# Parody threads. In pit?

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Waitaminnit… Somebody remind me: What was the rationale for the rule that parody threads go in the Pit?

That’s the case when a parody of a thread by another poster (or the comments of other posters in such a thread). Because you are basically ridiculing other posters, it properly goes in the Pit. (It’s also why a link is required, so people know what is going on.)

Other kinds of parodies don’t need to go in the Pit. They would probably go in MPSIMS (or if a literary work could go in Cafe Society).

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> (I am reminded of [this classic parody thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=534691) (The Marmite Horror) that was posted in the Pit.)

Just because it was a parody of Lovecraft doesn’t mean it needed to go in the Pit. I would guess it was put in the Pit because the OP was Pitting Marmite.

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