Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor of Literature and Arts C-22: "European Culture in the Latin Middle Ages" wowed shoppers with slides of the Starbucks coffee logo, a video clip from "Pulp Fiction," and an audio clip from a Weird Al Yankovich spoof of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise...
...HARD (May 24). Leslie Nielsen in another spoof--not by the brothers Zucker, but you wouldn't guess that from the trailer. This one is James Bond with some Speed gags thrown in: the bus driver is Ray Charles ("Next stop, Melrose--I think"). No way to tell if the humor is sustained, since any farce will have enough decent gags to stock a trailer...
...liars, we're cheats and we're horrible people, but we're not robbers," said Aaron Ehasz '95-'96, a Lampoon staffer who said he helped put together the spoof...
...here's a reality check. The Finnish remailer could not have been used, since anon.penet.fi no longer transmits binary image files. Jerry Russell, who runs Florida Online and who looked into the case, says he figures the whole thing was a relatively simple prank called a sendmail spoof, in which the prankster posts a message with a phony return address. He says the Willowick police never produced a copy of the posting for him so that he could unravel the tangle for them. Indeed, when the policeman called, "he didn't really understand what he was trying to tell...
...declaration which screams out 'I will not wallow in conformity'" to the bad-boy "Do the Dew" ads for Mountain Dew. These ads are aimed squarely at Carvey's "countercultural" audience, as he's called it--not coincidentally, Mountain Dew is his next title sponsor. Rather than spoof an advertising form that really doesn't exist anymore, Carvey might find more stinging satiric subject matter in ads that shamelessly flatter his audience, telling them they're too hip to be sold...