Satire Satire A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a satirical pamphlet written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The work has now become one of the epitomes of satire, and the modern phrase "A modest proposal" derives from the work. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Modest Proposal"
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, having been composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. It is likely his most difficult satire, and possibly his most masterful. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided up into sections of " digression" and "tale." The "tale" presents a consistent satire of religious excess, while the digressions are a series of parodies of contemporary writing in literature, politics, theology, Biblical exegesis, and medicine. The overarching parody is of enthusiasm, pride, and credulity. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Tale of a Tub"
Avenue Q is a Broadway musical. It opened off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in March 2003 (where it won that season's Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical), and it has been on Broadway at the Golden Theatre since July 31, 2003. It has risqué songs about racism, Internet porn, and the difficulties of life, and all but three characters are portrayed by puppets. It won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical as well as Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Book of a Musical, defeating the much bigger-scale musical of the season, Wicked. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avenue Q"
The term Axis of Medieval was coined by activists as a parody of the phrase " Axis of Evil." Critics of the policies of George W. Bush use the term, half jokingly, to describe efforts used by the United States to insert a " conservative" political agenda into negotiations to draft international treaties for humanitarian causes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Axis of medieval"
Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. It played in Britain's West End and on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beyond the Fringe"
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) is a tongue-in-cheek contest that takes place annually and is sponsored by the English Department of San José State University in San Jose, California. Entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels", i.e., deliberately bad. A prize of US$250 is awarded. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest"
Burlesque was originally a form of art that mocked by imitation, referring to everything from comic sketches to dance routines and usually lampooning the social attitudes of the upper classes. It was often ridiculous in that it imitated several styles, and combined imitations of authors and artists with absurd descriptions. In this, the term was often used interchangeably with " pastiche," " parody," and, at the turn of the 18th century, " mock-heroic." Possibly due to historical social tensions between the upper classes and lower classes of society, much of the humor and entertainment focused on lowbrow and ribald subjects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burlesque" My www.shortopedia.com and me.
"A cactolith is a quasihorizontal chonolith composed of anastomosing ductoliths whose distal ends curl like a harpolith, thin like a sphenolith, or bulge discordantly like an akmolith or ethmolith." ...more on Wikipedia about "Cactolith"
The Candlemakers' petition is a well known satire of protectionism written and published in 1845 by the economist Frédéric Bastiat, in which candlemakers and industrialists from other parts of the lighting industry petition the Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic to protect their trade from the unfair competition of a foreign power: the Sun. ...more on Wikipedia about "Candlemakers' petition"
Chrismahanukwanzakah (sometimes spelt Chrismahanakwanzaka, Chrismahanakwanza ...more on Wikipedia about "Chrismahanukwanzakah"
(Chrononhotonthologos) Chrononhonthologos is a satirical play by the English poet and songwriter Henry Carey from 1734. Although the play has been seen as nonsense verse, it was also seen and celebrated at the time as a satire on Robert Walpole and Queen Caroline, wife of George II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chrononhotonthologos"
The Dragon of Wantley is a 17th century satirical verse parody about a dragon and a brave knight. It was included in Thomas Percy's 1767 Reliques of Ancient Poetry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dragon of Wantley"
Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released on January 29, 1996 by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem, based on a character that had appeared in earlier platform games by the company: Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Duke Nukem 3D"
Elizabeth Hamilton ( July 25, 1758 - 1816), wrote The Cottagers of Glenburnie, a ...more on Wikipedia about "Elizabeth Hamilton"
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Norm MacDonald was probably the first to use the term "fake news" in popular culture; the phrase was part of his lead-in when hosting Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live. Since then, it has often been used to describe news satire. Jon Stewart of the Daily Show often uses the phrase "fake news" to describe what he does as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fake news"
The Foot in Mouth award is awarded each year by the British Plain English Campaign for "a baffling quote [sic] by a public figure". ...more on Wikipedia about "Foot in Mouth award"
GandhiCon is a concept in hacker culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "GandhiCon"
Glumdalclitch is the name of Gulliver's "nurse" in Book II of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. In Book I, Gulliver travels to the land of Lilliput. Leaving there, he travels to the land of Brobdingnag. In Lilliput, Gulliver was a giant, and in Brobdingnag, he is a dwarf, with the proportions reversed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glumdalclitch"
God Spede the Plough is the name of an early sixteenth-century manuscript text that borrows twelves stanzas from Chaucer's Monk's Tale. It is a short, satirical complaint listing all the parasitic clergy who are going to demand a piece of the plowman's harvest, rendering his work futile. Perhaps there is an allusion to 1 Corinthians 9:10--"...when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing the harvest." Ironically this verse is used by St. Paul in an argument for his (and other apostles') right to have his food and other basic needs supplied by the laity of the early church. The poem also despises taxation and issues the same sort of complaint as that found in the Second Shepherds' Play. ...more on Wikipedia about "God Spede the Plow"
HumorFeed is a website founded in 2003 by a group of around 20 news satire webmasters. It displays headlines submitted by its members in a list generated daily in an RSS feed which many members also include on their own sites. At present it includes over 60 members and is one of the fastest-growing satire news hubs on the web. ...more on Wikipedia about "HumorFeed"
Ignoramus is a college farce by George Ruggle ( 1575 - 1622) based on an Italian comedy by Della Porta. It was written and produced in Clare College, Cambridge in 1615 for James I of England. The play satirizes the college recorder, Brackyn, who is represented as the Ignoramus of the title. He is given a romance of false loves, where he is enamored of Rosabella but is tricked into being with the mannish Polla. Like Malvolio, who is supposed mad, he is suspected of being possessed and put through an exorcism before being carried off to a monastery to recuperate (and to stay away from the loves of the more worthy wits). ...more on Wikipedia about "Ignoramus"
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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (abbr. IOCCC) is a ...more on Wikipedia about "International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
The International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest, or IORCC, is a contest centered around the programming language Ruby, with the objective being to write the most obfuscated program possible that still performs a useful task. ...more on Wikipedia about "International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest"
Jack Upland or Jack up Lande (ca. 1389-96?) is polemical (probably Lollard) and can be seen as a "sequel" to Piers Plowman with Antichrist attacking Christians through corrupt confession. Jack asks a "flattering friar" (cf. Piers Plowmans "Friar Flatterer") nearly seventy questions that attack the mendicant orders and expose their distance from scriptural truth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jack Upland"
Kozma Prutkov ( ) is a fictional author invented by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers - Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander during the later part of Nicholas I of Russia's authoritarian reign. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kozma Prutkov" Things Go Better with http://www.shortopedia.com. shortopedia
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