Unintended satire
This story from the Sydney Morning Herald reads exactly like an Onion satire. The first two grafs:
Every Friday lunchtime, Gayle Rivkin feels a sense of relief. She knows her husband, Rene, will be spending the weekend at Long Bay Jail -- and it will be her only chance for some respite.
She hasn't enjoyed being with him since the former stockbroker discovered wealth and celebrity in the late 1980s.
What's great about this story is that readers outside Australia have no idea who these people are, and that adds the requisite deadpan irony that is the Onion's stock in trade. (Compare with this piece, which leads:
LOS ANGELES—Due to her friends' actions at, or absences from, her 22nd birthday party at the Three Of Clubs Saturday night, Angela Linton was forced to revise her list of friends Monday.
"Last week, I counted Sheila Miller among my very good friends," Linton said. "But I guess she had something a lot cooler to do on the night of my 22nd birthday. Well, I'm sorry, but if she didn't want to see me Saturday, she doesn't have to see me ever again. She's off the list.")
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