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How the Onion Writes Headlines

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The Onion 's writers have a backward way of generating stories: They come up with the headlines first.
The staff devotes the first two days of each week to rejecting headlines like “Quick and Painless Overthrow of Taliban Enters Eighth Year” in favor of “US Continues Quagmire-Building Effort in Afghanistan....

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