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07-24-2007, 11:39 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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Sad end of an icon
They have announced the end of the printed and online versions of the Weekly World News. No more Bat Boy adventures... no more space alien photo-ops... no more vampire kitten discoveries...
I will miss the good times. They took journalism to the edge--and beyond! Each issue covered stories that other newspapers are afraid to touch.
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Last edited by pdxkevin; 07-24-2007 at 11:40 AM.
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07-24-2007, 01:36 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Gods Country
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Re: Sad end of an icon
Dang! Hopefully our local paper will pick up Ed Anger's column... 
Bat Boy rocks! 
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07-24-2007, 01:39 PM
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Scallywag
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Re: Sad end of an icon
Life will never be the same without weekly/monthly reports/updates on the Dog Faced Boy. 
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07-24-2007, 03:14 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Clackamas, OR
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Re: Sad end of an icon
well it has to be hard on them with all the local and national news covering all there story's:frown: rp
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07-24-2007, 05:29 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Salem
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Re: Sad end of an icon
Say it isn't so! I am so depressed!! The Weekly World News wasn't just a trashy tabloid, it was the cutting edge of alternative literature. Who can forget the lurid prose, the in-depth interviews (Elvis at his fried chicken stand in Barstow; Elvis at his 7-11 in Fargo),the incredible photos, (The Pope With Angel's Wings), and the astounding scientific revelations, (Man Bitten By Chicken Grows Feathers!).
A thousand years from now anthropologists will look at archived copies of WWN and ask, "Were they ALL crazy?"
Now we are going to have to settle for the real news. Fortunately, it's just as bizarre, but not quite as believeable.
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07-25-2007, 04:02 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Troutdale
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Re: Sad end of an icon
So Is Bill Monro looking for a new Job? 
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07-25-2007, 07:19 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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Re: Sad end of an icon
I will mess them... Here's to ya!
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of children's fishing poles.
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07-25-2007, 09:14 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Redd
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Re: Sad end of an icon
I guess FOX news took over their business. Now where are the Men In Black and the pentagon going to get their intel?
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07-25-2007, 11:12 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Philomath
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Re: Sad end of an icon
I've always felt they employed some of the best writers in America.
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07-25-2007, 12:06 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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Re: Sad end of an icon
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chrome Bumper
I guess FOX news took over their business. Now where are the Men In Black and the pentagon going to get their intel?
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Probably over at See-B.S.
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of children's fishing poles.
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07-26-2007, 09:12 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Forest Grove
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Re: Sad end of an icon
Now La Chupa Cabra can finally get the front page it deserves.
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