Humor: 'Strip Mall Of America'

31 March 2004 - 3:00pm

'The Onion' takes on the strip mall.

"The Onion", a humor web site well known for its news satire takes on the strip mall. "Representatives from the North Dakota Department of Commerce attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday for the new Strip Mall Of America, the state's largest shopping center to date..."

Source: The Onion, March 31, 2004
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