Especially when you see the headlines outside of the context of “The Onion.” Onion stories are taken for reality more often than you’d believe. Did I ever tell you about the Onion article about Harry Potter that was re-published in a church bulletin? ;-)

Anyway, I don’t think the Onion people care whether or not people can figure out if a story is real or not, I was more comparing my experience to there’s in the ‘oh my gosh, they bought that’ sense. They must get that a lot.

I’d have to disagree, though, I think the vast majority of people who see or hear The Onion’s “news” know it’s fake. Obviously many people knew yours was fake too, but many didn’t know. The Onion is almost always too far out for people to make that mistake.