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Aliens, Elvis, Bat Boy mourn death of Weekly World News
Miami Herald ^
| August 26, 2007
| LARRY LEBOWITZ
Posted on 08/26/2007 9:31:11 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The Weekly World News is dead, and in the words of its ripsnorting right-wing columnist Ed Anger, the tabloid's dwindling legion of fans should be ''pig-biting mad'' about it.
Based for most of its 28 years in Palm Beach County, the Weekly World News delivered the guiltiest of pleasures with wheelbarrows of wit, screaming headlines and a black-and-white design sensibility straight out of 1952.
Depending on your perspective, the WWN gloriously chronicled or shamelessly fabricated an alternate reality populated by amorous space aliens, babies born with angel wings and gardeners who marry their vegetables.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: anger; batboy; callingartbell; edanger; newspapers; publication; tabloid; weeklyworldnews
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The last line of the article: In the immortal words of Ed Anger, devoted readers should be madder than ''Michael Jackson at an all-girl slumber party. :-)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
They had the funniest cover about a year ago. I wish I’d bought it. It was cats on Mars. (or Saturn, or Jupiter, I forget) Anyways is was cats roaming around on what looked like the moon. Hysterical.
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:34:28 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
How will we ever know what Elvis is up to these days ... and what of JFK?
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:34:31 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
There are some stories the MSM choose not to investigate.
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:38:30 AM PDT
by
OCC
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Clontz, who died in 2004, legendarily instructed his reporters to stay out of the way, let the sources tell the story: ''You've got to know when to stop asking questions.'' If a guy called in and said Bigfoot stole his wife, then Bigfoot stole his wife. Why fact-check your way out of that one? LOL!!! The Weekly World News was an American institution. It is going to be sorely missed.
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:39:51 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
This paper was indeed a jewel. I actually subscribed to it.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
...and gardeners who marry their vegetables
The way things are going, the Weekly World News was almost prophetic.
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:41:00 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
How the heck will they get their information now?
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:41:38 AM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: SkyDancer
How will we ever know what Elvis is up to these days ... and what of JFK? Not to mention who the Space Alien will endorse for president in 2008.
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:42:27 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Save Fredericks-burg. Support CVBT.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I remember this one. If I was in line at the grocery another two minutes, I would have bought it.
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:42:28 AM PDT
by
OCC
To: OCC
South Park fans will understand:
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Serves ‘em right.
They had no respect for my privacy AND spelled my name wrong (see profile).
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:44:32 AM PDT
by
Peelod
(I do renounce Hillary! and all her pomps and works.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I remember one headline from the late 50's:
Cop is shot in throat, spits out bullet.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:46:37 AM PDT
by
OCC
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
It was a cracked universe where Elvis still lives, Bigfoot could steal your wife, the face of Satan appears in clouds over New York City and the U.S. military deploys Bat Boy, with his superior cave-manuevering skills, to ``take a bite out of Bin Laden.''Actually, I believe the Evil One appeared in the sky over Chicago... at least on an issue that made me laugh so hard I actually purchased it. (Then again, I heard Lucifer gets around...)
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:50:47 AM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
It was a cracked universe where Elvis still lives, Bigfoot could steal your wife, the face of Satan appears in clouds over New York City and the U.S. military deploys Bat Boy, with his superior cave-manuevering skills, to ``take a bite out of Bin Laden.'' I always knew that Bat Boy was on our side!
A copy of WWN would occasionally end up on our aircraft for a long mission. It made for fun reading, and we had to keep up with the exploits of Bat Boy. Yes, WWN has been read in the skies over Afghanistan.
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:52:01 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(More fun than a beer left in the freezer.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan; martin_fierro
Proud EX-contract-employee here (early 80’s)!
I was way too evil for the WWN! :-)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
My favorite headline came from from the National Enquirer around 1970:
Warm-Hearted Couple adopt 60 year old Retarded Dwarf
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posted on
08/26/2007 9:53:19 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
Warm-Hearted Couple adopt 60 year old Retarded DwarfSee, that is the stuff that bothers me. How dare they use politically incorrect and insensitive words like that?! I mean come on, "warm-hearted." Enough already! :-)
To: billorites
My favorite was WOMAN EATEN BY FUR COAT.
Is this the paper that had Rush meeting the aliens, I wonder.
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