Tag: parody
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The Vagina Monologues
“The worst puppet show ever!” ~ Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times “Three solid hours of Eve Ensler and her posse…” ~ Noel Coward, famous playwright The Vagina Monologues is the award-winning sequel to the staggeringly popular The Scrotum Soliloquies, and was written especially for the lips not legally kissable in public… except possibly in Amsterdam, the…
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Fake announcer voice
You’ve heard it. Usually it’s late at night, after all the really good radio announcers have gone home; but, if you live in a small town, the voice might be coming from the morning disc jockey, or “the drive home show” guy. Diagnosis Even for the casual listener, the fake announcer voice (or FAV) is…
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Introducing MediaWiki
Introducing MediaWiki. The internet-based collaboration technology[1] that allows journalists, biographers, and other “writing professionals”[2] to fabricate truths[3] with greater ease and under shorter deadlines[4] than ever before. Write What You Know Whether you can’t get your subject to commit to an interview, don’t have enough lead time to do in-depth research, or are just too…
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The Writer’s Almanac
(cue boring piano) (prod comatose host with a long stick) “And here is The Writer’s Almanac… “It’s the birthday of poet Palmer Dinkel, born in Newark, New Jersey in 1929. He fell in love with the poetry of Walt Whitman when he was in high school, then later with the man himself when he ran…
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Embracing Mediocrity
A self help book for losers like you. Unless you didn’t learn to read, in which case you’re probably not reading this now. Through the Curtain You’re fat, you’re pushing forty, and faced with the realization that the boy who once dreamed of becoming an astronaut is no more. A man has taken his place,…
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British Invasion
“We don’t like their sound and ukelele music is on the way out.” ~ Decca Records on rejecting The Beatles in 1962 The British Invasion, more properly known as the Uke (pronounced yoo-kay) or UK Invasion, was an influx of ukelele performers mostly from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States, Australia,…
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Captain’s log
Captain’s log, Stardate: twenty-nine ninety-five plus tax. First Mission The USS Article is on its maiden voyage to the Gulagha System. While the vessel is incomplete at this time, having been pushed out of Stardock prematurely in order for another more important article to begin construction, engineers at Starfleet Headquarters have offered their sincerest assurances…
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (May 25, 1803–January 18, 1873) was a dark and stormy English playwright, novelist, poet, and author of most-high renown, widely honoured and much acclaimed by contemporaries of his age, but also by the adoration of the common man—not simply in celebration of the rare and exceptional nature of…
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The Night After Christmas
Twas the night after Christmas, when all through the house Was an orgy of presents, worth more than… the house; The Xbox was stuffed up the chimney with care, For fear that the repo-man soon would be there; My mind, it was pondering, while laying in bed, A vision of bankruptcy danced in my head;…