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Suggestion by Sid to describe Poe's Law and its two corollaries:

  1. At least one person will mistake parody for serious fundamentalism
  2. Much parody will become indistinguishable from the real thing for anyone
  3. Sincere expressions of fundamentalism will seem like parody to less crazy people

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current23:11, 24 August 2008Thumbnail for version as of 23:11, 24 August 2008350 × 270 (10 KB)Sid (talk | contribs)
19:58, 24 August 2008Thumbnail for version as of 19:58, 24 August 2008350 × 270 (9 KB)Sid (talk | contribs)Suggestion by Sid to describe Poe's Law and its two corollaries: #At least one person will mistake parody for serious fundamentalism #Much parody will become indistinguishable from the real thing for ''anyone'' #Sincere expressions of fun