This headline from the London Free Press really does make one gag. Who would have thought that staid old London (Ontario) would have an interest in such shocking gastronomical fare? This is yet another reason why proofing your newspaper on the screen can be so fraught with peril — and in this case, moral outrage.
Human flight (slide one)Inspired by:
Anniversary of Da Vinci’s unsuccessful flying machine test (January 3, 1496).
Well, as your own Sung Tzu said, “All war is deception,†so you’d be foolish to believe anything that I told you.
However, with that caveat, I will tell you that I’m very impressed with you Earthlings, particularly your creativity; it translates into all kinds of incredible things like religion, art and corporate reward programs (and of course, your vast capability for self-deception). So my eventual victory over you puny humans will require that I turn your creative nature to my advantage.
Either that or I may first bombard your cities with massive fruit cakes. Having just experienced my first “Christmasâ€, I cannot imagine a more demoralizing opening move.
Happy holidays to all the regular readers of The Skwib (and those of you dropping by for the first time).
We’ll be taking a break from regular posting over the next ten days to enjoy the song stylings of the disturbingly happy dude to the left but we’ll return in the New Year.
See you January 3rd, 2006!
Welcome all to the 14th Carnival of Satire at The Skwib, and happy holidays! Naturally this week brought out the festive posts as well as some of the usual right-skewing satire, but we’ll start with a few things that bucked the trends:
Tommy at Striving For Average was inspired to Connect the Dots…
Barry Welford at The Other Bloke’s Blog brings us a wonderful, gentle satire from a business perspective in Alice In InternetLand
Don Surber at Don Surber suggests that CBS hires a satire-master in The CBS Evening News With Jon Stewart
LYT at Pererro presents an absurd little piece called Repetition
Tech 100 News has a great holiday-themed post about a Man Caught Hacking into Los Alamos Lab Computer.
Madeleine Begun Kane at Mad Kane’s Notables presents Bill O’Reilly’s Faux War On Christmas Song Parody Continue Reading →
Yesterday there was a fine edition of the Carnival of the Vanities at Ravenwood. Head over for some holiday reading.
There was also an excellent Carnival of Liberty yesterday, hosted by Searchlight Crusade.