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 Welcome to the Satire Discussion Forum. See the syllabus for a description of this assignment. To post to this discussion, you can either start a new topic or reply to an existing post. A new topic is just that, a separate line of discussion. A reply is an response to an existing discussion. It is important to keep these two things separate to make the discussion functional. Since your posts will be well-crafted writing with appropriate citations and style, you should write them first in a word processing document. Microsoft Word is the spawn of Satan and should be avoided if you can. Openoffice.org does everything Microsoft does only better, and it's free. If you must use Word, do not copy and paste directly from your document into this forum. Instead, copy the text, then choose the "copy from Word" icon in the tool bar above. It looks like this Word Icon. Click the box to "remove styles definitions," then click "ok."

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A note on time and change in humor

            In considering the majority of what we have read for tomorrow, it would seem that we have been presented works that are directly challenged by time. It would appear that the subject matter of each piece – within context of the author’s era – is what makes them vulnerable to being approached with humor. Dickinson is an easy target for Collins, for example, because her consideration of her experience with courtship is irrelevant, thus leaving the poem’s emotional predicament appearing petty. Collins’ poem does not directly attack Dickinson; it pokes fun at the realities of the misogynous gender roles she endured, which led her to voicing such woes. Similarly, The Raven falls victim to time’s corrosive sense of humor. Aside from old language and self-contradicting statements, Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition” is an easy target to parody because in it, he reveals his methods of writing – blueprints for parody.

            On a similar note, satire and parody can become tasteless over the span of time, because of societal changes. Perhaps “Po’ Sandy” would have been funny when it was written, but now it’s just racist. In fact, Wadell’s parody of his slave’s vernacular belittles the only respectable storytelling qualities, which exist within a sense of mythical irony that comes from the slave's tale. However, it would seem that some topics are able to withstand the test of time in the form of satire. Juvenal’s satires still succeed today, because of their (still-pertinent) applicability to political and societal changes. While I did not find them terribly funny, I chuckled a bit at their vivid vulgarity and delicate approach to potty humor.  

  • By emmett_joseph at 04/28/2009 - 23:20
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I posted an blog in response

I posted an blog in response to this!

Rick

  • By Richard Daily at 04/30/2009 - 01:16
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Bah to Greg!

 

I don't know why you insist on insulting Microsoft Word when every other online system I've ever used doesn't need the stupid past from Microsoft Word thing and just took out all the style comments automatically. I think its the program that your using for the forums and blogs that could be at fault. Also, it doesn't allow Firefox's built in spell checker to work, and if I try to post this using firefox, even when I do the post using word stuff, it puts code up at the top about it not using IE, which is one Microsoft product we can both agree on hating. Plus, that admittedly sweet looking buffalo icon gets in the way of the text so you can't read what your writing if you’re on the far right part of the top of the screen. For some reason it also shows up if you try to select a font, making the list nearly impossible to read. If you actually read this Greg, could you fix that?
 
Furthermore, I've used OpenOffice and found its layout and style annoying, as well as its fucked up margins. It might be free, and use less computing power, but it just doesn't match up yet to the polished, but sometimes annoying, Microsoft Word, which, if you are smart enough to look, you can find the Ultimate Edition for $50 instead of $500, or you could torrent it and rip of a really rich company. Also, Bill gates is god Greg, or at least he's richer than god, mwahahaha!
 
You should also know that Macs are overpriced and the operating system is really not all that great, except to new users who aren't sophisticated enough to deal with the technological world we live in. The only thing Apple makes that I like is the iPod, but ITunes is a piece of crap, though it probably works better for the Mac OS, as it is a piece of bloat ware that uses way too much processing power when doing nothing. I'd much rather just use two different programs, one for video, and one for audio, that are also free, and use less space. Sure they aren't polished, but at least they aren't made by a company that focuses on style more than anything else.
 
In case I haven't been clear enough: LONG LIVE USING ILLIGALY COPPIED MICROSOFT SOFTWARE!
 
*I think this post has some sort of humor, perhaps some irony thrown in. I shall make an effort in the long term to improve my skills and learn to write something satirical.

 

**This is Torin, I made my account before this class so I didn't think a real name would be needed. This is your only warning as to who this is

  • By WCD_Thor at 04/28/2009 - 21:44
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A List of Puns/A Poem

The "Mock"-Tamale:
A List of Puns/Terrible Jokes

Q: What do you call an uncomfortable situation?
A: An awk-tamale

Q: Where’s the nearest gas station?
A: Down the block-tamale

Q: What can I use to write on this concrete?
A: Chalk-tamale

Q: What do I even call this concrete?
A: A sidewalk-tamale

Q: Where do I keep my boat?
A: The dock-tamale

Q: It’s not really a boat, it’s more of a…
A: Yacht tamale?

Q: What do you say when you stub your toe?
A: Fuck tamale!

Q: What do you call a person that stares?
A: A gawk-tamale

Q: What should the Redlands mascot be?
A: A hawk-tamale

Q: Who are the most pooooopular guys at school?
A: The jock-tamales

Q: How do I close this safe?
A: With a lock tamale

Q: How do you start of a killer joke?
A: Knock-knock-tamale

Q: Who’s the greatest rapper alive?
A: Tupac-tamale

I started a terrible
pointless discussion
in our new forum.

You were probably hoping that
this would be a place to talk
openly with grace and intelligence

I am sorry, but I think that
I am too freaking hilarious
to stop myself from posting this.
 

  • By samantha_berkman at 04/28/2009 - 19:45
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puns?

What a crock-tamale!

  • By sharon_oster at 04/28/2009 - 19:52
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I hope that was Horatian

I hope that was Horatian satire, otherwise I'd be shocked-tamale!

  • By samantha_berkman at 04/28/2009 - 20:26
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Berkman!!! Oster!!!

I give you both Prop-Tamales!

Rick Daily

  • By Richard Daily at 04/29/2009 - 13:51
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Wow

You are truly super silly.

  • By WCD_Thor at 04/28/2009 - 21:47
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