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To: Father Terrence who wrote (45715)7/15/1999 2:36:00 PM
From: E  Respond to of 108807
 
Did the author of it get paid, dear? I think if the author got paid, s/he must have turned in an actual article, don't you?

It's this way:

--article is real

--events described in real article are fictitious

--name for this literary conceit is satire

(Just so you don't think for a second you're getting away with your taradiddle, whopper, trumped up, cock and bull, fake, (but not fictitious) argument.)

'Tarradiddle' is nice, and I'd never heard it before.


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