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Body Count In Superdome Put At 6, Gore Demands Recount
Fortunately the original estimate of the number of deaths in the New Orleans Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina appears to have been greatly overestimated. It had been reported that over 200 dead bodies lay waiting to be claimed by FEMA officials, in actuality the toll appears to be 6.
“This is just the latest example of the Bush administration playing hard and fast with the numbers,” stated President* Al Gore. “I’ve personally spoken to a number of the dead people and they assure me that they are in fact dead. Their pleas are being ignored by the so-called ‘compassionate conservatives’. Feh.”
In an unrelated story, ACME Corporation’s stock shot up 158% earlier today on the news that Wile E. Coyote and his wife are expecting triplets.
* Mr. Gore would only go on the record if he was to be addressed as “President”.
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Wow. That was almost textbook satire, almost like it was plagarised out of the satire handbook. It hurt.
Please stop. At some point, inspiration will bite, you’ll find a cause you actually feel strongly about, and you’ll make great satire. Satire requires you to be angry, and you’re not angry. You’re just finding plotpoints to make jokes about, and the settling for the lowest common denominator on those jokes.
Look into yourself, you can make this site great. This, however, is a pretty good example of “phoning it in”.
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Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … Kerry-180 time!
Ha Ha Ha
I can just hear him saying it now!
“This, however, is a pretty good example of “phoning it in”.”
Can’t say I diagree with you on this point. Definitely not my best work.
“Satire requires you to be angry…”
I completely disagree with that. It does require a passion though. And it’s hard to maintain that every day.
“Look into yourself, you can make this site great.”
Thanks!
I appreciate the honest feedback Brian. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Satire does NOT require one to be angry, and I would bet the person who wrote that has never written a decent satirical piece. Good satire absolutely requires detachment. There is a difference, of course, between ‘anger’ and ‘intensity’. Good writing of any type requires a goodly portion of the latter. Focus. Easier said than done.
Beyond that, satire has to hew to some sort of pattern. It spins outward from a known point of reference - it’s grounded somewhere. That’s the nature of it, and that’s where you actually missed the boat here. You had a good idea but couldn’t find a vehicle to take it anywhere. (Perhaps a better anaolgy is that is has no direction.) Gore counting dead people strikes the wrong note - what’s his motivation for doing it and so on. (The ACME tack-on is inexplicable.)
It is damned hard to crank out great (even decent) satire day after day. Maybe it is not possible. It’s hard enough to write ANYthing well consistently. But I do think it is important to write every day.
As Groucho said in an aside to his film audience: “Well, the jokes can’t all be good you know. You have to expect that once in awhile.”
Sound advice.
Tuesday
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After the rampant cannibalistic frenzy I’m surprised they found 6.
My bad, that was just the MSM attack on FEMA and Bush.
Lunch: 9/28/2005
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* Sean Gleeson answers the question: “Are you one?”
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* The Nose On Your Face says Algore demands a recount….
Recount? Ha ha ha!
I don’t see how you could have phoned it in. With all the dropped calls happening all the time everyone must agree it is a vast conspiracy to silence you forever. I blame Rove. Or maybe Dean. Perhaps Clinton. Ashcroft? Maybe Janet Reno? Could be Bush? Or Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato? Who said cheeseburger with fries? Hold the cheese.
Is Ann still on top?
Ha that is great!
“After the rampant cannibalistic frenzy I’m surprised they found 6.”
Now THAT’s funny. Turns out those cannibals didn’t eat blacks. They are bloggers.
Cranky, your position is safe.
I mean I’m flexible when it comes to Ann ya know.