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  2. Parody - Wikipedia

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    A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).

  3. LOLCat Bible Translation Project - Wikipedia

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    The LOLCat Bible Translation Project was a wiki-based website set up in July 2007 by Martin Grondin, where editors aim to parody the entire Bible in "LOLspeak", the slang popularized by the LOLcat Internet phenomenon. [1] The project relies on contributors to adapt passages.

  4. The Funniest Joke in the World - Wikipedia

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    The German "translation" (in reality mostly just nonsense words) is used for the first time on 8 July 1944 in the Ardennes, causing German soldiers to fall down dead from laughter: Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! [3]

  5. 'We have harnessed the power of the atom:' Enron parody ...

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    The parody company announced the "historic reveal" of the Enron Egg, "the world's first at-home nuclear reactor," in an X post on Monday.

  6. Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree - Wikipedia

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    The book is also highly regarded for his wide and far-reaching conceptualization of parody. [2] In the book Genette coined the term paratext , which has since become widespread to denote prefaces, introductions, illustrations or other material accompanying the text, or hypotext for the sources of the text.

  7. Intertextuality - Wikipedia

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    James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses bears an intertextual relationship to Homer's Odyssey.. Julia Kristeva coined the term "intertextuality" (intertextualité) [13] in an attempt to synthesize Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics: his study of how signs derive their meaning from the structure of a text (Bakhtin's dialogism); his theory suggests a continual dialogue with other works of literature and ...

  8. Mock-heroic - Wikipedia

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    After the translation of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, English authors began to imitate the inflated language of Romance poetry and narrative to describe misguided or common characters. The most likely genesis for the mock-heroic, as distinct from the picaresque , burlesque , and satirical poem is the comic poem Hudibras (1662–1674 ...

  9. No joke: the Onion parody website buys Alex Jones' Infowars ...

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    NEW YORK (Reuters) -Like a headline lifted from the Onion, the parody news website is buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars in a bankruptcy auction. The Onion said in a statement on ...