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Web site bans parody posts
Me | 4/1/13 | Me

Posted on 04/01/2013 10:45:24 AM PDT by DManA

In an unusual move conservative chat site Free Republic announced today that it has banned all parody postings.

According to a representative of Free Republic, "We had to do something. An informal survey showed us fully 75% of all postings were amateur attempts at parody."

He went on "And it is a stretch to call these things parody. Parody isn't just making up crazy stuff and putting it into the mouths of people you don't like."

A frequent poster on the web site, DManA approves of the move. "Everyone loves to be tricked, fooled, and made a fool of. That's just human nature. But, I mean, come on. I'm just barely clinging to my sense of reality as it is."


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: aprilfool; humor; parody
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To: DManA
Very Parroty


21 posted on 04/01/2013 11:51:53 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Colorado Doug

Good rule. Hope you are doing the same for the hundreds of other abusers today.


22 posted on 04/01/2013 11:53:09 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA
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23 posted on 04/01/2013 11:54:35 AM PDT by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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Freepers, your Contributions make every difference!
Please keep ‘em coming! Thank you all very much!

24 posted on 04/01/2013 11:55:29 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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25 posted on 04/01/2013 11:56:15 AM PDT by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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26 posted on 04/01/2013 11:57:53 AM PDT by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: DManA

Maybe we need a Topic: Attempted Parody.


27 posted on 04/01/2013 12:09:37 PM PDT by Starstruck (Question. What would the U.S. look like today if there was no 2nd Amendment.)
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To: Starstruck

That should be Forum


28 posted on 04/01/2013 12:11:29 PM PDT by Starstruck (Question. What would the U.S. look like today if there was no 2nd Amendment.)
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To: DManA; Admin Moderator
Already posted here earlier today.

Search does work again.

Snicker....

29 posted on 04/01/2013 12:27:29 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (For Jay Carney - I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

I think you posted that to the wrong thread.


30 posted on 04/01/2013 12:32:11 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

Just kidding.....


31 posted on 04/01/2013 12:36:08 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (For Jay Carney - I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.)
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To: DManA
Who is this so called *representative of Free Republic*?

We only act when we are instructed by a czar.


32 posted on 04/01/2013 3:07:45 PM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: DManA

Parrotty?


33 posted on 04/01/2013 3:10:13 PM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: DManA

34 posted on 04/01/2013 3:23:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: DManA
Once a year they accept the invitation!


35 posted on 04/01/2013 5:47:46 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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