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Ogden Nash wrote a parody of a familiar story of a lone hero who prevails against odds {i.e. Jack the Giant Killer}
"Adventures of Isabel"

Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;
The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,
The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous.
The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you,
How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you!
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry.
Isabel didn't scream or scurry.
She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,
Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.
Once in a night as black as pitch
Isabel met a wicked old witch.
the witch's face was cross and wrinkled,
The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled.
Ho, ho, Isabel! the old witch crowed,
I'll turn you into an ugly toad!
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry,
Isabel didn't scream or scurry,
She showed no rage and she showed no rancor,
But she turned the witch into milk and drank her.
Isabel met a hideous giant,
Isabel continued self reliant.
The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,
He had one eye in the middle of his forhead.
Good morning, Isabel, the giant said,
I'll grind your bones to make my bread.
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry,
Isabel didn't scream or scurry.
She nibled the zwieback that she always fed off,
And when it was gone, she cut the giant's head off.
Isabel met a troublesome doctor,
He punched and he poked till he really shocked her.
The doctor's talk was of coughs and chills
And the doctor's satchel bulged with pills.
The doctor said unto Isabel,
Swallow this, it will make you well.
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry,
Isabel didn't scream or scurry.
She took those pills from the pill concocter,
And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.5.89.228 talk (talk) 12:54, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

   I can't recall why i went, or how i wandered, to the accompanying article. In anycase, it made my day, and then put (from the start) a big smile back on the face of my weary partner (who a bit rarely has more than a minute's patience to listen to what i try to insist just has to be heard). Bravo, Ogden; brava, ip-colleague.
--JerzyA (talk) 22:09 & :25, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Ping me for response. I nerfed the archive because this gets very little notice, and really doesn't need to be archived, period. Also, I had to WP:DENY one of the archives because there was no oversight. Also the archive system was broken, there is circa 2009 content n the 2014 archive. 03:02, 1 November 2017 (UTC)L3X1 (distænt write)

Is parody the same thing as lampoon, caricature, etc. It's very confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CyberticNaijaboy (talk • contribs) 14:08, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

   Confusion (etomologically, "melting together") is IMO often invoked as a result of failure to grasp the need for vagueness (i.e. broad generalization) that is inherantly necessary in human communication, and this probably (IM-enormously-HO) is why the responsible aspects of philosophical deconstruction are so slippery, and seemingly (perhaps necessarily, inherantly) vague, and -- just as is (see quantum mechanics) in particular, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle) -- not just wierdly but ically true, and indispensible. There are many well-understood uses of logical and even mathematical precision, but i'm beginning to conjecture that the most profound principles are among the most obviously but indispensibly paradoxical ones. (C'mon, folks: time dilation is nonsenical. And it's real, and provable. And inherantly necessary, not least bcz almost all usable physics eventually goes wrong without it, and (wait for it) it is Successfully managed in GPS systems -- even the ones you and i depend on (e.g. if not your cellphone, still the satelites it constantly relies on). But, i repeat, it is inherantly, inescapably nonsense, and IMO madness lies ahead for those trying to understand it (rather than just the mathematics that works, but hardly really explains even the physics, let alone anything else). We're just stuck in a bizarre universe. "I hear there's a really neat universe, right nextdoor."

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