Thursday, 15 October 2009

Satire - where to start?

A friend of mine is an engineer and takes life too seriously. He has asked me to tell him a little bit about the art of Satire and Humour. Instead of quoting facts and being very precise, which can be very boring for most normal people (or Penguins) - why not use humour to get the message across?

The following link claims: "Satirists (people who compose satire) often use techniques such as irony, hyperbole, understatement, allegories and parody in order to ridicule their subjects." It may take years of study to understand this stuff and miraculously it comes naturally to some gifted and lucky people.

So I've put together a little collection:

Humans are wrecking the planet.
Bogus climate solutions and last minute desperate solutions from politicians.
Would those clever animals (humans) cause climate change? No, it can't be.

And just for the fun of it here's a Simpson crash course in evolution :-)

PS Any good writer will tell you never to start a sentence with "And" or "So".

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