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Mac Elite
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Sep 4, 2009, 02:32 PM
 
Repeat after me: The Onion is not a reliable news source.

Apparently, a Bangladeshi newspaper didn't get the memo (via BBC). You've gotta love their reasoning: "We thought it was true so we printed it without checking."

Sigh.

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Sep 5, 2009, 01:11 AM
 
Really? Did they even look at anything below the article or beside it? (No)
     
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Sep 5, 2009, 01:13 AM
 
Originally Posted by TheoCryst View Post
"We thought it was true so we printed it without checking."

Sigh.


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Sep 5, 2009, 01:38 AM
 
Originally Posted by TheoCryst View Post
Repeat after me: The Onion...
Your link is malformed. Has an extra http:// at the beginning.
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