I didn’t know what the “law” was in reference to (when it popped up in that thread about those so-called Bible “editors”) until I Googled it. For those not in the know, it refers to parodies of religious sites/beliefs/etc. which on the surface are indistinguishible from the real thing.
So, what other examples of this Law in action can you find or cite? I was browsing Rate Your Music just now, when I saw that someone reviewed something called “Molesting the Decapitated” by Devourment, with some real fun-loving song titles like “Self Disembowelment” and “Festering Vomitous Mass.” I immediately thought: “This can’t possibly be for real,” but it probably is, but I am sure there are genuine brutal death metal parody bands out there too.
What other possible examples of stuff are out there which are so wayyy over the top (and out there!) that they must be parodies (and, if they are not, are conclusive proof that the parties in question are certifiably and completely off their collective nuts).
[If this thread stays focused on pop culture works then a future move to CS is thus allowed.]
(I’m one of a small handful of people to have had exchanges in threads with both Nathan Poe and Gaudere, and hope someday to hit the Internet Triple Crown by encountering Mike Godwin.
landoverbaptist.com is a good parody site. At least… I think it is? The creator of the Flying Spaghetti Monster seems to have started his own religion as well.
A funny thing, that. I have a book at home entitled Drawing Down the Moon, in which the author posits that even “parody” religions (I believe she used the Discordians as an example) become true faiths with living deities if enough people take the thing seriously. So who knows? Maybe in a hundred years we’ll see little settlements of Pastafarians living and worshipping in their own noodly way a few miles up the road from the Amish folks.