We would snag copies of The Onion at the University of Minnesota many many years ago. Always fun. I’m glad they brought it back. It was always a great casual read

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vitaflo 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Was one of my fav thing about being in Madison in the mid-90s. Especially the “Drunk of the Week” because you always checked to see if it was someone you knew.

	▲	autoexec 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The next time I'm in the area I'll have to check to see if it's still true that copies of The Onion are offered all over the place at no cost (I'm guessing they don't do it anymore though). Back in the 90s I was actually shocked when I saw that people in other places had to pay money for them.
	▲	jawilson2 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I did a college visit to UW in 1998, and leafing through The Onion at Union Terrace on Lake Mendota after the tour was one of the deciding factors for me to go there.
	▲	bruhwha 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		My uncle was/is friends with Tim Keck since he started the Onion at UW Madison. Used to get handed a stack and asked to spread them around high school. Years later uncle texts asking if I have weed. At the time yeah I always did. He says bring it to the Berrymore and I smoked up Tim, Eric, and John C Reilly like nbd. Ahh the old days.

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JadeNB 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.

(Also, UM has, or had back when I read it, the best school newspaper I've ever read.)

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burnt-resistor 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I heard UIUC had it too in the 90's. Can anyone confirm?

	▲	dalke 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I can confirm. I started grad school in physics there in 1992. The weekly department colloquium was on Thursday afternoon, just after the latest Onion came out. It was not uncommon to see a few people reading it during the talk.
	▲	stockresearcher 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes. All the Big Ten schools that a founder who grew up in Indiana and Wisconsin cared about had it. Maybe even Ohio State. I’m not sure how far east it got back then.