'Parody' Category
Global Dominance
(Inspired by this.)
Birmingham, AL (NOPRWEB) December 2, 2008 — What’s better than soaring to the top of a popular social networking site? How about being at the very top of the entire planet? That’s the envious position The Personal Brander, Ike Pigott, found himself in last month when he entered the Twitter elite. Proving just [...]Painfully Fast
Motrin screwed up with an ad that didn’t resonate well with mothers. I’m not going to get into that kerfuffle which is documented elsewhere with more detail than I care to ponder.
Here’s the ad:Within a couple of days, here is the response:
Funny, but instructive. The tools of quality mockery and parody are now in [...]
The Sub-Prime Primer
Due credit goes to Tim Walker over at Hoover’s Business Insight Zone, for pointing out the need for a sub-prime primer. However, as the parent of a four-year-old and a four-year-old who just inherited an additional $540 billion in bailout this week (on top of the $840 billion that everyone already knew about,) I felt [...]
The Math of Sin
I saw a headline today, referring to the Eliot Spitzer saga:
The Spitzer Scandal: Lust Plus Pride
Then, I recalled seeing this attempt to explain the Seven Deadly Sins (from Jessica Hagy):According to Jessica’s chart, Lust + Pride = Trophy Wife.
So, using the Associative Property of Addition, we can see that:
The Spitzer Scandal = Trophy Wife.
A fun, [...]Help Me Say Goodbye
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Well, [insert year] has been another one of those years. We’ve laughed together, cried together, and huddled together.
Remember [insert mental trigger for funny anecdote]? And then how we [insert anecdote others wish to forget]? Good times, to be sure.
Then we all endured the [insert landmark negative cultural event]. Remember where [...]
