Cyberspace - (Ass Mess): Universities, historical archives, news agencies and law enforcement organizations around the world have applauded the decision to sell online reference site Wikipedia to the satirical website The Spoof! after universal acclaim that the parody provider has a better databank of comparable facts that any other information service.
At Oxford University today academic sources told the UK press that rather than using Wikipedia first and foremost to check "spurious and often seemingly non-connected hysterical facts and figures" they routinely preferred turning to The Spoof! as the first port of call to verify the sort of useless data that is so hard to come by in other, learned and approved sources.
And at the BBC World Service editors have admitted that rather than wait for the breaking news from wire services such as ReUterus or Associated Press they routinely waiting to see what The Spoof! was posting in its Latest Breaking News section "just to get a bit of perspective on reality."
"We know the White House now subscribes to The Spoof! to double-check data before formulating its policies - especially on hydrocarbons, warfare and political profiling," a Rose Garden source chuckled today.
Meanwhile at Buckingham Palace the response was somewhat frozty when the Lord Chamberlain Lord Luce-Cannon was quizzed about his reaction to today's news:
"Damned Bloody impertinence!" Luce-Cannon fumed.
"Always implying there's some sort of Nazi conspiracy going on in the Puppet Monarchy. I ask you.
"And just for the record, there are no dead bodies buried under the Palace patio. Never have been.
"As anybody who is anybody actually knows, all the corpses are rotting in the garden at Chequers. Apart from Lord Lucan who's been worm-fodder under 25 Buckingham Palace Road for over thirty years.
"So up yours at The Spoof!"
Old Fatty Mountbatten is completely nuts.
