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[–] darthsid@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goddamn onion, got me again

[–] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost here as well. Opened my mouth but didn't fully commit to the bite.

[–] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was just about to bite when I saw the community, had to double check it wasn't c/nottheonion.

Reality is getting too weird now, it's hard to work out if it's an onion or not.

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's hard to work out if it's an onion or not.

Too many layers of weirdness!

[–] Mint_Raccoon@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The aviation nerd in me wants everyone to know that's actually a picture of a completely different plane. I'm pretty sure that's a Douglas C-47 Skytrain.

(Sorry I don't have a funny comment to add.)

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If someone wasn't in the comments saying this, or "that asphalt isn't the right type for La Guardia", or "based on the sky in the background, this is actually somewhere in the southern hemisphere", then I'd be on the wrong website.

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

It's also clearly CGI.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this. It was really bugging the shit out of me. I can't help myself lol.

Me: "Wtf?! That's no Lockheed Electra Model 10! Hoax!"

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sometimes useful outweighs funny.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Next on the agenda: finding the Lindbergh Baby™

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

92 year old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr was discovered by Onion editors during a weekly staff meeting after secretaries noticed that Lindbergh had been employed by the Onion as an entertainment staff writer for the past four years.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck I never thought to check the employee org chart

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Hey somebody check for a Hoffa, Jimmy.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Lindbergh baby has been wandering around La Guardia for decades like Tom Hanks in The Terminal.

[–] Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

He was killed the same day he was kidnapped and his body was found about 2.5 months later. He was found 4.5 miles from his home partially buried in the woods.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I admit, I ate the onion until "It wasn't under a tarp or anything, we just never thought to check there."

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 7 points 1 year ago

Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane Discovered...

Oh shit!

...On Auxiliary Runway At LaGuardia

oh shit.

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I called it in 2009, LaGuardia!