study finds 70 percent of all praise is sarcastic

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05 May 2007, 3:33 pm

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/r ... all_praise

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05 May 2007, 4:39 pm

Oooo smooth move

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05 May 2007, 4:39 pm

What a fantastic study!

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05 May 2007, 4:41 pm

No wonder I hate praise.

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05 May 2007, 4:43 pm

Has anyone seen The Onion book? My favourite is the "Titanic: World's Largest Metaphor for the Social Condition of Mankind, Sinks" story.

It was something like that, anyway.

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05 May 2007, 4:43 pm

Brits might also like to check out The Framley Examiner.

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05 May 2007, 5:30 pm

arent praise and worship the same thing?

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05 May 2007, 5:34 pm

Oooo I am so glad you shared that with us :roll:

just kidding, that was really interesting.

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05 May 2007, 6:52 pm

You all realize it was a joke, right? I've read the onion for a long time, its satire on real news. So if anyone thought it was real, smoothe move, I"m so glad you came

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05 May 2007, 6:57 pm

I knew it! :lol:

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05 May 2007, 8:03 pm

Nice man, I really enjoyed reading that article, no sarcasm implied :roll:

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05 May 2007, 9:04 pm

haha, totally didn't realize that. :lol: But I believed it was real because I am very gullible. :oops:

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05 May 2007, 9:29 pm

I love The Onion. We had to write an essay about one of their articles in AP English, and we all ended up laughing about it for the entire class.

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06 May 2007, 2:05 am

haha, I can tell you, if I hadn't been reading the onion since I was fourteen, I probably would have thought it was real myself. I figured it was appropriate here becuse people here (including myself) have trouble telling the difference between a compliments and sarcasm.

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06 May 2007, 2:28 am

Isn't that lovely.

(pun intended) :wink:

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06 May 2007, 4:46 am

Also 63% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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