T. HERMAN ZWEIBEL

'T. Herman Zweibel' (born September 21, 1868) is the fictional, long-term editor of ''The Onion''. His life and times were recounted in a series of often surreal and bizarre editorials, ending in December 2000, where he was leaving the earth in a rocket-ship. Zweibel returned after a long absence in the January 5, 2005 issue of the newspaper.
The extremely elderly, senile Zweibel has supposedly been writing for the newspaper since the Spanish-American War and has been its editor since 1901, and still feels that Spain is a dangerous threat to the United States.

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Through his prolix columns, which are characterized by his deliberately anachronistic tendency to hyphenate words for no apparent reason, the following facts have been gleaned:

★ He has a strong hatred of modern humanity.

★ He has an uneasy relationship with his manservant Standish, and in his will bequeaths him the name "Ephraim".

★ He lives in fear of "that hideous mechanical ro-bot gentle-man, Mr. Tin," and Black Scarlet, a Robin Hood/Scarlet Pimpernel figure, later revealed to be the late Queen front man Freddie Mercury.

★ He is easily frightened.

★ He lives in a very large estate, and owns much of the land of the local town.

★ He once claimed to have sold the midwestern region of United States to pay off debts.

★ He is protected by a regiment of the Swiss Guard.

★ His last name is very similar to ''Zwiebel'', the German word for ''onion''.

★ He is the mortal enemy of ''Brickton Atlas-Trumpet'' editor P. Oliver Gummidge.

★ He also pens plays, and refers to himself as a "robber baron and plutocrat."

★ He suffers from myriad diseases, and enjoys daily enemas.

★ He has a crush on Lillian Gish.

★ He names his sons with an initial and an archaic second name, such as N. Aeschylus, M. Prescott and U. Thaddeus.

External links

★ The T. Herman Zweibel Memorial Historical Archive