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Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane Discovered On Auxiliary Runway At LaGuardia (www.theonion.com)
submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/theonion@midwest.social
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[–] darthsid@lemmy.world 77 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Goddamn onion, got me again

[–] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 6 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

It's also clearly CGI.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Sometimes useful outweighs funny.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Next on the agenda: finding the Lindbergh Baby™

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

Fuck I never thought to check the employee org chart

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Hey somebody check for a Hoffa, Jimmy.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

Oh shit!

...On Auxiliary Runway At LaGuardia

oh shit.

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I called it in 2009, LaGuardia!