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Let’s Play, “Can You Guess Which Headline Is Satire?”

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Today’s challenge:

  • Man Arrested After Ejaculating During TSA Pat-Down
  • Elected Official Says TSA Pat Downs Promote ‘Homosexual Agenda’

Make your guess. Then click here and here to see how you did. Winners get a valuable prize.*

(*Note: There is no valuable prize.)
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20 Responses to “Let’s Play, “Can You Guess Which Headline Is Satire?””

  1. #1 |  the innominate one |  November 30th, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    Neither is satire, would be my guess.

  2. #2 |  Andrew S. |  November 30th, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    If I didn’t already know which one is satire (having seen the article on a satire news site), I wouldn’t have been able to tell.

  3. #3 |  croaker |  November 30th, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    Actually, the first story is somewhat close to reality. Have a poster on flyertalk.com that talked about a TSO going apeshit on an old lady who had stood in line for over an hour for the crotch grope and was slightly incontinent.

  4. #4 |  K9kevlar |  November 30th, 2010 at 11:08 pm

    What is the prize?

  5. #5 |  Drunken Grammaton |  November 30th, 2010 at 11:08 pm

    I hope the second one makes the rounds of the neo-con sites. It’ll be fun to watch them try to decide if they’re more scared of Osama Bin Boogieman or the Fabulous Gay Menace.

  6. #6 |  André |  November 30th, 2010 at 11:09 pm

    Ten bucks says police catch Eugene Delgaudio in an airport bathroom getting Larry Craiged within the next 18 months. Anybody want to take the over?

  7. #7 |  dsmallwood |  November 30th, 2010 at 11:15 pm

    either way i feel dirty
    so i like it

  8. #8 |  Aresen |  November 30th, 2010 at 11:27 pm

    André | November 30th, 2010 at 11:09 pm

    Ten bucks says police catch Eugene Delgaudio in an airport bathroom getting Larry Craiged within the next 18 months. Anybody want to take the over?

    Not by a long shot.

  9. #9 |  GlaDOS |  December 1st, 2010 at 12:51 am

    The cake is a lie

  10. #10 |  B |  December 1st, 2010 at 1:26 am

    A friend of mine pointed me to the first story earlier today. What bothers me is that before I noticed that the site was called “Dead Serious News” was that I found it completely plausible (OK, not so much ejaculating from a pat-down, but being arrested for it…sure!)

  11. #11 |  jb |  December 1st, 2010 at 2:05 am

    The second one. Anti-gay idiots are immune to satire.

  12. #12 |  Dan |  December 1st, 2010 at 2:30 am

    Nothing like a good goose to spread some gander.

  13. #13 |  karl |  December 1st, 2010 at 2:40 am

    The idea that the TSA official might be a practicing authoritarian “secretly getting pleasure from your submission” doesn’t bother him.

  14. #14 |  Elliot |  December 1st, 2010 at 4:35 am

    So the weiner gets what prize?

  15. #15 |  dmoynihan |  December 1st, 2010 at 6:53 am

    I confess, as a retro (book + kindle) pornographer, my first thought on hearing of the new pat-downs was, you know, semi-humorous gay porn novel. I even had an author in mind.

    What stopped me wasn’t so much good taste as the fact that, according to some colleagues, gay men aren’t reading the literature anymore, so I’d like as not fail to recoup even a small advance.

    /However, if that author is really hard-up for cash after xmas…

  16. #16 |  Cyto |  December 1st, 2010 at 9:54 am

    I like this post-beating quote even more:

    “Public release of the video poses an unnecessary security risk to our staff, the inmates entrusted to our care, and ultimately to the public,” the prison company said in a statement.

    Right… because the risk is from seeing the violent conditions you keep your prisoners under, not from the actual violence…..

    From the context provided by the article it seems pretty clear that there is some merit to the claim that the prison guards are using prisoner violence as a means of discipline. The callous nature of the beat-down is horrifying.

  17. #17 |  delta |  December 1st, 2010 at 10:18 am

    Fox News failed this very test the other day:

    http://theinternettoday.net/news/fox-news-publishes-article-from-the-onion-as-real-news-then-removes-it-after-they-are-called-out/

  18. #18 |  Bad Medicine |  December 1st, 2010 at 12:07 pm

    So, let’s have four lines, and people can pick whether they want to be patted down by “Straight Male”, “Straight Female”, “Gay Male”, or “Gay Female”. Problem solved. Get the groping of your choice, and you get to decide whether you and the groper get to enjoy it or not.

    It Gets Better…

  19. #19 |  delta |  December 1st, 2010 at 12:47 pm

    Bad Medicine: Maybe I’m into MTF transexuals who identify as trans-lesbians. Don’t box me with your arbitrary binary categories, man!

  20. #20 |  Boyd Durkin |  December 2nd, 2010 at 12:33 am

    TSA pat downs provide a real downside of me having a horse cock.

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