History Quotes / PoesLaw

->''I actually event defended {{Frank Miller}}’s ''[[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder All Star Batman and Robin]]'' when it came out, because I thought it was hilarious. I thought the whole thing was a send-up. I thought ''ComicBook/SinCity'', too, was meant to take the broad archetypes of Noir and push them out to their logical extremes, and I thought by making something that highlighted and extreme and ridiculous you could get at the emotional truths that had spawned these sorts of revenge fantasies to begin with. I said I liked these comics. This is embarrassing now. Marv and Dwight punching shit in ''Sin City'' is actually how Frank Miller views the world.''

-->-- '''{{Snopes}}''', [[http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/vandyke.asp on]] the [[DickVanDyke Penis van Lesbian]] joke

->''When, many years ago, I was given this book, I thought it was a satire. I learned later that it was the first work of a distinguished sociologist. Otherwise, when we look closely enough into a society, we know is not {{Utopia}} and its [[CrapsackWorld fair description]] runs the risk of border on satire.''

* PoesLaw: His prologue to Thorstein Veblen's ''Theory Of The Leisure Class'' (The reader can find more about this book at ConspicuousConsumption, RealLife):

-->--Bender Bending Rodriguez, ''{{Futurama}}''

->"''The problem with irony and satire is the dumb motherfuckers don't get it.''"

-->--'''A popular [[MemeticMutation meme]] showing [[{{Futurama}} Fry]] squinting skeptically'''

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->''Most of the themes in my comic strip "ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}" involve workplace situations. I routinely include [[PlanetEris bizarre and unworldly elements]] such as talking animals, troll-like accountants, and employees turning into dishrags after the life-force has been drained from their bodies. And yet the comment I hear most often is: "That's just like my company."''

-->--'''Rolling Stone's [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/why-rebecca-blacks-much-mocked-viral-hit-friday-is-actually-good-20110315 review]]''' of "{{Music/Friday}}" by RebeccaBlack

->''There are a number of spoof sites on religion (and it's a measure of what's at the bottom of the barrel on the religious side that it can be hard to tell the spoofs from the real deal). There is, for example, The Society of Christians for the Restoration of Old Testament Morality (sorry if I blew your cover) or Landover Baptist Church (much easier to identify as a spoof, although I have no doubt there are people who miss it). Read their mail page. Read the religious believers praising them for their stance. ''Then read the nonbelievers flaming them.'' Then come back here and tell me with a straight face that nonbelievers are inherently more rational, better informed, and better at critical reasoning than believers.''

->''Most of the themes in my comic strip "{{Dilbert}}" involve workplace situations. I routinely include [[PlanetEris bizarre and unworldly elements]] such as talking animals, troll-like accountants, and employees turning into dishrags after the life-force has been drained from their bodies. And yet the comment I hear most often is: "That's just like my company."''

->Some filmmakers are embracing this idea of movies being designed to be consumed ironically, while other filmmakers are just making shitty movies. And the frustrating thing is that there is ''no observable difference'' between the two.
-->-- '''{{Website/Cracked}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/i-cant-tell-if-movies-are-being-serious-anymore/ I Can't Tell If Movies Are Being Serious Anymore]]

-->-- '''{{Snopes}}''', [[http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/vandyke.asp on]] the [[ScunthorpeProblem Penis van Lesbian]] joke

-->--'''A popular [[MemeticMutation meme]] showing [[{{Futurama}} Fry]] squinting skeptically

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-->--'''WebOriginal/RationalWiki''', on [[http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_Law this trope]]

-->--'''RationalWiki''', on [[http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_Law this trope]]

->''"Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality anymore."''
-->-- '''JulesFeiffer'''

-->--'''Steven Dutch, ''[[http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/10DumRel.htm The Dumbest Statements About Religion]]'''''

-->--[[http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_Law RationalWiki]]

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