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Hipcrime and Vocab
The Hipcrime Vocab and other works by the fictional sociologist Chad C. Mulligan are frequent sources of quotations.

Hipcrime and .
A person or persons using the pseudonym " Hipcrime " have attacked this and other groups with sporgeries, usually nonsense or Dissociated Press text posted under random names of legitimate posters.
" Hipcrime " is one of Mulligan's neologisms ; his definition in the book is: " You committed one when you opened this book.

Vocab and .
The album spawned two underground hits, " Nappy Heads ( Mona Lisa )" and " Vocab ", but gained little mainstream attention, despite earning plaudits for its artistic quality and innovative use of samples.
* NYTimes. com, Schott's Vocab " Chimping " March 23, 2011, 10: 00 am

satirical and collection
Of higher literary value is the didactic and satirical Buch von der Tugend und Weisheit ( 1550 ), a collection of forty-nine fables in which Alberus embodies his views on the relations of Church and State.
On 1 May 1898, the character was featured in a rather satirical cartoon called Casey Corner Kids Dime Museum but he was drawn ironically, as a bearded, balding old man wearing a green nightshirt which bore the words: " Gosh I've growed old in making dis collection.
His first book, a collection of short pieces called Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf, was published in 1856, and his second, a lengthy satirical poem called Nothing to Do: A Tilt at our Best Society, was published in 1857.
The Period of Division with its many tragedies and dramatic historical developments inspired many poets and gave rise to some Vietnamese masterpieces in verse, including the epic poem The Tale of Kiều ( Truyện Kiều ) by Nguyễn Du, Song of a Soldier's Wife ( Chinh Phụ Ngâm ) by Đặng Trần Côn and Đoàn Thị Điểm, and a collection of satirical, erotically charged poems by a female poet, Hồ Xuân Hương.
Gilman's first book was Art Gems for the Home and Fireside ( 1888 ); however, it was her first volume of poetry, In This Our World ( 1893 ), a collection of satirical poems, that first brought her recognition.
Walter Map's only surviving work, De Nugis Curialium ( Trifles of Courtiers ) is a collection of anecdotes and trivia, containing court gossip and a little real history, and written in a satirical vein.
He is best known for his collection of tall tales, The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, originally a satirical work with political aims.
It was closely followed by Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum ( Letters of obscure men ), a satirical collection purporting to defend his accusers, but actually directed against them.
The definitive edition was made by Constantine Cephalas in the 10th century, who added a number of other collections: homoerotic verse collected by Straton of Sardis in the 2nd century AD ; a collection of Christian epigrams found in churches ; a collection of satirical and convivial epigrams collected by Diogenianus ; Christodorus ' description of statues in the Byzantine gymnasium of Zeuxippos ; and a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus.
Then in 1858 he produced a miscellaneous collection called " Dry Sticks Fagoted by W. S. Landor ", which contained among other things some epigrammatic and satirical attacks which led to further libel actions.
With two friends, he collaborated on a small book entitled Poetical Illustrations of the Athenaeum Gallery of Painting, which was a collection of satirical poems about the new art gallery in Boston.
His key works are Der Naturen Bloeme (" The Flower of Nature ", c. 1263 ), a collection of moral and satirical addresses to all classes of society, and De Spieghel Historiael (" The Mirror of History ", c. 1284 ).
Inspired by Bierce, they both update and extend the collection of satirical definitions.
We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).
Heavenly Discourse is a collection of satirical essays by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, published in 1927.
He was named a National Artist in Literature in 1992 and is best known for his satirical short stories published in his 1958 collection Fáa Bɔ ̀ Kân () Sky is No Barrier.
In the course of five years, 1945-49, he enjoyed phenomenal success with four novels, a collection of short stories, a book about postwar Germany, five plays, hundreds of poems and satirical verses, several essays of note and a large amount of journalism.
Mr Jekyll and Dr Hyde is an expanding collection of satirical songs that includes live recordings, basement tapes and previously-released CD tracks.
During his short literary life span, Hedayat published a substantial number of short stories and novelettes, two historical dramas, a play, a travelogue, and a collection of satirical parodies and sketches.
* Radical Squibs and Loyal Ripostes: a collection of satirical pamphlets of the Regency period 1819-1821 ( 1971 ) editor
Earlier projects in these fields have included the founding ofThe Wrong Gallery ”, a store window in New York City, in 2002 and its subsequent display within the collection of the Tate Modern from 2005 to 2007 ; collaborations on the publications Permanent Food, 1996 – 2007-with Dominique Gonzalez Foerster and Paola Manfrin-and the slightly satirical arts journal " Charley ", 2002 – present ( the former an occasional journal comprising a pastiche of pages torn from other magazines, the latter a series on contemporary artists ); and the curating of the Caribbean Biennial in 1999.
One unusual project from this collection is Apocamon: The Final Judgement, a satirical, stylized presentation of the Book of Revelation in a graphic style similar to the Pokémon trading card game and a writing style similar to the comic book tracts of Jack T. Chick.

satirical and similar
In the 20th century, one of the most influential plays, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ( 1928 ) The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical bite, but only using one tune from the original.
Clerihews are not satirical or abusive, but they target famous individuals and reposition them in an absurd, anachronistic or commonplace setting, often giving them an over-simplified and slightly garbled description ( similar to the schoolboy style of 1066 and All That )
They may have been expecting verses similar to the satirical ones Poe had been writing about commanding officers.
A satirical song published in The Times newspaper of 1789 referring to the rumoured clandestine marriage between Prince Regent and Mrs. Fitzherbert also reflects this symbolic usage of the broomstick imagery: “ Their way to consummation was by hopping o ’ er a broom, sir ”, and there are plentiful other examples of ‘ broomstick ’ being using in other contemporary contexts but all with a similar implication of dubiousness or fakery.
Détournement is similar to satirical parody, but employs more direct reuse or faithful mimicry of the original works rather than constructing a new work which merely alludes strongly to the original.
In 1929 he became editor of the satirical magazine Corriere Emiliano, and from 1936 to 1943 he was the chief editor of a similar magazine called Bertoldo.
A similar usage appears in another satirical US cartoon series, Family Guy ( season 4 episode 6, 2005 ).
Before the beginning of the game, the host announces a satirical sponsor for the episode ( similar to YDKJ: The Ride ); If a player manages to buzz in with the wrong answer associated with the sponsor, they win $ 4, 000 ( double in Round 2 ) and a ' prize ' from the sponsor, instead of losing cash.
In a very different tradition, but evincing a similar strong political viewpoint, was the satirical short-story writer Aziz Nesin.
" Aravamudan himself stressed the satiric nature of the work and held that while it and Midnight's Children may appear to be more " comic epic ", " clearly those works are highly satirical " in a similar vein of postmodern satire pioneered by Joseph Heller in Catch-22.
Many elements of the film are similar to Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb -- namely, the satirical treatment of the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
In a very different tradition, but evincing a similar strong political viewpoint, was the satirical short-story writer Aziz Nesin ( 1915 – 1995 ) and Rıfat Ilgaz ( 1911 – 1993 ).
Affectionately embracing satirical portrayals has been a Bush tactic at other times as well, such as when he presented a self-parodying slide show at the May 2004 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner about looking for weapons of mass destruction in the Oval Office after the political comic strip Doonesbury satirically portrayed him on a similar comical search.
The segments were shot in low-quality video to maintain the satirical feel of poor quality television ( similar to Chanel 9 segments on The Fast Show ).
Some of these are similar to Christian Morgenstern's, but often more satirical in tone and occasionally subversive.
In many ways, Fear of a Black Hat is similar to the satirical film about early 1980s heavy metal, This is Spinal Tap.
Following the 2004 American election, some Americans distributed the satirical Jesusland map on the Internet, depicting a similar proposal under which the " blue states " were part of a new political entity called " The United States of Canada ".
Canadian comedian and actor Martin Short also employed a similar technique with his best-known character, the fawning, morbidly obese celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick ; another notable resemblance between Glick and Norman is the Glick show's " fairytale " segment " Lalawood Fables ", which is very similar to the " Norman's Dreamtime " segments of the Gunston show, in which the host reads a satirical mock-fable ( intercut with pre-produced vision ) to a group of assembled children.
In March 1967 Scherr, hoping to trick authorities into banning bananas, ran a satirical story which claimed that dried banana skins contained " bananadine ", a ( fictional ) psychoactive substance which, when smoked, supposedly induced a psychedelic high similar to opium and psilocybin.
Neil Stephenson's satirical first novel, The Big U, was loosely based on his experiences in Warren Towers, and is set in a fictional dormitory similar to Warren — with eight towers instead of three, but connected at a commons above ground level.
In 2008, he wrote much of Headcases, a satirical ITV show very similar to Spitting Image, but made with CGI rather than puppets.

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