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It's perfect satire.

"It's pure satire.

According to saga, when the Irish poet uttered a satire against his victim, three blisters would appear on the victim's cheek, and he would die of shame.

Satire is dead.

Not just charm, wit and tongue-in-cheek satire but slapstick antics and utter zaniness.

Woodrow Wilson's fatuous claim about the European war of 1914-18 — sannexedcally annexed by Adam Hochschild for the title of this moving and important book — was an object of satire and contempt even as it was being uttered.

Christopher Hitchens, reviewing Adam Hochschild's "To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918" (May 15), describes the phrase attributed to Woodrow Wilson — "the war to end all wars" — as "fatuous" and "an object of satire and contempt even as it was being uttered".

Post-Brexit, the Tory right has been making all sorts of statements that, were they to have been uttered even a year ago, would have seemed like they must be some sort of grim satire.

The utter ridiculousness of those two sentences is an obvious giveaway to anyone attuned to the art of satire that Marbles is actually scolding those dating practices.

Half satire?

"Captain America: utter, utter, utter tosh".

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