History Quotes / PoesLaw

-->-- '''Creator/ChrisStuckmann''' on ''Film/NineLives2016''

-->--'''[[http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/media/214739-illuminati-conspiracy-news-hidden Gabriella Garcia]]''', "I hid Illuminati graphics in news broadcasts [[BitingTheHandHumor because I was bored]]"

->''Starship Troopers'' is such an amazing satire [[Creator/RogerEbert most critics]] didn't even realize it was one. And when someone can't tell that Psychic Gestapo [[Creator/NeilPatrickHarris Doogie Howser]] isn't serious, they can't even be trusted to watch movies for a living.

->Remember 2005? Back when we didn’t have a lot of good comic book movies to celebrate? Back before the first 300 movie, when the whole idea of that posturing 'no homo' otherness-phobic carnival of green screened pomposity seemed like it might have [[MistakenForProfound cultural value?]] Back before Creator/FrankMiller’s swastika-festooned ''Film/TheSpirit'' left a bad taste in everyone’s mouths? Back when people were still insisting ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'' was actually good satire, before ''Holy Terror'' confirmed that, no, Frank Miller is actually frighteningly sincere? Back when we clung to ''deniability''?

-->-- '''Creator/JorgeLuisBorges''' prologue of Thorstein Veblen's [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense ''Theory Of The Leisure Class'']] (The reader can find more about this book at ConspicuousConsumption, RealLife).

->... just in case there's anyone from the ''[[MediaWatchdog Mail On Sunday]]'' watching this, I was using an exaggerated form of the rhetoric and implied values of ''Series/TopGear'' to satirize the rhetoric and the implied values of ''Top Gear''. And it is a shame to break character to explain that, but hopefully it will save you [[DoNotExplainTheJoke a long, tedious exchange of emails.]]

->Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking. (Hint: This is impossible.)

-->-- '''Gabe''', ''WebComic/PennyArcade''

-->-- '''''UrbanDictionary''''' on Radio/GlennBeck

->'''{{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}''': I actually didn't know "I Lost on Jeopardy" was a parody, I thought it was just a song {{Music/Weird Al|Yankovic}} made.\\

->When {{Uncyclopedia}} doesn't have to make stuff up to make you look batshit crazy, perhaps it's saying something.

-->--'''Radio/RushLimbaugh''' on BillOReilly

->''Starship Troopers'' is such an amazing satire [[Creator/RogerEbert most critics]] didn't even realize it was one. And when someone can't tell that Psychic Gestapo [[NeilPatrickHarris Doogie Howser]] isn't serious, they can't even be trusted to watch movies for a living.

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->When I first saw the trailer for this movie a few months back, I genuinely thought it was a joke. I honestly thought it was a ''Funny or Die'' trailer, or that it was not gonna be real.
-->-- '''Creator/ChrisStuckmann''' on ''Film/NineLives2016''
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->''And if you can't detect the sarcasm, you've misunderstood''

->'You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't."''

->Someboby's got to say it. The man is [[Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow Ted Baxter.]]

-->-- '''JorgeLuisBorges''' prologue of Thorstein Veblen's [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense ''Theory Of The Leisure Class'']] (The reader can find more about this book at ConspicuousConsumption, RealLife).

->If the video was intended to be a parody of teen pop convention, it would be on par with some of the best [[Series/SaturdayNightLive SNL]] Digital Shorts by [[TheLonelyIsland Lonely Island]].

-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUafnMgrvPM Vernaculis]] on the Guardian's [[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/alt-right-online-poison-racist-bigot-sam-harris-milo-yiannopoulos-islamophobia anonymous article]] that may or may not have been written by Godfrey Elfwick]]

-->-- '''Creator/StewartLee''' ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0i0RXMvzMs after a rant satirizing the behavior of Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson.]]''

-->--'''Andy Schlafly''' to an undercover troll, ''{{Wiki/Conservapedia}}''

->{{ComicBook/Lobo}} was designed as a brutal parody of Wolverine's violent stupidity and [[MisaimedFandom ended up becoming sincerely popular]]. And now you know why comic writers stick a cape on an element and go to the pub.

->If the video was intended to be a parody of teen pop convention, it would be on par with some of the best {{SNL}} Digital Shorts by [[TheLonelyIsland Lonely Island]].

->Please tell me that Creator/DonaldTrump will announce on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive that his entire campaign has been a really elaborate marketing stunt to promote his episode.

->...just in case there's anyone from the ''[[MediaWatchdog Mail On Sunday]]'' watching this, I was using an exaggerated form of the rhetoric and implied values of ''Series/TopGear'' to satirize the rhetoric and the implied values of ''Top Gear''. And it is a shame to break character to explain that, but hopefully it will save you [[DoNotExplainTheJoke a long, tedious exchange of emails.]]