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Erik, the BFG ([personal profile] erikred) wrote2005-10-25 08:31 am

Seal of Idiocy

White House sends C&D letter to The Onion over use of Presidential Seal

...there's a certain level at which this makes sense, of course, but c'mon, it's funny.
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[personal profile] tagryn 2005-10-25 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I can kinda understand it, especially if you're getting folks from other countries getting directed to Onion pages without realizing its a comedy site & taking the stuff there for actual news. It shouldn't take much for the Onion folks to just come up with some parody of the Seal and use that...not that that'll solve the problem of folks who don't know what the Seal looks like in the first place & will take any semblance of it to be The Real Thing. Oh well.