Poe's Law

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Overview

Poe's Law is an adage which states, in its original form:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.

More generally, it refers to any speech which is sufficiently dogmatic as to be indistinguishable from parody.

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  • Wikipedia
    • as of 2009-06-29, article had been deleted multiple times
    • as of 2009-10-10, redirects to a page which lists Edgar Allen Poe's law "That there is a maximum desirable length for poems".
  • RationalWiki
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