Critique of Pure Reason." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	silrana 2010-12-24 03:58 pm UTC (link)
	The Enquirer has been known to run news stories that have been picked up later by the legit news agencies. But I'd put that in the category of a broken clock being right twice a day. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

white_serpent
2010-12-25 01:53 am UTC (link)

Not exactly. If the Enquirer asserts something is true, it almost certainly is and they can back it up. (They lost a few really expensive libel suits and decided it would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.) This happens occasionally.

However, if an-unnamed-source-close-to-celebrity-X thinks Y might possibly be the case, it's utter trash. That's the sort of statement that's libel-proof.

Of course, you'd have to read everything to know which applied. And that's their marketing strategy.

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	tofuknight 2010-12-26 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	I love your icon very, very much. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	theelusiven 2010-12-24 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	Now where will the Winchesters turn for publicity? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	platedlizard 2010-12-24 06:51 am UTC (link)
	I want to reach through the internets and scream "The National Inquirer PAYS their informants!" but that would be bad. It would probably go unheeded anyway. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	evilsqueakers 2010-12-24 10:08 am UTC (link)
	I have a new job! I'm going to be a "source" and get paid for making shit up. Easier than trying to join Basketball Wives anyway. And I get to eat something besides fast food on occasion. (Okay, I'm missing Firefox. I could go backwards and redo point and let it make sense for once. Stupid Chrome.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

ekaterinv
2010-12-24 09:49 pm UTC (link)

Brangelina

KILL IT WITH FIRE.

I realize I'm going to have to stare at pictures of rich smug white people whenever I stand in the checkout line, with headlines posted over their rich smug faces like I give a flying fuck about their rich smug sex lives or pedicures or diets or dogs' hairdos or whatever, but I would very much like some DIFFERENT rich smug white people please.

The National Enquirer was more fun when it was more batty. I'd much rather read about UFOs than endless rich smug white people and occasionally Oprah.

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	randomsome1 2010-12-26 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	ILU. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mcity 2010-12-28 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	It's a valid question. Enquiring minds want to know. Not actually a valid question. (Reply to this)

greymouse
2011-01-05 10:50 am UTC (link)

First I heard about this newspaper, but I'm getting the impression from comments it is not well-regarded. Given that this took me all of five seconds to figure out, surely

screwhim would have known before posting? Although, now that I think of it, she did seem to have her defensive justifications all ready to go, so maybe she did. Perhaps I have misunderestimated her? Oh, and check out xliquidskiesx trying to use earth logic. Silly xliquidskiesx, that doesn't belong on the Internet!

surferxchris' icon makes me want to punch somebody. In fact, I think I'll go do that now.

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