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It's easy enough to mock books with titles like "Mommy, Why Is There a Server in the House?" or "Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball," but the covers are almost self-parodies.
Dear Book Lover Cynthia Crossen 2010
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April 10, 2010, 7: 12 am neimoller says: unintentional self-parodies of ancestor worship
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There are many other books and stories that vie for inclusion, most significantly the many apocryphal writings by Arthur Conan Doyle himself not among the sacred 60: plays, commentaries, self-parodies and pre- and sub-Holmesian detectives.
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The average foreign food diner here does not know decent food and therefore the restaurant reviews of eateries featuring "foreign" or "exotic" food by self-proclaimed local restaurant critics are laughable self-parodies.
Page 3 2009
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This video Auto-Tune the News uses great technical trickery to take a TV feed and turn the speakers into singing self-parodies.
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Rather, I was curious to take his measure as a human being, which many forget he still is, despite the caricatures and self-parodies.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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But since Mr Wright and Mr Pegg are essentially parodying self-parodies (see Con Air ad infinitum), they have also smartly kinked up their conceit by setting most of the film in a sleepy village that might as well be called Ye Old English Towne, thereby wedding one of the most irritating British exports (see Calendar Girls ad nauseam) to one of the most absurd American ones.
GreenCine Daily: Interviews. Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. 2007
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Some of my favourite musicians make music that I dislike, but I'd rather they try new things and move in new directions than endlessly repeat themselves and become self-parodies.
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Those who claim to be Jews in order to discredit the nation that embodies that identity - are self-parodies.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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To make matters more complicated, whereas Yankovic could once mine such inexhaustible icons as Jackson and Nirvana for laughs, he now has to contend with the likes of Jessica Simpson or Kevin Federline—celebrities who are more or less already self-parodies.
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