The Onion understands.

[theweaselking]

Cult Divided On Whether To Let Women Become Telepathic-Vision Clerics

Comments

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

This would be more obviously parody if it wasn't supposed to be out of Klamath Falls. I dropped acid there as a teenager and was STILL more coherent than many of the citizens.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It would be much less obviously parodic if it was set in Canterbury, Salt Lake City, or the Vatican.

[maelorin]

sometimes they *have* to make the parody obvious, or the targets wouldn't get it and they'd have even more people asking where they can sign up ...

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

Also, Millions of Barrels of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe (http://www.theonion.com/articles/millions-of-barrels-of-oil-safely-reach-port-in-ma,17875/).

[maelorin]

roflysst

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with that one.

[maelorin]

courtesy of bill bailey: rolling on floor laughing, yet somehow still typing