We’re starting a new occasional feature here on Buzzblog called “The Onion or The Times,” because, well, sometimes the news is just so gosh, darn funny … and The Onion is always so gosh, darn funny. Rules are simple: Read the following passage and offer your best guess as to whether it was posted on the Web’s premier faux news site or the world’s newspaper of record (wise guys all together now: “What’s the difference?”):
The dinner was first-class, with butlers serving hors d’oeuvres and the strains of “Blue Danube” tastefully muffling the festive din. This nine-course re-creation of the last supper aboard an ill-fated ocean liner was the culmination of Titanic Day at Laurel Hill Cemetery, one of a growing number of historic cemeteries to rebrand themselves as destination necropolises for weekend tourists.
Historic cemeteries, desperate for money to pay for badly needed restorations, are reaching out to the public in ever more unusual ways, with dog parades, bird-watching lectures, Sunday jazz concerts, brunches with star chefs, Halloween parties in the crematory and even a nudie calendar.
Oh, admit it, you had this one pegged as The Times right up until that last bit about the nudie calendar when you started to get that tear in your eye that can only come from The Onion.
Not sure? Here’s the answer.
