| ▲ | Do You Have Pre-2012 Onion Issues?(theonion.com) |
| 179 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 18 comments |
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| ▲ | crtasm 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| >Certain issues of The Onion newspaper are mysteriously missing from our 270-year archive, and you might be able to help us recover them. |
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| ▲ | twiss an hour ago | parent [-] | | I know everything they write is potentially a joke but I got curious when The Onion was founded; apparently it was in 1988, 38 years ago :) | | |
| ▲ | a012 39 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It sounds like their archive contains 270 year old contents, not that they’re 270 year old company | | |
| ▲ | twiss 33 minutes ago | parent [-] | | https://theonion.com/about-us/ says: > Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history. so I'm pretty sure it's just a joke. | | |
| ▲ | plasticchris 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Seems legit, I trust them. They even filed an amicus brief with scotus | | | |
| ▲ | a012 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah I know, nobody takes The Onion at face value. They like to play with words |
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| ▲ | mat_epice an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was excited that I may have been able to help, but I just have issues from volumes 36 and 37... Perhaps this is for the best, as it would have deeply fed my pack rat tendencies. |
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| ▲ | ck2 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| libraries sadly have to destroy old archives all the time but it's not like a lost Doctor Who episode, it will show up eventually meanwhile they can keep eerily predicting dystopia like the government televising executions for entertainment a year before it happens |
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| ▲ | johnnyApplePRNG 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Did somebody steal these magazines or are they just being overly dramatic? |
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| ▲ | jandrese 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm guessing they lost their back issues due to neglect and sometimes tragedy. When people are first starting out they often don't think that in 30 years time they will want a physical copy of their joke periodical and warehouse space is always limited. When budgets get tight it is sometimes the storage bill that has to be cut. | |
| ▲ | sghiassy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Could also just be a joke - never know with the Onion ;) | |
| ▲ | _joel 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | They could have just lost them too, doesn't need to be nefarious. | |
| ▲ | Vaslo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Hard to tell if the onion is trying to be funny? | |
| ▲ | striking an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | It was me. Just wait until they find out which of the 1920s issues I took. |
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| ▲ | mooreds an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Should have posted the direct link with more details about what they are looking for and how to help. That's here: https://theonion.com/archivehunt/ |
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