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dudemanbro
2007-07-22 12:07:02 AM  
NO FARKING WAY!11 That's terrible!!!!1 What about Ed Anger?
 
kingMountain
2007-07-22 12:12:52 AM  
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?
 
arkansas
2007-07-22 12:13:54 AM  
The planet is going to become a lot more boring.....as is the wait in the grocery line.
 
oldebayer
2007-07-22 12:17:30 AM  
I am going to miss Batboy. }-(
 
Dallymo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-07-22 12:19:15 AM  
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!"
 
CtrlAltDelete
2007-07-22 12:20:53 AM  
This is the end of an era.
 
CtrlAltDelete
2007-07-22 12:22:06 AM  
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Brodan
2007-07-22 12:22:07 AM  
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!
 
arethusa
2007-07-22 12:22:43 AM  
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
 
kingMountain
2007-07-22 12:23:34 AM  
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!

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wil [TotalFark]
2007-07-22 12:28:17 AM  
I wonder if Bat Boy can be handed over to some other fake news outlet? Has anyone contacted Fox?
 
FredaDeStilleto
2007-07-22 12:30:13 AM  
I am lowering my flag to halve staff this evening.

silently weeping
 
penthesilea
2007-07-22 12:40:16 AM  
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.
 
CtrlAltDelete
2007-07-22 12:53:25 AM  
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.
 
bikerdiva
2007-07-22 12:54:39 AM  
America mourns
 
Wise_Guy
2007-07-22 1:08:14 AM  
Where will the Men in Black get all their intel now?
 
mutterfark
2007-07-22 1:10:36 AM  
Now where will Russian scientists get published?

/Favorite headline contest?
//"Man laughs his own head off and has scars to prove it"
 
Allerleirauh
2007-07-22 1:36:36 AM  
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.
 
harryasaboy [OhFark]
2007-07-22 1:47:39 AM  
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
 
Confabulat [recently expired TotalFark]
2007-07-22 2:22:55 AM  
This is truly a sad day for us all.
 
orlandogreer
2007-07-22 3:17:15 AM  
Is this satire? You can't fool me.
 
Calvin Coolidge
2007-07-22 3:20:08 AM  
My all-time favorite WWN story is the "ABE WAS A BABE" one with a photo of Lincoln in drag.
 
ninja_jazza
2007-07-22 3:20:18 AM  
but his music will live on in our hearts! (pops)
 
LowbrowDeluxe
2007-07-22 3:20:33 AM  
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.
 
Sliding Carp [TotalFark]
2007-07-22 3:22:12 AM  
That makes me pig-biting mad.
 
ye olde shiza
2007-07-22 3:22:41 AM  
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.
 
skinink [OhFark]
2007-07-22 3:23:15 AM  
WHY MOSES WANDERED IN THE DESERT FOR FORTY YEARS: He Lost the Map!

[image from weeklyworldnews.com too old to be available]
 
Kurpal
2007-07-22 3:24:25 AM  
Where will I turn to for my new year predictions?
 
DrBenway
2007-07-22 3:24:29 AM  
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..."
 
cerebulon13
2007-07-22 3:31:32 AM  
Aw man. That is the worst news I've heard in years. ...and this weekend was going so well too.
 
Jacques Lestrap
2007-07-22 3:34:12 AM  
Hopefully the new Wall Street Journal will able to fill the gap
 
Crocodile
2007-07-22 3:34:55 AM  
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
 
Baby_Firefly
2007-07-22 3:35:58 AM  
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
 
100 Watt Walrus
2007-07-22 3:36:05 AM  
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
 
MattyBlast [TotalFark]
2007-07-22 3:38:40 AM  
*sigh* No more Dear Dotty and no more Page 5 girls! This farking sucks.
 
Llois
2007-07-22 3:41:32 AM  
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.
 
Flying Lasagna Monster
2007-07-22 3:41:57 AM  
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theurge14
2007-07-22 3:42:55 AM  
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My dad told me the nargles are to blame.
 
nautimike
2007-07-22 3:43:08 AM  
All I could think of was the Mom from "So I Married an Axe Murder"...
/The paper.
//That's a fact.
 
nobiology2424
2007-07-22 3:43:26 AM  
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.
 
ye olde shiza
2007-07-22 3:43:33 AM  
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!
 
saga
2007-07-22 3:44:40 AM  
They're closing down because so many people can spot their photoshops. Having seen so many shops in their time.
 
Flying Lasagna Monster
2007-07-22 3:46:21 AM  
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Bush shut WWN down because they knew too much.
 
i hate jimmy page
2007-07-22 3:47:53 AM  
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killiemary
2007-07-22 3:48:10 AM  
That's it! I'm madder than a lion in a telephone booth with sandpaper on it's ass!
 
Virulency
2007-07-22 3:48:58 AM  
nnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooo.............
 
kinabrew
2007-07-22 3:52:07 AM  
They probably finally got something right.
 
dArthvAter
2007-07-22 3:53:36 AM  
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.
 
maxheck
2007-07-22 4:01:08 AM  
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.
 
kicker_conspiracy
2007-07-22 4:13:29 AM  
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.")
 
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