Valentine's Day 2009
Area Hack Copies TheOnion.com
FEBRUARY 14, 2009 | ISSUE 1
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MONTREAL, QC— French-Canadian self-proclaimed web "master" -PoX- — who created
a dubious comedic web page last year— has stooped to a new low today by outright copying
popular comedy website TheOnion.com
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"Yeah so what?" proclaimed the dirty bastard as he typed away on
his keyboard, writing a parody piece for his page that imitates not only the content but
also the layout of any article you would find on TheOnion.com
For years, TheOnion has entertained America with its fake news stories ridiculing everything
from homosexuals and NASA to obesity and presidents. Usually well-written and without
spelling mistaikes, the mockticles have become famous around the internet and have even
spawned a straight-to-DVD movie that did quite well in the few Wal-Mart bargain bins which
featured it.
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| "I don't know what he was thinking", remarked made-up Onion staffer. "Who does he think
he's fooling anyway? The article doesn't even have its own page! It's just like everything else he put on his
site, except for this tiny section in the middle where he copied the layout from our site! Ridiculous!" |
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While no one actually reads his website, -PoX- updates his monstruosity
approximately once per week in a vain attempt at achieving some semblance of internet fame, a goal which Frank Rimsky,
night janitor at a failing truck stop, calls "Pathetic".
Prior to this daring act of intellectual vandalism, the miscreant's most notable deeds included eating
a paltry 6 1/2 McDonald's Hamburgers and making a list of 500 songs he seems to think people want
to hear. No dbout he made his feeble attempt at parroting the more respected humor site in the hope of lulling reader's
sense of criticism to a gentle sleep while shoving his rancid tripe down their throats.
"What are you talking about? No one from TheOnion is ever going to read this shit!" said the thief, trying to defend his
shameful deception."Seriously, I'm making everything up. It's not like someone is actually interviewing me to write
an article."
Wether or not this explanation will hold up in court remains to be seen.
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Perhaps one reason why thepoxbox.com has not had any success and thus has forced the owner to take such a risk is because it
is composed of hastily assembled material permeated by the lazyness and the incompetence of their creator. Take this
page for example. You will notice that every link that is normally clickable on TheOnion.com
has been replaced with cheap screenshots thrown together in a minute or two using a copy of Photoshop which may or may not be
legal.
"How can you know that? The article isn't even up yet! I'm still writing it! Wait this is starting to get weird..."
Branching into some sort of snobby post-modernism, -PoX- hopes to confuse duller readers just long enough to make his escape
on a bramble raft on which he'll attempt to cross the St-Lawrence river to reach what he thinks is Portugal.
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