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July 24, 2007

I Am So Sad About This

A staple of my childhood, a light of my life...is now gone.

Goodbye, Weekly World News. You will be missed very much.

Posted at 10:30 AM in Absurdities |

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AlisonGaylin

Oh, say it isn't so! I never would have known about the Sadam Hussein/Osama bin Laden love affair if it weren't for WWN. Damn.

Posted by: AlisonGaylin | July 24, 2007 at 10:49 AM

Clair Lamb

Goddammit. My lifelong dream of writing for them, shattered.

And who's going to report on spontaneous combustion now?

Posted by: Clair Lamb | July 24, 2007 at 11:28 AM

Bryon Quertermous

For me, the WWN will live on forever in the songs from the official cast album of Bat Boy: The Musical.

Posted by: Bryon Quertermous | July 24, 2007 at 12:25 PM

Cornelia Read

No more Ed Anger and "our little cupcake"?

Drat!

Posted by: Cornelia Read | July 24, 2007 at 01:09 PM

Clea Simon

Where oh where will we get our updates on the World's Fattest Cat? WWN, we will miss you.

Posted by: Clea Simon | July 24, 2007 at 03:06 PM

Clea Simon

Where oh where will we get our updates on the World's Fattest Cat? WWN, we will miss you.

Posted by: Clea Simon | July 24, 2007 at 03:06 PM

Tim Maleeny

Say it ain't so! This is a cultural loss on the scale of the burning of the library of Alexandria...any chance we could lobby for public funding, like for the opera or ballet?

Posted by: Tim Maleeny | July 24, 2007 at 03:18 PM

Keith

I did all my junior high current events assignments from the Weekly World News.

Haven't read it since then, but it was a good source of journalistic nonsense that didn't pretend it was something else.

Posted by: Keith | July 24, 2007 at 03:35 PM

Jeremy

This sucks mightily.

My fav memory of WWN was in a grocery store (of course) at 3am. My friend and I saw the best headline:
FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APPOCOLYPSE SPOTTED OUTSIDE OF TUSCON.

We, along with the cashier and the folks in front of us all seached the copy for the story but...
THERE WAS NO STORY!!

I wish I had bought a copy.

Posted by: Jeremy | July 24, 2007 at 11:11 PM

JDRhoades

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Posted by: JDRhoades | July 24, 2007 at 11:45 PM

Steven Torres

"I wish I had bought a copy."

Jeremy,
Hate to say it, but it's possible - likely even- that buying that copy back then might have saved the paper now. Ah well, how were you to know...

Posted by: Steven Torres | July 25, 2007 at 09:03 AM

Eric Stone

I've still got the Saddam Hussein / Osama Bin Laden love affair on my refrigerator.
Is this yet another signpost on the road to the decline of American civilization, freedom of the press and democracy itself? Are the terrorists winning?

Posted by: Eric Stone | July 25, 2007 at 02:05 PM

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