Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Your Ante!" is everything you ever wanted in a Pudding show and more. Admittedly, not much more. But this self-conscious, self-referential, self-indulgent spoof of the Las Vegas casino scene is a damn good time. And buried somewhere among its hilarious deluge of puns, malapropisms and campy pop culture references, it even retains some semblance of what might be called a plot...
...more endearing things about Fresno is its combination of optimism and self-deprecation: when it turned up at the bottom of a list of cities ranked according to "livability" during the 1980s, it went along with CBS's spoof of Dallas, the mini-series Fresno, starring Carol Burnett. Citizens, including the former mayor, took parts...
...General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines at Leyte, Chickering was among the first ashore. "Correspondents are supposed to be an intrepid lot," he wrote. Nevertheless, Chickering was well aware of the dangers of combat. In January 1945, while serving aboard the battleship New Mexico, he penned a humorous spoof titled "How to Be Unafraid in Warfare, Though Panic-Stricken," in which he poked fun at some of the risks of war. On Jan. 6, at 28, he was killed when a Japanese plane carrying a bomb crashed on the navigation bridge of the New Mexico...
Totally implausible? Of course, but also perfectly legal. The Draft Bush spoof is being circulated as black humor by underemployed Democratic consultants. As it bounces around, the notion has acquired variations. (A Republican spin: the Democrats try the ploy, but are so discombobulated that they nominate Tom Eagleton for Vice President.) Given the Democrats' performance in recent presidential elections, they could do far worse...
Just this week, for example, Radcliffe Union of Students President Ann E. Blais '91 accused AALARM Co-Founder E. Adam Webb '93 of murder in a week-long murder mystery spoof written by Winthrop students and held during meals...