While all the reactions to the jokes prove how gullible a lot of people are, the comments also paint a picture of narrowminded uninformed people that will believe anything. No wonder the Anti-Science groups do so well.

The few times I tried to read the Onion, the articles were not that funny! These ones seem hilarious and I want to read most of them!

The main stream media gets most of their information from The Onion. It's TRUE!

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My parents came over to visit once and my dad picked up a print copy of "The Onion" and started reading. My husband and I didn't say anything and just started watching him... the looks that went across his face were hilarious. We finally bust out laughing and had to tell him the truth...

I still have my copy of issue #3 from when I was at uni in Madison. The headline was to promote a "new board game" called Drunk, Backstabbing Sorority Girls. You had to paste the game, which was two pages in the middle section of the issue, to cardboard and use your own dice. I have it in a plastic sleeve now. Almost all the articles had to do with making fun of stuff on campus back then, and the bottom of most pages were coupons for local shops, but they were only good if you had your UW student ID (and it was recent).

I think one of the main problem is that people just scan down, read the headline, then have an immediate, thoughtless reaction, then move to the next headline. If they are young, they might honestly have never read a satire news site in their life. I have a rule for myself. I am not allowed to react to or comment on any article that I have not actually read. The US would be a different place if we made this the proper etiquette.

They're funny, but some of them are aware it's The Onion and are sarcastic comments. I get The Onion on Facebook and it's fairly common for people to respond with mock sincerity for comic purposes.

Now who is more stupid: people who believed these articles were true, or you who believed people with such responses exist? If you make up a fake article why not making up fake responses?

Funniest story I ever read "Your going to love my balls" was in the Onion.

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I love seeing the sheer supidity - makes me almost proud to be British - and able to able to see right away- the sarcasm and irony. Sign the petition give everyone a second chance now we know what it actually entails. Does anyone remember the Sunday Sport and the "double decker on moon" headline? this would be taken as 100% true in middle America.