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* InOneEarOutTheOther: They ran several stories using this trope, ranging from a man with transparent brain tissue (so one could shine a light in one ear and have it come out the other), to a DumbBlonde woman who discovered someone blowing in her ear would result in a breeze coming out the other side to a dimwitted Californian surfer dude who was cleaning his ear with a q-tip, and "not finding much resistance" decided to see how far it could go (right out the other ear it turns out, which the surfer found "way cool").
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** This was perhaps lampshaded during a "Guess the Fake Story" contest they ran featuring four real 'weird news' articles and one fake.In the description they write "While it's not like us to print a fake story, we're making an exception for our latest crazy contest."
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** This was perhaps lampshaded during a "Guess the Fake Story" contest they ran featuring four real 'weird news' articles and one fake. In the description they write wrote "While it's not like us to print a fake story, we're making an exception for our latest crazy contest."
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'''The ''Weekly World News'' provides examples of:'''
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* PoesLaw: Especially in it's website incarnation. For example, when it declared that Website/{{Facebook}} [[http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/27321/facebook-will-end-on-march-15th/ was going to be shut down]], a lot of people who found the article via a web search and didn't know anything about Weekly World News thought it was real and panicked.
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* PoesLaw: Especially in it's its website incarnation. For example, when it declared that Website/{{Facebook}} [[http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/27321/facebook-will-end-on-march-15th/ was going to be shut down]], a lot of people who found the article via a web search and didn't know anything about Weekly World News thought it was real and panicked.
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* PoesLaw: Especially in it's website incarnation. For example, when it declared that {{Facebook}} [[http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/27321/facebook-will-end-on-march-15th/ was going to be shut down]], a lot of people who found the article via a web search and didn't know anything about Weekly World News thought it was real and panicked.
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* PoesLaw: Especially in it's website incarnation. For example, when it declared that {{Facebook}} Website/{{Facebook}} [[http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/27321/facebook-will-end-on-march-15th/ was going to be shut down]], a lot of people who found the article via a web search and didn't know anything about Weekly World News thought it was real and panicked.
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* CrazyCatLady: Parodied and inverted with a headline of a "Fat Cat Who Owns 23 Old Ladies".
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Trivia note: After the ''NationalEnquirer'' switched to color, its publisher started the ''Weekly World News'' as a way to keep using their old black-and-white presses.
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Trivia note: After the ''NationalEnquirer'' ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers National Enquirer]]'' switched to color, its publisher started the ''Weekly World News'' as a way to keep using their old black-and-white presses.
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Misuse. Lampshaded examples were moved to Lame Pun Reaction.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: One issue headlined an article about [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton President Clinton]] and Senator Edward Kennedy caught soliciting a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]] [[TheOldestProfession prostitute]]. Its title? "BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure".
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* IncrediblyLamePun: One issue headlined an article about [[BillClinton President Clinton]] and Senator Edward Kennedy caught soliciting a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]] [[TheOldestProfession prostitute]]. Its title? "BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure".
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* IncrediblyLamePun: One issue headlined an article about [[BillClinton [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton President Clinton]] and Senator Edward Kennedy caught soliciting a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]] [[TheOldestProfession prostitute]]. Its title? "BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure".
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** This was perhaps lampshaded during a "Guess the Fake Story" contest they ran featuring four real 'weird news' articles and one fake.In the description they write "While it's not like us to print a fake story, we're making an exception for our latest crazy contest."
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** The July 11, 2005 edition ran a story about anime fans slowly morphing into animated anime versions of themselves due to being so obsessed.
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* LuridTalesOfDoom: The entire magazine.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The exec who took over didn't even like being associated with it.
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* StupidJetpackHitler
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* StupidJetpackHitlerStupidJetpackHitler: He was quite the industrious fellow, based on how many stories about him showed up.
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Deleting ZC Es (Can\'t think of any context for them.)
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* FantasyKitchenSink
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* SophisticatedAsHell
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* [=Bigfoot=]BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Almost every issue had at least one story about a sighting, capture or sexual conquest of one or all of them.
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* ElvisLivesElvisLives: The TropeCodifier, if not the TropeMaker.
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'''Bigfoot Saves Baby From Flaming Camper'''
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'''Bigfoot Saves Baby From Flaming Camper'''
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-> '''Bigfoot Saves Baby From Flaming Camper'''
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Trivia note: After the ''NationalEnquirer'' switched to color, its publisher started the ''WeeklyWorldNews'' as a way to keep using their old black-and-white presses.
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Tragically defunct (as of August 2007) American absurdist/parody supermarket tabloid. Published deeply weird, tongue-in-cheek 'news' about bizarre 'science', astrology, {{Atlantis}}, {{Bigfoot}}, aliens, [[ElvisPresley Elvis]], vampires, the Loch Ness Monster etc. Famous for recurring stories about 'Bat Boy', a pop cultural icon that inspired a hit off-Broadway musical.
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Tragically defunct (as of August 2007) American absurdist/parody supermarket tabloid. Published deeply weird, tongue-in-cheek 'news' about bizarre 'science', astrology, {{Atlantis}}, {{Bigfoot}}, {{Bigfoot|SasquatchAndYeti}}, aliens, [[ElvisPresley [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]], vampires, the Loch Ness Monster etc. Famous for recurring stories about 'Bat Boy', a pop cultural icon that inspired a hit off-Broadway musical.
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* {{Bigfoot}}
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* {{Bigfoot}}[=Bigfoot=]
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* {{Kayfabe}}: They ''never'', ever, ever broke character. Ever.
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* {{Kayfabe}}: They ''never'', ever, ever broke character. Ever.character or included a disclaimer that the "newspaper" was a parody, even when publishing stories that could potentially get them sued for libel.
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* TheLavaCavesOfNewYork: One story was about a family on a trip that accidentally drove into an active volcano. They drove around lost before finding an exit as the tube glowed red behind them. It wisely withheld exactly where this family was at the time.
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Planet Eris is beign renamed to World Of Weirdness. Misuse and Zero Context Examples are being removed.
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* PlanetEris - Provides the page picture.
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* AuthorAppeal: A majority of the stories involved either [[PsychicPowers psychics]] or [[AlienInvasion space aliens]] in some way.
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* NegativeContinuity: Among other things, the magazine predicted the end of the world more times than a doomsday cult.
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* EvilMentor: "Dear Dotti", a hilarious EvilCounterpart to Dear Abby, giving advise on taking petty revenge and getting away with cheating, among other things. Or just giving a written TheReadonYouSuckSpeech to anyone confessing to a wrong they committed and asking what to do.
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* EvilMentor: "Dear Dotti", a hilarious EvilCounterpart to Dear Abby, giving advise on taking petty revenge and getting away with cheating, among other things. Or just giving a written TheReadonYouSuckSpeech TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to anyone confessing to a wrong they committed and asking what to do.
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* EvilMentor: "Dear Dotti", a hilarious EvilCounterpart to Dear Abby, giving advise on taking petty revenge and getting away with cheating, among other things. Or just giving a written TheReadonYouSuckSpeech to anyone confessing to a wrong they committed and asking what to do.
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* RuleOfSexy: Sabrina, "America's Sexiest Psychic," did a fortune telling column. She was also kind of their resident PageThreeStunna, she seemed to require a bikini for her job more often than is standard in the news industry.
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It survives as a web site, [[http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/ found here]], and has recently reappeared as a section in the pages of the Sun (US). A ComicBook is planned for 2010.
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It survives as a web site, [[http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/ found here]], and has recently reappeared as a section in the pages of the Sun (US). A ComicBook is planned for was published in 2010.
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* DanBrowned: Of course, it's all part of the parody.
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