I so enjoyed Mad Magazine when I was in high school. It's a bit sad that we can continue to count on too many people taking the bait in this kind of satire.

I Love the Internet. When I wrote about niggardly and denigrate the other day, I remembered a Mad Magazine lark that used outlandish sounding words to seemingly implicate the opponent's character.Well, I did a Google search and easily found it. It was written by Bill Garvin in December 1970. Entitled 'Guaranteed Effective All-Occasion Non-Slanderous Political Smear Speech' it is still a hoot. Check it out. One of my favorites:

Let us take a very quick look at that childhood: It is a known fact that, on a number of occasions, he emulated older boys at a certain playground. It is also known that his parents not only permitted him to masticate in their presence, but even urged him to do so. Most explicable of all, this man who poses as a paragon of virtue exacerbated his own sister when they were both teenagers!

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