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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)

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