Bill Introduced As Joke Signed Into Law

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25 Sep 2005, 7:12 pm

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40762

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25 Sep 2005, 7:21 pm

Erm, that's from -The Onion-. The stuff in the Onion isn't actual news, it is -satire-.

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25 Sep 2005, 7:37 pm

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S. 1718, also known as the Preservation Of Public Lands Of America Act, authorized a shift of $138 billion from the federal Medicare fund to a massive landscaping effort that, over the next five years, will transform Yellowstone National Park into a luxury private golf estate.

The hole on the 18th green will be old faithful geyser.

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25 Sep 2005, 8:34 pm

Yupa wrote:

Erm, that's from -The Onion-. The stuff in the Onion isn't actual news, it is -satire-.

Yes, there's also an article about Tiger Woods "endorsing" Alex Rodriguez, and Oprah Winfrey giving away a man to every member of her studio audience.

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25 Sep 2005, 8:42 pm

Gee, funny satire. For a moment I thought it was actually for real; it would be sort of ridiculous if it actually was for real. All the environmentalists extremists would be terrified, then, well, you'd know the rest. People would probably be trying to get ran over by tractors and machinery and what not. Whatever, it's satire, and everyone needs a laugh sometimes. I thought it was pretty funny once I knew it wasn't really going to happen.

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25 Sep 2005, 11:24 pm

I started reading it thinking it was real, but once I got to the part where they actually said what the law was I started thinking "they can't be serious". So I checked the source, and sure enough...

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26 Sep 2005, 12:44 am

Woah... At first I didn't read that it was from http://www.theonion.com! Thanks for the good scare. :lol:

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26 Sep 2005, 2:11 am

great idea - then all the wally politicians and golfers can get steamed into oblivion by the supervolcano - make the clubhouse directly over the caldera, and bob's yer banana!

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26 Sep 2005, 7:13 am

I didn't pick up on the fact that it was satire from the source of the article, stupidly, but the poster did make me think it was.

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06 Oct 2005, 7:52 pm

It is to bad the Washington D.C. doesn't run as good as this joke bill,law did.

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