"The Machine: Will it replace the Chinamen?" The Onion 1905

[sasquatch]

http://www.theonion.com/history/index.php?issue=4121
:rofl:

[Jara sang]

1. "Shit-head" coined

:spray:

[sasquatch]

2. I like "The Scanalous Bathing Customs Of '06."

:D

[Zuni]

4. There is hilarious shit hidden all over that book

on another newspaper from a different year there is an ad "why doesn't your home have a smokestack?"

[Zuni]

3. I have that book--The Onion "Our Dumb Century"

Our Dumb Century is the funniest book ever published! :rofl:

[meegbear]

6. I LOVE that book!

My favorite headline is: "Italy Invades Ethiopia For Some Reason" - never understood it back in school or now.

[Zuni]

8. did you see the whole "KKK has first monster truck rally"

:rofl:

Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1936 mainly because Ethiopia defeated the Italian army in 1899 (I believe) and made Italy the laughing stock among the European colonialists. In 1936, the Italians invaded primarily for national pride reasons, but they still had to use mustard gas on a defenseless population to win. Basically, Mussolini felt having Italy's ass kicked by a third world army was far too embarrassing to bear

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Dude, "Chinamen" is not the preferred nomenclature...

Asian-Americans, please.

[sasquatch]

7. "Walter, this isn't a guy that built the railroads, this is a guy that-

peed on my rug."

[baldguy]

9. "U.S. Steel Grants Supreme Court Judicial Powers"

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[sasquatch]

10. Now in days it's Halliburton though