NO FARKING WAY!11 That's terrible!!!!1 What about Ed Anger?

that is really sucky. now what's there to look at in the checkout line?

on top of that, how will i know when satan comes back driving an audi in santa monica?

The planet is going to become a lot more boring.....as is the wait in the grocery line.

I am going to miss Batboy. }-(

I'm madder than a conservative lothario at the Republican national convention hospitality suite with his hand up Ann Coulter's little black skirt!

HOw can they DO this?

I have a stack of WWNs from the 80s and 90s that I just never could part with. They're classics. "Man weds head of lettuce", "Pie in the face kills circus clown", and my personal favorite(s), "World's fattest baby!"

This is the end of an era.

I remember when they caught batboy. He got stranded on a rooftop when the Mississippi flooded. He was still wild back then, and not the government scientist he is now. He was just a baby back then!

Now I feel bad for all the enjoyment my family and I got from it in the checkout line. We should have bought a copy now and again instead of making fun of the articles.

/or maybe not

Brodan: I remember when they caught batboy. He got stranded on a rooftop when the Mississippi flooded. He was still wild back then, and not the government scientist he is now. He was just a baby back then!

I wonder if Bat Boy can be handed over to some other fake news outlet? Has anyone contacted Fox?

I am lowering my flag to halve staff this evening.

silently weeping

That was my great-grandma's favorite newspaper. She believed every word of it. Seeing WWN at the grocery store makes me think of her.

wil: I wonder if Bat Boy can be handed over to some other fake news outlet? Has anyone contacted Fox?

If I remember correctly, there is an X-Files episode that at least eludes to this very thing.

America mourns

Where will the Men in Black get all their intel now?

Now where will Russian scientists get published?

/Favorite headline contest?
//"Man laughs his own head off and has scars to prove it"

I went caving once where Bat Boy was 'discovered'. I don't think the owners of the cave gave permission to WWN to use it in the Bat Boy saga, but they were amused by it all. They had a bunch of cut-outs from WWN as decorations in the gift shop.

wil:
I wonder if Bat Boy can be handed over to some other fake news outlet? Has anyone contacted Fox?

I think FOX contacted them - reliable sources do tell us that management turned down at least one offer to buy the publication.

The only news I read when I'm on vacation.
/Fark's best news-banner-tag thingie
//the aliens have won

This is truly a sad day for us all.

Is this satire? You can't fool me.

My all-time favorite WWN story is the "ABE WAS A BABE" one with a photo of Lincoln in drag.

but his music will live on in our hearts! (pops)

I used to buy that every week and bring it into work for everyone to read and laugh at. 'course, I worked phone and e-mail tech support. Anything was a relief and intellectual stimulation compared to the customers/other employees/management.

That makes me pig-biting mad.

Nice reference, CtrlAltDelete. Wasn't the World's Fatest Baby issue hanging on the fridge in that movie?

Oh, and I loved the issue where scientists found the planet Hell by listening to the screams from across the universe. Awesome. I'm kinda sad now. Sniff.

Where will I turn to for my new year predictions?

Dallymo:

I'm madder than a conservative lothario at the Republican national convention hospitality suite with his hand up Ann Coulter's little black skirt!


"I know all there is to know about the crying game..."

Aw man. That is the worst news I've heard in years. ...and this weekend was going so well too.

Hopefully the new Wall Street Journal will able to fill the gap

I am SO proud that the first p-to-tha-ost lamented what will prove to be the greatest loss of all: Ed Anger.

/curious if I subverted the filter or if I'm pwned yet again

Damnit. I've had aspirations of working for (and eventually taking over) WWN for years.

Let this be a lesson, kids - go for your crazy ideas while you can.

shed a tear for Batboy

ELVIS TRIBE FOUND IN JUNGLE They wear wigs and sing "Hound Dog" just like the King

/classic headline from the early '90s and one of the only issues I ever bought

*sigh* No more Dear Dotty and no more Page 5 girls! This farking sucks.

It's OK you guys... Batboy has moved to South America and is living in a Utopian compound with Elvis and Hitler. Bigfoot visits once a month, and Nessie sends postcards.

My dad told me the nargles are to blame.

All I could think of was the Mom from "So I Married an Axe Murder"...
/The paper.
//That's a fact.

One more I saw a few years back had saddam and bin laden getting married, and included pictures of their honeymoon. I think there was pictures of them going down a roller coaster together, I was dying in the check out lane.

This is a sentimental moment. I don't go to people's funerals and say, "Hey! Chill out guys. It's just your mom!"

Weekly World News raised me in aisle 7 when I was abandoned by my parents. Aliens taught me how to read! Dammit, Jim!

They're closing down because so many people can spot their photoshops. Having seen so many shops in their time.

Bush shut WWN down because they knew too much.

That's it! I'm madder than a lion in a telephone booth with sandpaper on it's ass!

nnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooo.............

They probably finally got something right.

wil: I wonder if Bat Boy can be handed over to some other fake news outlet? Has anyone contacted Fox?

Thanks, you just made my night.

kinabrew:

They probably finally got something right.

Actually, they quite often salted real articles in with the fun stuff. I recall several times reading an article about some scientific development and then a few days later reading about the same thing in the weekly Science News. Scooped by Eddie Klontz!

This is so very sad. Pig-bitin' sad.

It is a truly sad day. I can't believe it. I thought I once read that WWN outsold TIME magazine.

How will I keep informed of where Satans face appears now (in Kuwait, in a US Heat Wave, in Hurricane Katrina).

//I actually own the Ed Anger book (If I remember, its "Let's Pave the Rainforests and Give Teachers Stun Guns.")