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So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion?

227 points • by mooreds • yesterday at 7:43 PM • 30 comments • view on HN

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crtasm • yesterday at 8:23 PM

>Certain issues of The Onion newspaper are mysteriously missing from our 270-year archive, and you might be able to help us recover them.

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analog31 • today at 12:10 AM

Area Man has them.

zahlman • yesterday at 11:16 PM

TIL from mid-2011 to mid-2012 the print edition of The Onion was actually distributed here in Toronto (https://globalnews.ca/news/125698/the-onion-newspaper-coming... ; https://nmc-mic.ca/2012/07/24/star-media-group-suspends-publ...). Seems I missed out :(

vitaflo • yesterday at 11:41 PM

I may actually have some of these. I picked up a bunch of issues in Madison in the early 90's and I'm pretty sure I still have them...somewhere.

mat_epice • yesterday at 9:18 PM

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.

dfxm12 • yesterday at 10:33 PM

TIL The Onion goes back to at least 1988.

Anyway, I'm a big fan of what their new(ish) management has been doing, especially with infowars. I hope they can get the issues they're looking for.

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johnnyApplePRNG • yesterday at 8:37 PM

Did somebody steal these magazines or are they just being overly dramatic?

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ck2 • yesterday at 9:33 PM

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 • yesterday at 9:16 PM

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/

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justuseAIbro • yesterday at 8:33 PM

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