The unbalanced and unpolished poetic meter and line length parody the limerick, and the clerihew in form also parodies the eulogy.

He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

Father Ted also contains references to pop culture, and some film parodies, such as the episode " Speed 3 ".

In the early 1980s, mail-order subscriber copies of White Dwarf also received a small ( A5, black and white ) companion magazine Black Sun edited by Steve Williams, with contributions from White Dwarf regulars such as Ian Marsh and Games Workshop staff-it offered parodies, extended reviews, humour and gaming news.

The opera also includes and parodies elements of melodrama, popular at the Adelphi Theatre.

Schoenberg has also attracted at least one parodist: in 1924, Hans Eisler published Palmström ( Studies on 12-tone Rows ), in which a Sprechstimme vocalist, singing texts by Christian Morgenstern, parodies the musical lines of Pierrot to the accompaniment of flute ( or piccolo ), clarinet, violin ( or viola ), and violincello.

In addition to television, feature films, books, and parodies, Spock has also been portrayed in fan fiction.

Yaoi began in the dōjinshi ( fan fiction ) markets of Japan in the late 1970s / early 1980s as an outgrowth of shōnen-ai, also known as " Juné " or " tanbi " ( which contain platonic relationships between pubescent or pre-pubescent boys ), but whereas shōnen-ai were original works, yaoi were parodies of popular shōnen anime and manga.

The phrase also parodies a classical style of plot structure.

PETA has also produced various Flash games showcasing their campaigns, including parodies of Cooking Mama, Super Mario Bros., and Super Meat Boy.

A parody of Michael Caine also appears in the animated series Ugly Americans, in the episode " The Dork Knight ", which also parodies the film The Dark Knight.

* Edmund Crispin's The Moving Toyshop ( 1946 ), a Golden Age mystery which also parodies certain conventions of the genre

In his thesis paper " Reawakening Pride Once Lost ": Indigeneity and European Folk Metal, Aaron Patrick Mulvany says that while much of the thematic history of heavy metal uses parodies of the occult in an incongruous fashion, Viking metal bands use " a very specific mythology which controls not only textual choices, but also the imagery used on albums and frequently the kind of music composed.

" Oscar also appeared in the Jim Henson holiday special, A Muppet Family Christmas, when the Sesame Street Gang comes to the Grizzly Farm House for the holidays, in the film he befriends Rizzo the Rat ( whose name parodies that of the Midnight Cowboy character Ratso Rizzo ) who asks the Grouch if he could stay in his trash can for the night.

The Family Guy episode " North By North Quahog " not only parodies the film's title but also recreates a few of the film's iconic scenes including the biplane attack and the chase across Mt Rushmore.

SNL also parodies ESPN Classic with fake archived obscure women's sportscasts from the 1980s such as bowling, weight lifting and curling, with announcers who know nothing about the sport, and instead focus on the sponsors which are always women's hygiene products.

Finally, the term is sometimes applied to less rigorous ideas that may be interesting observations or relationships, practical or ethical guidelines ( also called rules of thumb ), and even humorous parodies of such laws.

He also developed such routines as an all-gorilla version of Swan Lake, a poker game set to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the Silent Show, in which Eugene interacts with the world accompanied solely by music and sound effects, parodies of typical television commercials and movie genres, and various musical segments with everyday items ( such as kitchen appliances or office equipment ) moving in sync to music.

Strong Bad also parodies the name, imagining West Islip as a " British New Wave band ".

While these shows continued to incorporate the broad range of television parodies the show was known for, they also had a strong narrative thread which set the show apart from other sketch comedy shows of the time.

He has also appeared in several other parodies of real TV shows, including a stint as presenter of Springwatch whilst Bill Oddie was in hospital ( Roger had accidentally shot him ).

This form of remix is also used in advertisements, creating parodies of famous movies, TV series, etc.

There were also some notable comedy recordings, including several by Stan Freberg and the Yiddish-dialect parodies of Mickey Katz.

Fast Forward was also well known for its excellent musical parodies, particularly of current music video clips, many of which featured Gina Riley.

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

( See also Electoral systems of the Australian states and territories ).

There are also two religious university campuses in Canberra: Signadou is a campus of the Australian Catholic University and St Mark's Theological College is a campus of Charles Sturt University.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules However, late in the century the code began to decline in New South Wales and Queensland largely due to competition with other more popular football codes, as well as interstate rivalries and the lack of strong local governing bodies.

He also took Bennelong and his friend Yemmerrawanyea, another young Indigenous Australian who, unlike Bennelong, would succumb to English weather and disease and not live to make the journey home.

It repeated this success in the Australian charts and was also featured in the film, Letter to Brezhnev.

By the 1850s, bunyip had also become a " synonym for imposter, pretender, humbug and the like " in the broader Australian community.

This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...

" The word is also used in numerous other Australian contexts, including the House of the Gentle Bunyip in Clifton Hill, Victoria.

Bundaberg Rum is a major sponsor of the Australian Wallabies rugby union team and also sponsors the Bundaberg Rum Rugby Series.

There are also numerous historical constellations not recognized by the IAU, or constellations recognized in regional traditions of astronomy or astrology, such as Chinese, Hindu and Australian Aboriginal.

Australian Aboriginal astronomy also describes dark cloud constellations, the most famous being the " emu in the sky " whose head is formed by the Coalsack.

This pronunciation is also common in Australian English, but not in General American English or British English.

They also appear on the flags of the Australian state of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, as well as the flag of Magallanes Region of Chile, the flag of Londrina ( Brazil ) and several Argentine provincial flags and emblems ( for example, Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz ).

The term also served when six Australian colonies federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.

They also played at the Australian Live Earth concert in Sydney on 7 July.

The Australian Internet Safety Advisory Body has information about " practical advice on Internet safety, parental control and filters for the protection of children, students and families " that also includes public libraries.

Atkins also collaborated with Australian guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel.

Although the term " tackle " is used in Australian Rules to exclusively describe wrapping, holding or wrestling a player in possession, there are also several other ways of contesting possession in Australian rules that other sports would describe as a " tackle " and that also involve a degree of contact.