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==Joke entries==
Tongue-in-cheek joke entries in something that would like to be thought of as an encyclopedia are a really bad idea. 

It doesn't really matter whether critics get the joke or fail to get the joke or get the joke but pretend to fail to get it.

It doesn't really matter whether sincere seekers of information get the joke or fall for it.

It's just a really bad idea.

Really bad. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 18:45, 27 February 2007 (EST)

: Dpbsmith, your point is almost always correct.  Absolutely correct.  But if there ever was an exception to the rule, this would seem to qualify.

: I had no role in this prank.  But I am amused by it.  Apparently this entry is a conservative parody of environmentalists.  However, liberal blogs intent on mocking this website failed to get the joke.  They fell for it hook, line and sinker.  Now, I don't like to fool anyone, and I wasn't behind this.  But I can't deny being amused by thousands of liberal bloggers trying to ridicule Conservapedia based on a joke about themselves.

: Their mockery rose to such levels that a Wired News reporter called me this afternoon to interview me about Conservapedia, and specifically about this entry.  Really, this is too funny even to describe further.

: When the Soviet Union fell and was auctioning off many things, I think Christopher Buckley circulated a (phony) news story about auctioning off the body of Lenin.  One or all of the major news networks fell for the joke.  Now perhaps that shouldn't be funny and there were angry words afterwards.  But sometimes we all need to lighten up a bit.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 18:56, 27 February 2007 (EST)

::I'm inclined to agree. It would be nice to see some of the blog entries which bought it, though; perhaps you could add some links to the article? Or place some here, if you think that's inappropriate. [[User:Tsumetai|Tsumetai]] 05:13, 1 March 2007 (EST)

:::By "bought it", you mean thought it was a part of this site?  or "didn't get the parody"?  heck, when I first saw it, I thought it was vandalism, pure and simple.  Kind of funny to discover it ''was'' part of the site, and intentional. PS, I agree, "we all need to lighten up a bit" - can I quote you on that?[[User:Human|Human]] 00:29, 12 May 2007 (EDT)