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		leoc on Feb 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How ‘Weird Al’ eclipsed most stars he parodied The original authors of /The Onion/ had a dislike of Yankovic which was strangely intense http://www.theonion.com/article/weird-al-yankovic-nears-comp... , even using his parents' tragic death http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/music/2004-04-11-weird-a... as an opportunity to take a shot at his song parodies http://www.theonion.com/article/weird-al-honors-parents-memo... .

petethomas on Feb 19, 2017 [–]

The usatoday link lead to a page that would not render on my mobile device but this latimes link worked http://articles.latimes.com/2004/apr/11/local/me-weirdal11

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