Carnival of Satire

Here it is, finally. The long-delayed 107th edition of the Carnival of Satire. Many of the submissions in October revolved around the US election, and they’re a bit dated, so I haven’t included them. My apologies. On the plus side, there is some mighty entertaining stuff left for those of us who are eating turkey today, and those who are just feeling like one.

As you may know, November is National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), in which masochistic writers attempt to pen 50,000 words of a novel. I am one of them. As I gobble for the finish line, I sometimes wonder what I’m running towards, and Paperback Writer has the answer in the addendum to her Devil’s Publishing Dictionary. (Part one and part two.) It includes such wisdom as this:

Satire: the scornful use of heavy irony, vicious sarcasm, caustic ridicule or similar means to expose the truth about polarizing topics without getting one’s ass fired, attacked, sued, stalked, shot, etc.

If that is not esoteric enough for you, then you will prefer One Weekly Gun’s charmingly strange musical homage to The remains of Nicolaus Copernicus .

But back to the aforementioned election. Rather than rehash all the stuff we know, alejna has deep an important election news in the Republic of Pants « collecting tokens.

Mad Kane wonders, in verse, if Bush doesn’t have brush to clear?

If you’re looking for seasonal poetry, check out The Daily Lifeku’s “Happy Turkey Day” — a three-line meditation of tofurkey.

Kevin Armstrong discovered this tragic story about a Cat Born with Small Face Just Wants to be Loved, Pet .

Satire Patch has hot entertainment news for us: NBC Show “The Whisperer Whisperer” Debuts In December

In the sports world, Kevin Brockman relates the sad tale of an Olympic mascot in trouble: Quatchi Caught In Olympic Scandal .

el guapo presents Amazing World Exclusive Interview of Jesus, Buddha, Bush and Darth Vader .

Mad Mike presents California Wildfires: Caused by Nature’s Homophobia?

And Rickey Henderson fills in our non-satire spot magnificently this edition with How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Read the Prescription Label .

And that’s it for the 107th edition. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, Ferdy’s permanent floating ping festival, and for the listings at the Blog Carnival too. Also, you may find some satire here if you poke around a bit. Here too. Thanks to Seychelles88 for the Underwood pic.

It’s still looking a little thin, but the main problem is between work and novel-writing, I just don’t have time to put it together this week. Perhaps next week if we can get a few more fun — and ahem, satirical — submissions. You can submit here.

In the meanwhile, you may want to check out the Addendum to the Devil’s Publishing Dictionary.

Welcome to the frightening 106th edition of the Carnival of Satire, where if you can’t laugh, you will fill with bile and explode. Let’s jump right into the mayhem!

Pre-Halloweenie Horrors

Ahistoricality has been busy digging through the web, and has found a number of delectable terrors for us, including this panicky email: Your Urgent Help Needed

Ahistoricality also uncovered this seasonal satire: The Hellborn Spawn of the MLA Swamp Monster: A Horror Film in Five Acts.

Politics

Despite the market meltdown, political concerns still dominate the carnival this month, beginning with gem: presents The time has come to ask: What might happen to our country if we elect a black Muslim terrorist president? (HT to Ahistoricality again, and for the next entry too.)

Then again, some of the hypothetical candidates might understand what the economy is really doing: Obama to Nation: ‘Fuck this shit, I’m outta here’

Rickey Henderson had an illuminating debate preview that you will kick yourself for missing: Rickey Presents: The Vice Presidential Debate of Submisunderestimanation (AKA The Only Vice Presidential Debate Preview Worth Reading) .

GrrlScientist did some digging of her own and discovered one of the candidate’s index cards: Sarah Palin’s Debate Strategy Flow Chart.

Madeleine Begun Kane rhymes in with some poetry about the manic McCain: Finally, A John McCain Statement I Can Agree With .

Metapundit Edgy the Anticlown has an insight into what this is all leading towards in his Brief History of the Next 20 Years of Presidential Politics.

Starcasm discovered the Fake Sarah Palin Bikini Photo Is a FAKE!.

Howling Mad Jay has a fun toy for reporters frustrated by their lack of access to Ms. Palin: Pin Palin against the wall .

Other Satirical Nightmares

Satire Patch reveals all in: Man Dies, Discovers John Malkovich Is God .

banquet manager discovered The BEST Wedding Invitation Ever!

Sara Goldstein presents a fashion don’ts poem: ‘Mom jeans’ .

And B.M. Garrett takes us out on the one non-satirical note of the carnival, with this hilarious collection of additions to the English language, or as Garrett says, “neologisms for the purists “: Are you Obamatose or in Nirbama?

And that’s it for the 106th edition. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, Ferdy’s permanent floating ping festival, and for the listings at the Blog Carnival too. Also, you may find some satire here if you poke around a bit. Here too. Thanks to Riv for the scary pumpkin.

Welcome to the 105th edition of the Carnival of Satire, now on a monthly schedule. As always, we have a collection of irony-choked posts, parodies and humorous satire for you, beginning with a trip down memory lane to 100-acre woods:

Satire Patch has tracked down the actor who played Piglet, in one of their poignant and entertaining Interviews With The Damned.

Tom Cowan delves into a disturbing new lifestyle trend in the UK: Child Capture.

Madeleine Begun Kane has this Popeye-inspired political ditty: McCains Bellicose Tune

Azelma Petit combines his business acumen and understanding of how to kick ass in The Chuck Norris Guide to Self Motivation

We’re sorry we didn’t get this carnival out before you were able to make use of Rickey Henderson’s helpful The Republican National Convention Drinking Game.

For all you fiction writers out there — worried your characters are two dimensional? A Leahey has 1002 Character Ideas that will ensure it!

julius bloop continues his satire of Gerald, WOW player in: Gerald’s Song (Or: How I Lost My Guild) .

Sammy Benoit at YID With LID has a modest request: Whoopi Goldberg->Please Change Your Name !!.

In our non-satire slot, we have a note of optimism (what, I hear you saying, in the Carnival of Satire?), to share from Brian Jay Stanley: Election Campaigns, Then and Now, and some fine snark from Ron McKie: God bless America.

And that’s it for the 105th edition. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, Ferdy’s permanent floating ping festival, and for the listings at the Blog Carnival too. Also, you may find some satire here if you poke around a bit. Here too.

Sometimes, love just isn’t enough, and sometimes it leads us astray. Dereck shares a touching good-bye note to a Dear Cubicle.

Speaking of heart-felt good-byes, Madeleine Begun Kane has another kind of My “Dear John” Letter.

GrrlScientist loves dinosaurs, and was inspired by the recent unveiling of the Tarbosaurus in Japan to created this cartoon of a Vintage Blasphemy .

Sustainable Blogger believes Google has the solution to Wikichaos in: Google Knol: A return to order.

Aprameya has an elementary parody of Holmes and Watson.

Politics

Free-Ass. Press has the scoop on McCain’s breakthrough announcement of his Walking Mate.

Don, CEO of Donco, has a better solution for who to elect as the next US President in: Obama - McCain. The Choice is Clear.

But what kind of prayer would Don, CEO of Donco, leave at the Wailing Wall? Allen in Fort Worth has the actual text of Barack Obama’s Prayer At The Western Wall In Jerusalem.

Sammy Benoit presents Barack Obama’s UNPUBLISHED Energy Solutions.

Satire Patch presents A ROMAN BARACK OBAMA?

In this edition’s non-satire slot, Rickey Henderson relates the adventure of his beard in this poignant post, Farewell, Whiskers of Glory. Don’t worry, he still has the cheesy stache.

And to take us out on with a touch of the old video, GrrlScientist unearthed this gem: The Canadians Apologize to America. It may be a little old, but the sentiments remain the same:

And that’s it for the 104th edition. I think we’ll be moving to a monthly schedule from here on out. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, Ferdy’s permanent floating ping festival, and for the listings at the Blog Carnival too. Also, you may find some satire here if you poke around a bit. Here too.

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Satire is destroying the world. There. I’ve admitted it, and now you know the secret desire of everyone here at The Skwib is to bring about a humorous apocalypse. A humockalypse, if you will. And we’re a week late to chime in on the New Yorker fiasco — an example of failed satire if ever there was one — so we’ll let some of our participants this week can do it for us.

But before we get to the Obama-New Yorker Incident (The Oborker Incident), Satirepatch has stunning news in evolutionary biology: Scientists Discover Lawyers Becoming a New Species .

And now back to The Orborker Incident: As always, Madeleine Begun Kane is spot on with her poem, lampooning A Humorist’s Lament (Covering The New Yorker Cover Brouhaha In Verse) .

Jon Swift then teaches the New Yorker (and all the non-satirists out there) how it is done with his take on the Obama cover.

So who says Obama or McCain will be the next US President? Neil Benson is a self-described “mostly retired former mental health professional” (so that should give you some warning) and he has a prediction: Our New President: Nancy Pelosi.

This post from Free-Ass. Press is satirical and ironic, as it was (briefly) the #1 story on Digg.com: Digg Users Hate Everything; Bury Internet .

Julius Bloop gets all medieval on the carnival with: Diary Of A World Of Warcraft Player - Moms Are For Real Life Only .

Humungus has yet another scheme from the Flinstone-Rubble Compendium of Instant Wealth: Employment opportunities available!.

Yitzchak Goodman has uncovered the lyrics to The Other Black National Anthem .

Sammy Benoit relates the news that PETA Says Term A*S HOLE is Cruel to Animals .

In this week’s one single, non-satire moment, Barbara Diamond relieves all the ironic tension by reminding us of the dangers of hippos in: OH SHIT, RUN.

And that’s it for the 103rd edition. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, Ferdy’s permanent floating ping festival, and for the listings at the Blog Carnival too. Also, you may find some satire here if you poke around a bit. Here too.

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We have a good one this week folks! Thanks to everyone for listening to my pleas and sending actual satire. Now, if we could get everyone represented below could link to the carnival as well, we’d really have something! (I will be paying attention.)

Satirepatch has a report that Marilyn Manson Is Going Country. Will this radical career shift work? The lyrics say it all:

I guess I was a little high.
I guess you are a little dead.
Sorry that I did some acid
And drove the John Deere over your head.

Allen in Fort Worth found this ancient sacred text while rummaging through a trash heap behind Al Gore’s ridiculously large Tennessee mansion : The Creation According To Saint Albert

In related news, Kevin Colby has learned the Government plans to mandate breathing mask to stop release of CO2.

Did you know peak oil is killing NASA too? The Free-Ass. Press has the story: Astronauts Hardest Hit By High Gas Prices.

lordsomber has this disturbing take on “lifestyle products”: Service, Commitment, Sacrifice: The SetUp™.

James Logan relates his adventure at the Californian DMV .

Madame X has this look at the publishing industry and a Sneak Peek at Future Book Projects .

Homework. Dinner. Life. is less than impressed with the manly art of grilling.

And in the one single, grudgingly allowed non-satire slot, Matthew Boyd reviews a satirical video game: Sailing away with “Harpooned.” Nicely finessed Matthew!

And that’s it for the 102nd edition. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, Ferdy’s permanent floating ping festival, and for the listings at the Blog Carnival too. Also, you may find some satire here if you poke around a bit. Here too. Thanks to the DogfromSpace for the pic.

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Greg Merrick has discovered the negative effects of video games are quite unambiguous: Video Games Causing Many Older Americans to Think They’re Wizards, Fairies

Madeleine Begun Kane wonders (in limerick form) Is Olbermann Turning Into O?Reilly?

Sammy Benoit relates the news that CONDI RICE Announced a Mid-East Peace Solution: NO SEX FOR JEWS !

Is it time for a Bloggers Bill of Rights? Kevin Brink makes the case.

sweetpea presents Sex and the City Weekend.

AJ has alarming news buried in this article: Breaking News: Obama Chooses Pastor for VP!.

Skip DeKades presents Clinton Pledges to Be Altruistic Autocrat.

And in the non-satire slot, Jon Rochetti has the Photo of the Week - Hillary Tees…3 for $10.

And that’s it for the 101st edition. I can’t help but note the fierce competition for that one single slot of non-satire that I include with the carnival, so my advice is to submit satire. If you’re stilll wondering what satire is, my take on it is written here. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, Ferdy’s permanent floating ping festival, and for the listings at the Blog Carnival too. Also, you may find some satire here if you poke around a bit. Here too. A special thanks to negatendo for the humorous illustration.

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Congratulations to Madeleine Begun Kane for being the ONLY PERSON to send someone else’s satire to this 100th edition. And it’s a great piece, by Rickey Henderson. Strap on your dusty fedora and get ready to whip up some laughter as you peruse: A Memo from the Office of Steven R. Lawlor, CPA, to Indiana Jones .

And while you’re wiping the tears out of your eyes, check out Mad’s latest satirical limerick: George Who???.

Dem reports on the more sober Today’s the Day the Teddybears Have Their Annual Company-Wide Meeting.

Chris Cameron believes the Beatles Were Just Another Hair Band. Get ready for the hate email Chris.

C. Fraser has some Canadian satire in his continuing series on Canadian Mystery: What is Burried on Oak Island?.

El Burro is amused by the CBS Purchase of Bleeding-Edge Company CNET. Is color tele-vision to follow?.

Brent Diggs has learned why so many web designers are slightly mad as he explores The Harsh Demands of Internet Explorer.

The Whited Sepulchre presents Hillary On The Night Shift .

Thad Guy presents New Zealand & The Curse of Natural Resources

Renal Failure presents Forty ounces of denounce

And in the not satire, but it’s included category, O. Daille Nation-Ashley presents Legal Thriller Style Scam Classic: The Enron Implosion O.Daille also plays well with others, and submitted someone else’s post. You can find an amusing article written by this generous soul about the paucity of gruntled lawyers here.

And that’s it for the 100th edition. A copy of The Amadeus Net will be on the way to Mad and O.Daille for being good sports. We’ll be back to the usual..ish format in two weeks with the 101st edition. Still wondering what satire is? Someone wrote something about it once, we think. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, Ferdy’s permanent floating ping festival, and for the listings at the Blog Carnival too. Also, you may find some satire here and here if you explore a bit. A special thanks to macieklew for his hung-out-to-dry teddy bear pic.

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Anyone who enjoys satire, and has a source for the pure stuff, please send along a link for next week’s Carnival of Satire. Believe it or not, it will be the 100 th edition! Let me know your blog as well as the URL of the satire you’re recommending. It’s okay if it’s your own, but only those who selflessly promote someone else’s work will get a chance to win a copy of THE AMADEUS NET. (And if you’ve already bought a copy, we’ll figure something out.) You can use the form here at BlogCarnival, or just email the details to skwib@markarayner.com (please put Carnival of Satire submission in the subject line). The deadline is next Wednesday evening.

Yep, that was the 100th edition. Still, the Carnival of Satire is much younger than John McCain. This is a fun site which is both satirical and ageist, via the busy Hermenautic Circle Blog. And while you’re there, you will want to follow the link to Braniac, which has an interesting and groovy re-think on who the various generations are, and how they are different.

Or you may just want to relax with the Carnival of Insanities, humor-blogs.com, or alltop.

If none of this does the trick, then perhaps you should have some carbs.

Happy International Worker’s Day everyone! Yep, it’s May Day, the traditional day to celebrate the worker, to dance around Maypoles, and if you’re really into it, you may even want to do some Morris Dancing. Alas, the hoopla falls on this, the 99th edition of the Carnival of Satire, but we will press forward with our cynicism anyhow:

We start with this news of recent scientific research. Dr. Tundra was very upset to read Will’s report that the Tinfoil Hat Brain Firewall Not So Secure After All.

Now, this busy worker isn’t dancing around a Maypole exactly, but she is very excited about something. And frankly, it’s kind of worryng. You’ll find the whole image at Fengtastic!, or click on the thumbnail.

Speaking of Maypoles, Swann has learned The Real Reason Hillary is Running.

While on the subject of poles with ears, Barbara Diamond informs us that Dick is obsessed with Nothin but Ass.

Ian Bowman has begun a promising list of defaults, starting with the default hobby for gainfully employed guys who are not in the habit of doing something even remotely interesting: photography.

Madeleine Begun Kane has nya, nya with: Hey Obama Sycophants, Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You.

Sammy Benoit piles on with his terrifying dream: Barack Obama Was At The Exodus.

Huck Finn learns how Putin will save American democracy: by sending Chastity Belts to politicians.

This submission by Michael Fowke just freaked Thag out, but it was strangely compelling: Invesco Perpetual: Neil Woodford the star manager.

Greg Merrick has more financial doings with this primer on How to Completely Ruin Your Life Trying to Start Your Own Business.

While celebrating May Day, you may want to keep this news from Bloggledoggle that the Swamp Thing Actually a Hippie. Also there are indications that Batman is psychotic and Woody Woodpecker is an instigator. You heard me, an instigator.

And to finish off with some non-satire: Davexplorer made us laugh with this list of Dog Look Alike Celebrities.

And that’s it for the 99th edition! For our 100th edition, we’d like to do something a little different. We’d like you to find an example of some great satire that is not your own, and share it with us. We’ll credit both the finders and the findees. And what is satire? Someone wrote something about it once, we think. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, Ferdy’s permanent floating ping festival, and for the listings at the Blog Carnival too. Also, you may find some satire here if you dance around a bit. Warning: Alltop may cut in.

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