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There's one parody I love and then there's another that's a little mean about me.

This was my Woodrow Wyatt diary; at three words, it is probably the shortest parody I have written...

"It was a parody I was wanting to do – it echoed the way Terry would parody things in popular culture in his writing.

When I ask whether all new and original musicals are somehow doomed to fail – a question in the air again last week following the announced closure of the X Factor parody I Can't Sing – he is brusque.

Just then, it occurs to me that he may have found the parody I published which used some of the actual recycling regulations promulgated by our county in Nova Scotia.

(Indeed, while watching one particularly merciless parody, I was startled when YouTube served up a pop-over ad link for the actual Snuggie — a weird case of a brand sponsoring its own satirist).

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This Heist Parody Is Unlike Any Other Heist Film You've Seen.

Positive ontological arguments—i.e., arguments FOR the existence of god(s)—invariably admit of various kinds of parodies, i.e., parallel arguments which seem at least equally acceptable to non-theists, but which establish absurd or contradictory conclusions.

For example, if you're going to parody a specific newscaster (i.e. Tom Brokaw), make sure the audience knows who you're parodying (i.e. exaggerate his way of speaking).

While "Juiced" strayed past the bounds of self-parody, I think Canseco may have unwittingly written one of the most harrowing portraits of the modern athlete.

Well, because I am a newspaperwoman (reference to His Girl Friday intended as self-parody), I did ask, in as roundabout a way as I could without exhausting my vocabulary: to Al Lockwood, DSEI spokesman, I said "Does nobody have any qualms about the possibility that if this industry were smaller, then fewer people would be killed?" He was far too polite to mind: "I think it's idealistic.

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