One of these stories is true; the other is from The Onion. Can you guess which one is real and which one is fake?
1. "Giant flying turd escapes Swiss art museum, attacks children's home."
2. "Use of N-word threatens porn star's career."
(Go to extended entry for the answer.)
UPDATE: This has to be the Headline of the Day!
From Agence France Presse:
A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday. The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
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The other really is a headline from The Onion -- I removed the link from the site when I finally got around to watching it myself, and saw that it is extremely crude and doubleplus unsafe for work. I apologize to anyone who watched it and was offended. Still, if you want to see it, go to the Onion site.Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.
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I'm a relatively new reader of Dreher. This post goes a long way to explain where his mind is. I may be going on to be a relatively recent former reader of Dreher.
The other really is a headline from The Onion -- I removed the link from the site when I finally got around to watching it myself, and saw that it is extremely crude and doubleplus unsafe for work.
Onion rule of thumb - review first then decide whether or not to reference it.
aawww, Rod ...
If the Onion clip HAD been SFW, it wouldn't been nearly as funny. The whole joke is about two things: the moral mainstreaming of porn and the ridiculous rituals of racialism, and the humor is the juxtaposition of the heedless hedonism of the former and puritanical moralism on the latter. The iconic moments: the male porn star saying Jennica St. Foxx brought down the image of the whole porn industry ... **while standing there buck naked**; the black co-star Vance Ribald calling her the c-word; the guy in the Oregon sweatshirt saying her words were "filthy and disturbing, but in a bad way."
Victor's roundup of double-standardized and hypocritical folk decrying the porn-star's naughty words in the Onion video reminds me of the Person-on-the-Street Question of the Day-type feature the paper runs - with the exact same photos each time, i.e., the black male professional, the blonde middle-aged housewife, the young white educated female, the college-age dude, &c. Only the names get changed...cracks me up as much the hundredth time as the first.
And how could I forget, from that same Onion "American Voices"
theonion.com/content//topics/American+Voices
cast, the middle-aged white professional guy with the reddish-blond Brussels Griffon-meets Brent Bozell beard? And the East-Asianesque dude?
Also, not just the names, but the occupations get changed each time - but you can't fool us Onion readers!
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