Do You Have Pre-2012 Onion Issues? (theonion.com)
157 points by mooreds 2 hours ago
crtasm an hour ago
>Certain issues of The Onion newspaper are mysteriously missing from our 270-year archive, and you might be able to help us recover them.
twiss 36 minutes ago
I know everything they write is potentially a joke but I got curious when The Onion was founded; apparently it was in 1988, 38 years ago :)
a012 8 minutes ago
It sounds like their archive contains 270 year old contents, not that they’re 270 year old company
twiss 3 minutes ago
mat_epice 28 minutes ago
I was excited that I may have been able to help, but I just have issues from volumes 36 and 37... Perhaps this is for the best, as it would have deeply fed my pack rat tendencies.
johnnyApplePRNG an hour ago
Did somebody steal these magazines or are they just being overly dramatic?
jandrese 4 minutes ago
I'm guessing they lost their back issues due to neglect and sometimes tragedy. When people are first starting out they often don't think that in 30 years time they will want a physical copy of their joke periodical and warehouse space is always limited. When budgets get tight it is sometimes the storage bill that has to be cut.
sghiassy an hour ago
Could also just be a joke - never know with the Onion ;)
_joel an hour ago
They could have just lost them too, doesn't need to be nefarious.
Vaslo 20 minutes ago
Hard to tell if the onion is trying to be funny?
striking an hour ago
It was me. Just wait until they find out which of the 1920s issues I took.
ck2 13 minutes ago
libraries sadly have to destroy old archives all the time
but it's not like a lost Doctor Who episode, it will show up eventually
meanwhile they can keep eerily predicting dystopia like the government televising executions for entertainment a year before it happens
mooreds 29 minutes ago
Should have posted the direct link with more details about what they are looking for and how to help.
That's here: https://theonion.com/archivehunt/
tomhow 5 minutes ago
Updated, thanks!