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03-16-2007, 08:42 AM
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The one about his funeral was awesome.
Of course you're going to get all sorts of reactions, and some people won't be happy with you about finding anything about Barbaro to be entertaining. I'm not saying for everyone to get up and move on, but I'm saying that we're going to grow into some really stodgy people if we take every bit of satire as some real social commentary and let it get to us. I don't think the Iraq war is funny, but satire about the Iraq war is some of my favorite....because it's not actually making light of the fact that scores of people are dying over there. It's the point of satire, and much comedy, really. To take things that we shouldn't be laughing at and try to lighten them...because otherwise we become stale, jaded humans. I don't want that. So, thanks for posting this. Ever since I moved out of a place where they had paper copies of the Onion, I tend to not get on their site as often as I should. 
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03-16-2007, 09:00 AM
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i think it's pretty damn funny.
there comes a point when you have to smile about things. so i guess he is now the elvis of racing...coming to a truck stop near you.
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03-16-2007, 09:03 AM
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I love Barbaro and The Onion. I find it funny and at the same time sad. Sad not because of the article per se, just remembering Barbaro.
Kinda strange that Barbaro gets more coverage in The Onion than in a lot of the major press. In one sense you have to give kudos to The Onion for keeping his name out there in their own quirky way. I love the amatuer video that has a circled horse that some say resembles Barbaro. 
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03-16-2007, 09:11 AM
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nice and green everything was in late February in Montana, I guess they dont have winter there
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03-16-2007, 12:07 PM
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Is thought it was pretty damn funny. I agree, you have to laugh about things like this or you will cry. And to be big enough to be mentioned in The Onion is an honor.
The 'face aging software' made me laugh, too... ALostTexan
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03-16-2007, 04:09 PM
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We use humor to hide grief. I thought it was in some parts funny. I think we are still to close it to think it's great humor.
I live just north of Daytona, and when Dale Earnhart wrote his name on the wall, the locals took it pretty seriously. If the Onion were published here, and had done a similar story, not being any sort of NASCAR fan, I would have laughed my ass off. The #3 contingent would have torched the Onion building. Remember when the Challenger blew up? the jokes? 
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