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Wow, did the nuts ever pile up around here this week! Like a squirrel preparing for the winter, we were kept hopping sorting through all the tasty satire. There is quite a lot of it to entertain, enrage and embarrass you in this 85th edition. Enjoy!

Madeleine Begun Kane presents poesy in a light shade of red: Not Tickled Pink About Girlish Pink Guns. It’s worse than she thinks: it is also one of the Forty-Seven Signs of the Apocalypse.

I’m still not sure how Gavin R. Putland got overlooked for the Nobel in Economics (or whatever it’s actually called). This proposal for Cap-and-trade blog licensing is brilliant.

You know, you wouldn’t guess it, but Lolcats have been around since the middle ages.

Bree Barton does more than perform well, she engages us in a tail of definite articles with Pee Post â„¢: The Legacy .

Sammy Benoit has a list of creative interrogation techniques not to be missed: Whitehouse Announces Change in Torture Methods. At least we’re all at least calling it torture now.

lordsomber has a hilarious review of the Brew of the Day: Caffè de Gallina di Cacao.

Lord Bonkers is celebrating the fight against slavery in Rutland as only an Edwardian peer can.

Just set it, and forget it! AdamF has the secrets for How To Create A Late Night Infomercial.

Rickey Henderson delves into the terrifying Halloween tradition of making a Jack-o-lantern Fun With Arts & Crafts.

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Second Anniversary Edition

Well, we’ve been doing this satire thing for two years officially, and to celebrate, we’ve got a wonderful collection of satire from some regular contributors and some new faces. We hope you enjoy the full frontal irony.

Grantmx from Maize Break (Africa’s Most Outstanding, ie. satirical, Source for News and Information) has a heartwarming story about how some Sudanese Women Welcomed Female US Prison Inmates into their lives.

Ravi Vora has an excellent (Marvel-heavy) collection of Comic Book Characters and Their Real Life Enemies.

We found this video of Conan O’Brien touring Industrial Light and Magic to be hilarious, mostly for his impersonation of C3PO drunk.

Unfortunately, mental_floss rejected this submission from Matt Robison, but their loss is our gain: 5 Tips: How to Read the Bible the RIGHT Way – MY Way.

Madeleine Begun Kane finds a use for all that annoying spam: turning it into Haiku. I especially liked:

Large screen DVD.
Is your husband performing?
Big trading alert.

Did we mention this was our second anniversary? We even managed to find a corporate sponsor, Taco Bell, who wanted us to pitch their new E-Colita (You’ll want to check out more of Vinchen’s environmental art here.)

We choose to believe that The Free Geek’s Ultimate Guide to Freeloading is satire. Of course, there was no trackback option at this blog, so maybe they’re serious.

Rickey Henderson has another series of Recommendations, in which he reminds us of Ned Flanders’ cider-spotting prowess: “If it’s clear and yella’, you’ve got juice there, fella. If it’s tangy and brown, you’re in cider town!”.

The Wrestling Professor discovered that Sean Sherk Tested Positive for Baby Food. After reading the story, we were somewhat disappointed that it was actual baby food, not food made out of babies. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is definitely losing its edge.
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An alert reader let us know that this edition of the carnival is not exactly our anniversary, so the big shindig will be in two weeks, when we will celebrate two years! For now, enjoy a soupçon of satire:

Bobbarama has been reading. He’s managed 61 of the 1001 books you should read before you die. You can find out what he finished in Book, chapter and verse, plus, a few books he thinks should be on the list, such as: A Field Guide to Cows: How to Identify and Appreciate America’s 52 Breeds.

Cue the segue:

More cowbell! Conservathink has critical Walken-related news, as the actor denies using tap dancing skills to solicit gay restroom sex.

Madeleine Begun Kane is feeling the pain of Mustachioed Men — Downtrodden Minority Group? Or perhaps it’s just that they’re scratching her face?

We interrupt the carnival to bring you this important message from Joe about the wonders of Faceaway® Anti-Aging Spackle Cream.

Robert Bruce Carter landed an Exclusive Interview with Rudy Giuliani over at Absolutely Serious. (They’re not.)

Now, speaking of apocalyptic personalities, Darcy Xenophon has learned more about how the Squirrel of doom spreads like virus.

And to end the carnival this week, SnoopyTheGoon at SimplyJews presents: That righteous indignation.

Thanks to everyone for continuing to make this a great carnival. If you submitted something, and it didn’t make it into the carnival, it’s not that we don’t appreciate your work, but we just felt it wasn’t right for the carnival. In fact many submissions were quite funny/interesting/entertaining, but not really satire. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, and at the Blog Carnival too. Thanks to Marcel as well.

In this week’s carnival, we ask a lot of questions; the answers, be warned, may disturb you. And if you’re wondering, when is the next carnival, then you’ll want to know it will be in two weeks. Despite the odd number, it will mark the two-year anniversary of the Carnival of Satire. If you weren’t wondering that, you’ve probably started reading the next paragraph, and you’ll miss this important information: in the coming squirrel apocalypse, the safe word is “walnut cluster.”

We’re including this Japanese animation called The Butt-Biting Bug, [YouTube clip] confident that we will eventually discover that is some kind of masterful spoof of Japanese animation. If not, well, it’s still funny (and mighty puzzling).

Speaking of butts, Mad Kane has posterior poetry with: No Butt Cams For Me — No Ifs, Ands, Or Buts.

On the other end of the GIT, Rickey Henderson has some questions when he Reviews Odd Food Left in the Second Floor Staff Kitchen . I don’t know, this looks like something that might even intimidate Ross.

Darcy Xenophon at Catymology has more warnings from the dangerous black squirrel rebellion: Squirrel cults on my thingpoddy.

In addition to the coming squirrel apocalypse, we should also be concerned about marauding bands of turban wearing IT personnel — at least that’s according to Samir Bharadwaj and his advice on How to Start a Conversation with an Urban Indian.

Sammy Benoit wonders Why Don’t We All Call God—Bob?.

Scott Killen is more concerned with why Americans can’t point to the US on maps — is it because the country is in stealth mode?

Alexei wonders if a picture of a Shirtless Putin Will Spark World War 3.

Super Saver asks Who Ya Gonna Call? – CreditBusters!

And sometimes even movie stars have money problems. This isn’t really satire, but Will Ferrel is very funny in this clip presented by Michael Chu: Pay The Rent Now.

And to take us out on a musical note, the publisher of The Amadeus Net was kind enough to point out this video on how to get more kids to read. [This YouTube clip is definitely not safe for work.]

Thanks to everyone for continuing to make this a great carnival. If you submitted something, and it didn’t make it into the carnival, it’s not that we don’t appreciate your work, but we just felt it wasn’t right for the carnival. In fact many submissions were quite funny/interesting/entertaining, but not really satire. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, and at the Blog Carnival too. Squirrel photo by mandj98.

This week’s Carnival of Satire covers a lot of territory, and most of the important issues of our day, really: politics, beards, global warming, squirrels, issues of finance, and robots of course. You always have to be worried about what the robots are up to. We had a lot of submissions for the 81st edition, so we’ll have an extra COS next week:

Gavin R. Putland has John W. Howard’s Flowchart for Political Success. Gavin rightly points out that while this isn’t satire, it accurately demonstrates how sometimes life is more absurd than satire.

Then again… Rickey Henderson reminds us all of adventurers such as Ernest “Almost” Shackleton and Robert “Frozen on the Spot” Scott in his Beard Watch 2007 Update.

Aloysius is rightly concerned about the Black squirrel cult invasion of Minneapolis. As anyone who has read John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise will recognize, this means the return of the hoboes. But are the squirrels black enough?

Ahem. Alexei finally reveals the identity of Obama’s Nemesis. (Not squirrels, but he should be concerned about them.)

Then there’s the nemesis of Bush II, as provided by Xco (not a robot), as he answers a question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

We note with interest that Blue Skelton has a sent an open letter to Mr. Apocalypse. Clearly, he has been watching for the Forty-Seven Signs.

We’re glad the Yid with a Lid isn’t a terrorist, because his post: If I Was a Terrorist this is what I’d do is terrifying.

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From the Beijing Olympics, to Russian interference at the North Pole, this Carnival of Satire has an international flavor, and speaking of flavor, we begin with a hilarious review of The Food Network from Riding with Rickey.

Conservathink has disturbing, less-than-jolly breaking news: Following Russian claim of Arctic sea bed, Santa Claus falls ill; President Putin denies culpability.

We’re a year away from the Olympics in China, and Madeleine Begun Kane has The Real Poop on Chinese exports.

You can find a few of our own satirical take on the next Summer Olympics in our Beijing Olympic mascot series for new Chinese demonstration “sports”: Tibetan Dissident Bi-athalon, Organ Relay, Hu Flung Falun Gong? (pictured at left), Forced Sterilization Footy and Press Clubbing.

Speaking of atrocities, Hurty Elbow examines the issue of photo retouching in the magazine industry, with this Redbook cover (if Redbook and retouching had been around during the time daVinci painted Mona Lisa). Continue Reading →