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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The aviation nerd in me wants everyone to know that's actually a picture of a completely different plane. I'm pretty sure that's a Douglas C-47 Skytrain.

(Sorry I don't have a funny comment to add.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Sometimes useful outweighs funny.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If someone wasn't in the comments saying this, or "that asphalt isn't the right type for La Guardia", or "based on the sky in the background, this is actually somewhere in the southern hemisphere", then I'd be on the wrong website.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It's also clearly CGI.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Thank you for this. It was really bugging the shit out of me. I can't help myself lol.

Me: "Wtf?! That's no Lockheed Electra Model 10! Hoax!"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Next on the agenda: finding the Lindbergh Baby™

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

He was killed the same day he was kidnapped and his body was found about 2.5 months later. He was found 4.5 miles from his home partially buried in the woods.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

92 year old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr was discovered by Onion editors during a weekly staff meeting after secretaries noticed that Lindbergh had been employed by the Onion as an entertainment staff writer for the past four years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fuck I never thought to check the employee org chart

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Hey somebody check for a Hoffa, Jimmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Lindbergh baby has been wandering around La Guardia for decades like Tom Hanks in The Terminal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane Discovered...

Oh shit!

...On Auxiliary Runway At LaGuardia

oh shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I called it in 2009, LaGuardia!

[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Goddamn onion, got me again

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Almost here as well. Opened my mouth but didn't fully commit to the bite.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was just about to bite when I saw the community, had to double check it wasn't c/nottheonion.

Reality is getting too weird now, it's hard to work out if it's an onion or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it's hard to work out if it's an onion or not.

Too many layers of weirdness!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I admit, I ate the onion until "It wasn't under a tarp or anything, we just never thought to check there."