Area dropout also poor -- Unexamined life lived -- Childhood trauma mined for cheap laugh -- Wayward teen weighs ways to make waves -- The year's most rejected toast toppings -- Hurriedly collected life savings invested wisely -- Baby loaned -- Masturbation month extended -- Stop put to all this horseplay -- Freak of nature has two jobs -- Lost medium of radio discovered -- Kane: 'I don't know how to run a newspaper' -- Major network buys indie TV pilot in beautiful dream -- Award winning local author inspired, drunk -- Version 2.0 just preview for mind-blowing 2.01 -- Cool kids take on-ramp to information superhighway -- Well-thought-out plan to piss off Oprah thwarted -- Look, area man on TV -- Stalker super nice -- New disease has that 'new disease' smell -- World record set for most expensive copyedit -- Area man makes it in New York, anywhere -- Office internet briefly used for work -- Struggling business banks on public's appetite for reading -- Fiery employee rebellion ends at 5 PM -- Man: 'Busy, work thing'

"In this laugh-out-loud origin story of a world-renowned satirist and "America's Finest News Source," Scott Dikkers treats you to a rollicking trip through the 80s, 90s, and 00s, chronicling the inception, evolution, and success of The Onion from his view at the helm"-- Provided by publisher