People who think The Onion invented satire.

[Cort Haus]

These clueless twunts really piss me off. Show 'em a copy of, say, Private Eye from the 60's and they'll say "Pah, Onion rip-off". Tossers.

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[ZEE]

pic or it didn't happen.

[Dauphin]

Try Punch.

[Elok]

Or Jonathan Swift. (cue Molly or GePap one-upping me with a reference to the ancient Sumerian "The Foibles of Ut-Geshenak")

[Aeson]

Satyrs were invented by WoW

[SlowwHand]

Ravi Shankar.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Or Jonathan Swift.

Clearly just a shameless rip-off of Aristophanes.

[Victor Galis]

Originally posted by Aeson
Satyrs were invented by WoW

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/i-hope-you-like-text/

[Dr Strangelove]

How about the National Lampoon? Punch of course pre-dates them all. Is Punch still being published?

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Try Punch.

Somewhere in my parents' cellar is a set of Punch volumes from the 1900's. Must be worth a bit by now.

[Q Classic]

The Onion ripped off 2001-2008, but 10 years early.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/20...you-like-text/

Of course, if you're going to go there, Blizzard really should sue Peter Jackson for ripping them off like that. He even called them "orcs," jeez...

[Hueij]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Ravi Shankar.

But without Gerorge Harrison we would never have heard of Ravi Shankar or satire...

Ravi's daughter on the other hand...

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Aeson
Satyrs were invented by WoW

But it took nymphos to put them to good use.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Elok


Of course, if you're going to go there, Blizzard really should sue Peter Jackson for ripping them off like that. He even called them "orcs," jeez...

...which were invented by Tolkien, yes?

What really tickles me is that Wizards of the Coast (of D&D 4th Edition gongshow fame) are trying to copyright the word "elf". Good luck with that!