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diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
index 7821154432..6018af4918 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ recipe_modules = ['recipe_' + r for r in (
            'hindu', 'cincinnati_enquirer', 'physics_world', 'pressonline',
            'la_republica', 'physics_today', 'chicago_tribune', 'e_novine',
            'al_jazeera', 'winsupersite', 'borba', 'courrierinternational',
-           'lamujerdemivida', 'soldiers',
+           'lamujerdemivida', 'soldiers', 'theonion',
           )]
 
 import re, imp, inspect, time, os
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_theonion.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_theonion.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..06f7edd32b
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+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_theonion.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env  python
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
+
+'''
+theonion.com
+'''
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class TheOnion(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title                 = 'The Onion'
+    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
+    description           = "America's finest news source"    
+    oldest_article        = 2    
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+    publisher             = u'Onion, Inc.'
+    category              = u'humor, news, USA'    
+    language              = _('English')
+    no_stylesheets        = True
+    use_embedded_content  = False
+    encoding              = 'utf-8'
+    remove_javascript     = True
+    html2epub_options = 'publisher="' + publisher + '"\ncomments="' + description + '"\ntags="' + category + '"' 
+     
+    html2lrf_options = [
+                          '--comment'       , description
+                        , '--category'      , category
+                        , '--publisher'     , publisher
+                        ]
+
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'main'})]
+    
+    remove_tags = [
+                     dict(name=['object','link','iframe','base'])
+                    ,dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['toolbar_side','graphical_feature','toolbar_bottom']})
+                    ,dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['recent_slider','sidebar','pagination','related_media']})
+                  ]
+
+                            
+    feeds = [
+              (u'Daily'  , u'http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/daily' )
+             ,(u'Sports' , u'http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/sports' )
+            ]