Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque
Post Number: 48 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 1:40 pm: | |
Anyone see this new $150 improvement? http://www.theonion.com/conten t/news/3_by_4_plot_of_green_sp ace |
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 945 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 1:48 pm: | |
As much as I hate to say it, this is some really funny stuff! It is written quite a bit like the fluff pieces we see often with small developments around here. |
Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque
Post Number: 49 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 1:54 pm: | |
The folks running the Warrendale BLOG are fine with it: http://warrendale.blogspot.com / |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 5157 Registered: 10-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 1:57 pm: | |
I can feel the synergy rising already... |
Melody Member Username: Melody
Post Number: 122 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:04 pm: | |
I LOVE the Onion. They mention (make fun of) Detroit quite a lot actually. That photo doesn't look like Warrendale, though, ha. |
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336
Post Number: 5130 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:08 pm: | |
aren't there a couple of patches like that on grand around the Fisher? |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11614 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:18 pm: | |
I'm sure at least one of their writers has to be from here. There've been pieces in the past that simply couldn't have been written without local insight! (I'd bet if we track that Heller boy down, he'd know who it may be...)
quote:a little green would do our neighborhood good You wonder what green these folks're talking about?! Isn't that 'charming and desirable place to live' actually...San Francisco?! |
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 223 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:20 pm: | |
Another great article: http://www.theonion.com/conten t/node/46937 |
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 1477 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:24 pm: | |
Ugh, I've been on that street. Where is it where is it? Not Warrendale, not Michigan. Is it San Francisco? |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11616 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:24 pm: | |
That's one that I meant! That picture from Brush Park is perfect...too fucking funny, the quote from Kwame M. Kilpatrick. Got to get what you can, while you can. Pretty sure that was also the line from the bigtime promoter brought on mid-movie in Almost Famous. |
Spaceboykelly Member Username: Spaceboykelly
Post Number: 277 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:27 pm: | |
God, I wish Warrendale looked like that. |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11617 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:43 pm: | |
This is more what I'm talkin' about... ...and THIS one is fucking amazing... ...I've MET this fellow... ...sometimes OUCH!... ...but probably my favorite! |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1681 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:46 pm: | |
quote:Ugh, I've been on that street. Where is it where is it? Not Warrendale, not Michigan. Is it San Francisco? It's definitely New York. After looking at the "Sunset Linen" sign, I decided to try Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The place next to it has the address 5807. The street has a median...4th Ave has a median. Try 5807 4th Ave, and it comes back to an address in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I bet I got it. |
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 2671 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 3:06 pm: | |
quote:Ugh, I've been on that street. Where is it where is it? Not Warrendale, not Michigan. Is it San Francisco? I'm pretty sure the first one is Brooklyn as noted by Focusonthed. The second photo (the "after" of the before/after shot) looks like Georgetown, DC. |
Waz Member Username: Waz
Post Number: 267 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 3:14 pm: | |
I definitely agree with your contention that one of the writers is from around here, Gannon. Note the name Lauren Esselman in the 2’nd article you posted - an obvious nod to local author Loren Estleman. |
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 225 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 3:18 pm: | |
This is my personal favorite: http://www.theonion.com/conten t/news_briefs/magglio_ordonez_ placido |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1682 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 3:19 pm: | |
quote:The second photo (the "after" of the before/after shot) looks like Georgetown, DC. I concur. |
Umstucoach Member Username: Umstucoach
Post Number: 157 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 5:25 pm: | |
The Onion uses stock photos for the most part. When talking about college they use a photo of the Natural Sciences Building @ UM. The Onion, by and large, cracks me up. |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 5159 Registered: 10-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 6:48 pm: | |
They moved from Madison after being there since it started in a UW-Madison Lakeside dorm (Tripp?) to NYC fairly recently. They once had (maybe still do) sales offices on about a dozen campuses. Getting stock footage of many places wouldn't be hard. |
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn
Post Number: 105 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 9:44 pm: | |
I have to add this one: http://www.theonion.com/conten t/news/gm_introduces_new_2008_ line_of |
Ericdetfan Member Username: Ericdetfan
Post Number: 256 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 12:07 am: | |
I didn't know warrendale was full of factories..lol..guess i missed something the 18 years i lived there. |
Danindc Member Username: Danindc
Post Number: 3889 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 12:19 am: | |
The photo at the bottom is most definitely Georgetown, DC (M Street at 31st Street). Second door from the left is Mr. Smith's, where Tori Amos used to play piano, and home of half-price burgers on Tuesdays. |
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 535 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 12:41 am: | |
quote:...mechanic Kevin Miles, who was evicted from his tenement apartment after his rent tripled almost overnight. They have tenements in Warrendale? |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11621 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 8:08 am: | |
LOL, thanks Dan! Great link to Ms. Amos back-in-the-day. Must've been one angry room...she's mellowed with age. |
Ericdetfan Member Username: Ericdetfan
Post Number: 257 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 11:08 am: | |
i would love to visit this warrendale, since i guess i have never been there. |
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 1167 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 11:47 am: | |
The Onion is awesome, They treat their writer very well, they give them crack as year end bonuses. |