Satire
4 entries
- 1501-1830 Jul 2026 The Talking Statues of Rome: Anonymous Was Not Invented in 2003 Five hundred years before the imageboard, Romans had already built the perfect anonymous provocation machine: a broken statue you could stick a poem on overnight, mocking the Pope, with no name attached and nobody able to stop it. His name was Pasquino, and the Church spent centuries losing to him.
- 1729 Jun 2026 A Modest Cooking Show TRANSCRIPT -- 'Farm to Table with Chef Jonathan,' Season 3, Episode 14: 'Sustainable Solutions.' [UNAIRED]
- 1959-2018 Jun 2026 Alan Abel (1924-2018): America's Professional Hoaxer For over fifty years, Alan Abel fooled CBS, NBC, and the New York Times -- repeatedly. He faked his own obituary in the Times. When he actually died in 2018, they had to triple-check.
- 6th century BC-17th century Jun 2026 Senna — When Poetry Drew Blood In ancient Ireland, a poet's satire could raise blisters on a king's face. This was not a metaphor. It was law. The Brehon Laws regulated satirical poetry the way modern law regulates weapons.
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