Marc Branchaud wrote: > Having read the article I can't help but consider more benign reasons > for its removal...
> 1. It's not funny. > 2. It's jokes are in pretty poor taste. > 3. Michael Bay got his lawyers to send a letter to the Onion. Color me dumb, but when I read the article, I assumed it was an satirical op-ed piece that The Onion had gotten Michael Bay to write for them. Even outrageous humor magazines do not generally fail to distinguish comedy articles written by famous people for the magazine, from parodies written by their own staff writers. If I pick up a copy of "Hustler," for instance, I can tell that a Poem by Charles Bukowski was in fact written by Charles Bukowski, and a liquor ad in which Jerry Falwell celebrates losing his virginity to his mother in an outhouse was not written by Jerry Falwell. If Hustler started publishing its own poems as the work of Charles Bukowski, he would no doubt be displeased, (well, actually he's been dead a long time) but you get my point. Do we actually know that Michael Bay didn't write this article, and have second thoughts about it afterwards? I suppose he probably didn't, and it was dumb of The Onion not to alter the spelling of his name, or do one of the other common things used to alert the reader that parody mode is being entered. I know I'd probably be pissed if I found an article in The Onion being passed off as something I had written, and my inbox started filling up with hate mail from people who didn't know the difference. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
