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# CrowdStrike Goes All Onion
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/crowdstrike-goes-all-onion/
- Published: 2024-07-25T12:31:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-30T02:29:25.000Z
- Description: You just can’t make this stuff up.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Miscellany, Trends, Attempted Humor

**Updated:** 11:10 am, July 25, 2024

People of a certain age remember the popular 90s newspaper *The Onion*. For my money, it served up the smartest satire out there. A few of my faves included:

- [Christ Returns to NBA](https://www.theonion.com/christ-returns-to-nba-1819563859?ref=philsimon.com)
- [Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes](https://www.theonion.com/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes-1819564663?ref=philsimon.com)
- [Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia](https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-vowels.html?ref=philsimon.com)

Often, the paper [fooled folks](https://abcnews.go.com/International/times-people-fooled-onion/story?id=31444478&ref=philsimon.com) into believing obviously ridiculous stories. Today, it still lives on as a scathing [website](https://www.theonion.com/?ref=philsimon.com) and [one hell of a book](https://amzn.to/46me9OS?ref=philsimon.com).

[What I Really Want From AIIn the name of all that is holy, can someone please invent a better computer diagnostic tool?![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/icon/newlogo-2-63.png)Phil SimonPhil Simon![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_0896-1-2.JPG)](https://www.philsimon.com/what-i-really-want-from-ai/)

## Simon Says

CrowdStrike’s recent decision to offer clients [$10 gift cards](https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/?ref=philsimon.com) is nothing if not *Onion*\-worthy.

Correction: Looks like this offer only went to "[affected partners](https://www.fastcompany.com/91162328/crowdstrike-offers-10-uber-eats-gift-cards-as-an-apology-for-the-outage?ref=philsimon.com)."