Talk:Our Dumb Century

This article was nominated for deletion on 13 August 2010 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

Too bad it's not for real. Reading the excerpts on The Onion web page, I thought it was for a while. I was very impressed, thinking this must have been one of the most radical and independent publications of all time. I was quite surprised it was not widely recognized as such. But then it started to look too good to be true and I came here to check...

Too bad what's not for real? The book? Because the book is sitting about three feet away from me right now, and if I'm operating on the assumption that the input of my senses constitutes reality, which is admittedly a big assumption, then I must come to the conclusion that the book is real. Either that or I'm hallucinating it, and have had false memories implanted of me reading it for some inexplicable reason. Or do you mean it's too bad that the events chronicled in the book aren't for real? Well, that would be... interesting, yes. 68.33.44.208 03:03, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think he actually thought that The Onion was actually printed from 1900 through 2000, which in and of itself is _incredibly_ funny!!!!! Family Guy Guy 01:42, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Headline formatting, etc.

So even though this talk page obviously isn't used much, I'm going to ask a question. The headlines in this article are written in all caps, which is obnoxious and incorrect, as far as I'm aware. Even though headlines are sometimes written in all caps in the newspaper itself, I think when they are reproduced they're supposed to be formatted standardly. So does anyone care is I change them to regular? --Natalie 00:09, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're right. Thanks. Go ahead. --Kizor 09:59, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They are titles, though, so should probably have each word capitalized (but not all caps). --Storkk 09:29, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Which, of course, they are already. Don't mind me... --Storkk 09:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Global Tetrahedron

I noticed some of the Tetrahedron "news articles" while reading the book, but never really put them together until I saw this article mention it specifically. Looking through the book, I see it as the Amalgamated Tetrahedron Co. in 1917 (page 19), National Tetrahedron in 1932 (page 43), Global Tetrahedron Multinational Inc. in 1998 (page 163), and Global Tetrahedron Conglomerate in 2000 (page 164). I know I must be missing some, I don't see any mention of it in the first decade, and don't see anything between 1932 and 1998, surely it's mentioned at least once and I'm not noticing? Can anyone direct me to the rest of pages that mention it? 99.148.149.73 (talk) 20:34, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's one in the 1950s regarding an advertisement on the powers of Tritium. Kalmbach (talk) 07:05, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]