* * * * *
                                        
  This doesn't appear to be a reprint of an Onion article—perhaps that's why I
                            find this so frightening
                                        
Obligatory Death of Satire Links

* Freedonian Feminists and Knitting Society Web Ring [1]
* I guess he'll make peeing on hydrants legal … [2]
* Real life giving satire a run for the money [3]
* Bush Administration attempting to out-satirize satire [4]
* No need for satire anymore [5]
* Dogs: Devoted Carnivores [6]
* Ah, that explains it … [7]
* The Band Du Jour [8]
* A satirical look at satire. Or is it? [9]


> The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE (General
> Certificate of Secondary Education (British)), said: “On one of my cards it
> said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were
> -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But
> when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't.
> 
> “I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher—
> not lower—than -8 but I'm not having it.”
> 

Via theferrett [10], “‘Cool Cash’ card confusion [11]”

No wonder the Week ly World News folded [12]—it couldn't compete with the
real news.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/05/23.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/07/01.3
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/11/14.3
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/10/16.1
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/03/04.1
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/05/27.1
[7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/05/30.1
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/06/29.1
[9] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/07/30.2
[10] http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1007610.html
[11] http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1022757_cool_cash_card_co
[12] http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN7O23037320070724

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