One of my first favorite websites was The Onion. It had to be 1997 or 1998 when a coworker pointed me in the direction the satirical news site. It quickly became one of my go to internet stops. I even remember how excited I was to find a copy of the paper version at the bookstore once. All these years later I still visit regulatory. The tone of The Onion's humor is right in my wheelhouse. It can go from just plain silly to biting social commentary.

The style of The Onion is a parody of a news site (or as it started, a parody of a newspaper). So, the fake, satirical, joke stories are all formatted and written in a news style. The writers usually choose a place in the world to set the stories, and Sioux Falls has been lucky (?) enough to be picked a few times over the years.

And a reminder to all the aunts and uncles out there: none of these are true or real news stories. It's all fake. It's comedy.