The Weekly World News will publish its last issue this week. Even The Washington Post gives them a teary farewell. As someone who once participated in the WWN counter-jump to prevent the Chinese from knocking the earth off of its axis (it takes too long to explain, but it was appropriately ironic), I'm sad to see WWN go.
Unfortunately, it really hasn't been that funny for ages. There's a reason why The Weekly World News is going under: they stopped playing it with a straight face. What made it so brilliant was that they would report these gleefully ridiculous stories with a stern AP-style voice. It was great.
Godspeed, Bat-Boy.
1 comment:
I used to love their super-easy crossword puzzles.
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