The Onion has filled an amicus Brief with the Supreme Court in a case involving parody. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/ ... 0Brief.pdf
If I had written this brief, I’d just retire, because I’d never be able to come close to this one ever again.
Enjoy.
A Brief I Wish I’d Written
A Brief I Wish I’d Written
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When I go to sea, don’t fear for me. Fear for the storm.
Jessica Best, Fear for the Storm. From The Strange Case of the Starship Iris.
When I go to sea, don’t fear for me. Fear for the storm.
Jessica Best, Fear for the Storm. From The Strange Case of the Starship Iris.
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Re: A Brief I Wish I’d Written
LolThe Onion’s motto is central to this brief for two important reasons. First, it’s Latin. And The Onion knows that the federal judiciary is staffed entirely by total Latin dorks:
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Re: A Brief I Wish I’d Written
Low key appealing to their vanity? Brilliant.
Re: A Brief I Wish I’d Written
Years ago, the Harvard Lampoon did a parody of the National Enquirer, The Irrational Enquirer. They said it was actually challenging to come up with headlines that could come across a parody in the context of The National Enquirer. My personal favorite:Domestically, the number of elected leaders who are still incapable of parsing The Onion’s coverage as satire is daunting, but one particular example stands out: Republican Congressman John Fleming, who believed that he needed to warn his constituents of a dangerous escalation of the pro-choice movement after reading The Onion’s headline Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex.
WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO SELF!
But in an increasingly irrational political climate, a Billion Dollar Abortionplex sounds as sane as a pedophile pizza parlor.
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Re: A Brief I Wish I’d Written
Wish they had been so bold as to reveal that the bat child written about in the Enquirer was actually Donald Trump.
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