Poe's Law
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Poe's Law is an aphorism 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 – or sufficiently extreme in its extrapolation of an ideology – as to be indistinguishable from parody. (Such parody would then be a form of reductio ad absurdum.)
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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".
- as of 2011-01-15, an article on this topic was in place
- RationalWiki