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Quote: BuckwheatsButt

I recently did a spoof story WAS ADOLF HITLER A GOOD JOKE TELLER?
The story was about Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goering, and Josef Goebbels sitting around after hours in the Chancellory building getting snockered and telling jokes. The premise was, that the office dictaphone was accidently left 'on' and the impromptu party was recorded and the wax cylinder found 65 years later, translated and printed....Here's a take:

Hitler: Why don't those Jewish cannibals eat Germans?
Himmler: Got me mein Furher!
Hitler: Because we give then gas!

<Fists pound table-glasses rattle as foursome roars in laughter>

Goering: That was funnier than a screen door on an Italian U-boat!

<laughter>

Hitler: Stop it! Stop it! You're killing me

Goebbels: OK OK Did you know London refuses to publish pictures of Churchill with a cigar in his mouth?

Hitler: Why Herman?

Goebbels: Because of the explicit sexual images law!

<sound of body hitting floor and skidding chair-Howls of laughter>

Story wasn't published-Mark yanked it

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Strange. He wouldn't go and invade Poland all over again just because of that story. Would he?.....

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Quote: Earl Grey

Strange. He wouldn't go and invade Poland all over again just because of that story. Would he?.....

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Mark is frightened of reverberations at his family home in Berchtesgarten!

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Quote: Jaggedone

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Quote: Earl Grey

Strange. He wouldn't go and invade Poland all over again just because of that story. Would he?.....

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Mark is frightened of reverberations at his family home in Berchtesgarten!

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And Eva probably wouldn't be too pleased either.

Now I know why he wears those shorts and slaps himself so much....

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Quote: Earl Grey

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Quote: Jaggedone

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Quote: Earl Grey

Strange. He wouldn't go and invade Poland all over again just because of that story. Would he?.....

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Mark is frightened of reverberations at his family home in Berchtesgarten!

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And Eva probably wouldn't be too pleased either.

Now I know why he wears those shorts and slaps himself so much....

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It's the Lederhosen and Britches that cause the twitches!

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Quote: Jaggedone

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Quote: Earl Grey

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Quote: Jaggedone

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Quote: Earl Grey

Strange. He wouldn't go and invade Poland all over again just because of that story. Would he?.....

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Mark is frightened of reverberations at his family home in Berchtesgarten!

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And Eva probably wouldn't be too pleased either.

Now I know why he wears those shorts and slaps himself so much....

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It's the Lederhosen and Britches that cause the twitches!

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Sour Kraut?

Hardly surprising really. But they do have over 20,000 words for sausage....

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Quote: Earl Grey

Strange. He wouldn't go and invade Poland all over again just because of that story. Would he?.....

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My uncle Horst thought the French were realy friendly, but he didn't think they
needed to wave "hi" with both hands!

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Quote: queen mudder

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Quote: smurfette


does anyone know where exactly we may locate the guidelines as to acceptable subject matter as well as the criteria used to determine whether an item is suitable for publication?

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Yes!

Right Here:

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thanks, qm

but two of the points seem contradictory to me:

"14. Feel pretty much free to post what you like. If there is a problem we won't immediately ban you or assume anything about your future contribution. We will always attempt to inform you if action is taken against any of your work, by sending you emails where applicable. Refer also to 9). But try not to be too twisted in your humor."

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" 8. You must not post any information which is overly offensive or inflammatory. It is at the discretion of The Spoof to decide which information contravenes this policy, and your work may as a result be edited or deleted."

how can we determine what will be considered as "overly offensive or inflammatory"?

there have been items i have personally objected to for various reasons, and i simply choose to avoid them; however, i do understand that mr lowton is responsible for the contents of the spoof.

are there no concrete guidelines we may use to measure our work prior to submission and summary deletion?

Click on the Decency Warning page links for further info Smurfette.

Generally stories saying someone is dead when they are not are not allowed, ditto rape stories, or stuff of a really graphic or lurid nature.

I see the other thread in Writers Discus has vanished!

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Quote: queen mudder

Click on the Decency Warning page links for further info Smurfette.

Generally stories saying someone is dead when they are not are not allowed, ditto rape stories, or stuff of a really graphic or lurid nature.

I see the other thread in Writers Discus has vanished!

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thanks so much for the information and heads up.

the removal of the thread is most likely because the item in question is now located in the magazine section under "les barrettes day"

(it would probably have been published there immediately if i had written it as another letter address to "dear father frank" rather than a "letter to the editor")

but i still think it would be highly advantageous to provide an "insider" forum for rejected work accessible only to our peers registered here

i truly appreciate the time you have spent directing me to the guidelines; hopefully, in the future my material will improve to the point it is always deemed acceptable, but there actually have been only a handful of items in question, two of which have been satisfactorily resolved

again, mille grazie,

becca

This the very next to the very next to the last time that I try to get a serious answer out of you people.

I feel used, shoddy, rode hard and put away wet.

Col. Juan, do not attempt to get a straight answer out of these people of the spoofing kind. They have minds like black powder. Once they go off task--or subject--God alone knows where it will end. Or if it will end.

I'm going back to being nasty and juvenile. Afterall, it's what got me in the top 20 to begin with. Shall we begin the begine? Again.

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Quote: Frankie The J

This the very next to the very next to the last time that I try to get a serious answer out of you people.

I feel used, shoddy, rode hard and put away wet.

Col. Juan, do not attempt to get a straight answer out of these people of the spoofing kind. They have minds like black powder. Once they go off task--or subject--God alone knows where it will end. Or if it will end.

I'm going back to being nasty and juvenile. Afterall, it's what got me in the top 20 to begin with. Shall we begin the begine? Again.

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oops, sorry for hijacking your thread, frankie....

please forgive?

in return, i shall forgive your dalliances, however brief they have been



btw, i consider myself neither an author or a writer at this point; i consider myself a journalist in training

My dalliances?

You are my favorit JIT!

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Quote: Frankie The J

My dalliances?

You are my favorit JIT!

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if JIT is shorthand for idjit, i proclaim myself guilty as charged!

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Quote: smurfette

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Quote: Frankie The J

My dalliances?

You are my favorit JIT!

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if JIT is shorthand for idjit, i proclaim myself guilty as charged!

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Talk about going off on tangents, Frankie did you get the curve or miss the exit?

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Quote: Earl Grey

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Quote: Earl Grey

Strange. He wouldn't go and invade Poland all over again just because of that story. Would he?.....

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Mark is frightened of reverberations at his family home in Berchtesgarten!

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And Eva probably wouldn't be too pleased either.

Now I know why he wears those shorts and slaps himself so much....

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It's the Lederhosen and Britches that cause the twitches!

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Sour Kraut?

Hardly surprising really. But they do have over 20,000 words for sausage....

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After drinking beer and eating sauerkraut I always feel like invading a country or two, so who can blame them.

If The Spoof counts as a publisher, I am an author.

Otherwise, I am a pensmith, which is not so bad, and I am not so bad at it.

As far as playing with myself, define "too much."

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Quote: The San Francisco Onion

If The Spoof counts as a publisher, I am an author.

Otherwise, I am a pensmith, which is not so bad, and I am not so bad at it.

As far as playing with myself, define "too much."

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We know it! Self opinionated people tend to be tossers!

I dunno. I never wrote anything before and never took writing classes. People have told me that I post some pretty funny stuff so I decided to give it a shot here to see for myself if I have any talent for writing short stories. I enjoy writing erotica which I've been told I'm good at.

nellabella:

Welcome to The Spoof.

Isn't Erotica Beethovens Third Symphony?

Cheers,
Philbert

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I dunno. I never wrote anything before and never took writing classes. People have told me that I post some pretty funny stuff so I decided to give it a shot here to see for myself if I have any talent for writing short stories. I enjoy writing erotica which I've been told I'm good at.

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Welcome to the Spoof nellabella.

Erotica is okay, providing it isn't too erotic.

Me, I'm just an old fashioned hack who drinks too much, smokes too much and wears a grubby raincoat.

Love it!

Regards

Skoob.

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Quote: Philbert of Macadamia

nellabella:

Welcome to The Spoof.

Isn't Erotica Beethovens Third Symphony?

Cheers,
Philbert

We'll never know his true feeling for Napoleon. Thank you for the warm welcome.

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Quote: Skoob1999

Welcome to the Spoof nellabella.

Erotica is okay, providing it isn't too erotic.

Me, I'm just an old fashioned hack who drinks too much, smokes too much and wears a grubby raincoat.

Love it!

Regards

Skoob.

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Just enough to make you want a cool shower. Thanks for the welcome. BTW - you're a true artist if you drink too much smoke too much and don't change your clothes enough.

nellabella:


Welcome again, you fit right in!

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Quote: Philbert of Macadamia

nellabella:

Welcome to The Spoof.

Isn't Erotica Beethovens Third Symphony?

Cheers,
Philbert

We'll never know his true feeling for Napoleon. Thank you for the warm welcome.

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Welcome Nellabella!

I have a feeling you're going to fit right in with this crowd.

BUCK