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We have a supportive Carnival of Satire for you this week, filled with great posts that, unlike the old Sears underwear ad at left, does not airbrush out the naughty bits. Enjoy!

Alejna presents some hilarious punctuation advice to a would-be kidnapper in: more note-writing tips from Ms. Mismanners.

Speaking of punctuation, take a deep breath, and go have a look at this explanation of the Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory Thing posted at The Vanity Press, thanks to Ahistoricality for finding it. Next time send oxygen, commas and semi-colons too!

polliwog asked Bobbarama a pertinent question about why men prefer Briefs versus boxers. General Kang has also weighed in on this important question.

The Skwib has always been an equal opportunity offender, and Madeleine Begun Kane helps keep it that way with pithy poetry: Keeping Abreast Of Bras.

John Wesley is Brainstorming Ways to Get Attention Online.

Plebian has unlocked the The Mother Goose Code. This teaser will give you a sense of what you’ll find there:

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater: This bleak poem discusses how vegetarian Adolf Hitler held an entire world hostage to his mad whims with the imagery of a man forcing his unwilling wife to live in a pumpkin..

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Welcome to the carnival. We’ll get straight to the good stuff:

Websurdity has a theory about the destruction of the Death Star being an inside job.

Plebian goes one better and proposes something that we’ve always needed, a Unified Conspiracy Theory.

Elisson has an alternate theory/future history that explains the new system of ELECTION.

Mime is money baby! Vincent McBurney presents Calling for a Living Statue Code of Conduct.

Madeleine Begun Kane has a political limerick that finally answers questions about Iraq in Merchants Of Hype.

Pistol Pete wonders about Art for Christ’s Sake.

Deepak Jeswal presents Culture Attack.

Damian G. presents It’s not easy being green….

The Epicurean Dealmaker presents Jabberwocky.

TekTak F. Mechanoid presents Point / Counterpoint- Hello, Imus Be Going….

And if you’re worried about the Canadian-US border, The Ominous Comma has news of a Pharmaceutical Troop Surge, that may be of interest.

Thanks to everyone for submitting their satire. 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. Defining that is a moving target, but you’ll find our take on it here, in an essay on Satire’s Ugly Sisters. 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.

Welcome to the Carnival of Satire, now running every other week! (Until it isn’t). To start with, we have some interesting problem-solving on how to deal with climate change:

Yep, Ferdinand T. Cat thinks It’s Time to Do Something About Global Warming and he has a squirrelly solution.

Remulak MoxArgon has a much less nuanced answer in Global Warming: Finally A Final Solution.

Madeleine Begun Kane has a duo of limericks for your edification and entertainment: Running from Mistakes and Chafing At “Chick”.

Speaking of chicks, Lauren at TRA LA LA has pointers for how to deal with Public Enemy Number 1: Girl Scouts.

Ahistoricality has found an template at Spinning Clio for How to Get Historians Riled Up.

Damian G. outlines an elaborate April Fools’ joke in which Congressional Democrats feign patriotism, resolve.

Sammy Benoit is just thrilled that Jimmy Carter New Book (okay, he’s being sarcastic.)

Vox Poplar presents These Things I Believe.

And though this doesn’t come from a blog, this clip from Robot Chicken is hilarious. Watch for the look between Emperor Palpatine’s freaky-looking lackeys when he calls Vader “my favourite Sith.”

Thanks to everyone for submitting their satire. 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. Defining that is a moving target, but you’ll find our take on it here, in an essay on Satire’s Ugly Sisters. 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.

Welcome to the 7oth edition of the Carnival. Two weeks seems to be a better rest period for the satire to pile up, so the next edition will be April 5th. We hope you enjoy the current edition:

How Superman (the one with Christopher Reeves) should have ended. The best part of this parody is the Seinfeld-esque banter between Superman and Batman later in the coffee shop. Hat tip to Bobbarama for this one.

It’s pretty clear that Brian has some kind of superpower himself, because this summary of Heroes based only on the commercials he’s seen is eerily accurate.

Speaking of super, here’s another limerick from Madeleine Begun Kane: Purges and Surges, Twin Scourges, Oh My!.

Tim Abbott has slightly more elevated subject matter for his poem: “The Misplaced Bones of William Dawes”: With Apologies to Longfellow. Continue Reading →

Happy International Woman’s Day and welcome to the Carnival of Satire (the sixty-ninth edition — purely a coincidence). We hope you enjoy it:

Rebecca Newburn has a parody that is not only fun, but educational: Learn about Biodiversity: Bio DaVersity Code presented at Information Age Education.

Rob at Old is the New New has Five For The Gipper an alternate history/satire for the 80s.

Conservathink has news about one of our favourite bugaboos: Greenspan chastised by investors for economically insensitive comments; use of r-word sparks massive sell-off.

From economics to politics: Don Davis at the Satirical Political Report has “The Secret” to a long list of disasters.

Ahistoricality discovered a useful (and extremely f*cking sarcastic) Blogger’s style guide for Civility and Seriousness.

Madeleine Begun Kane reminds us that it’s not only the quaint-British-insult-hurling liberals that have a problem with incivility: Why I Won’t Use What’s-Her-Name’s Name Anymore. Continue Reading →

Whew, we’re full. There’s lots of tasty satire here this week — bitter, sweet, sour and salty. Welcome to The Carnival of Satire, where this week, we start with satlty:

Elisson has food spoofs with Georgia’s Revenge and the dreaded Pizza.

Keeping with the food theme, Ahistoricality found this layered goodness: cooking with the government.

Archer at Lawyerworldland finally explains why NASA has had all those problems with, you know, exploding things.

It’s probably fair to say that many people at NASA would know the elements of the periodic table, but could they present them as entertainingly as Tom Lehrer Does, found by Rebecca Newburn at Information Age Education.

The Language Log has research showing chimps making and using pencils. Thanks to Aloysius for digging this one up.

David wishes us all a Merry ValPatrick’s Ramadanukkah Easterweenmas. We don’t think Dr. Tundra can handle it.

Then again, he could be much worse off. Amanuensis learned about the strange problems besetting fellow feline, in: Darcy in rehab! Continue Reading →