{"id":1768,"date":"2008-04-01T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2010-02-11T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T20:52:19","slug":"presenting-the-naked-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/presenting-the-naked-loon\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting The Naked Loon: Your New Favorite Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behold, I bring you parody<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
\nGo to The Naked Loon. Right now.<\/a><\/p>\n

The greater* Puget Sound region now has a new source for… um… news, yeah that’s it, “news.”<\/p>\n

It’s The Naked Loon<\/a><\/strong>, and it’s the latest project to come out of the Thatch Mound Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what some of our beta testers had to say about The Naked Loon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Almost Live” meets “The Onion.”
\n– Chuck<\/p>\n

The Naked Loon is better than a kick in the pants! Oh wait, no… no, it’s not.
\n– Pete<\/p>\n

The Naked Loon is the worst website in the world. I beg of you, don’t waste your time!
\n– J.R.<\/p>\n

Libel. The Naked Loon is nothing but vicious, vicious libel. They will be hearing from my lawyers.
\n– Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay, I may<\/em> have made one of those up.<\/p>\n

But seriously, I’m pretty pleased with what I’ve created in The Naked Loon<\/a>, and I think you’re really going to enjoy it. It’s a website you can tell your friends about without starting an argument about equity and home prices and all that rot.<\/p>\n

For those of you with dirty, dirty minds, I would like to clarify something. Despite the promise alluded to in the site’s name, everything on The Naked Loon<\/a> is 100% work-safe, and appropriate for general audiences. However, if you are behind a soulless corporate firewall that blocks sites just for having cool words like “naked” in the URL, we have a solution just for you: The [CENSORED] Loon<\/a>. It’s the same site, just de-naked-ified.<\/p>\n

Everybody loves parody, right? Except for humorless jerks. But really, who cares what they think? So anyway, go check out The Naked Loon<\/a>. Your life may depend on it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

*(As in, greater than anywhere<\/em> else.)<\/span><\/p>\n

P.S. (This is not an April Fool’s joke. The Naked Loon<\/a> is real, and it is awesome<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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