We discovered today that, in Wikipedia’s entry for Satire, the Ig Nobel Prizes are the first exemplar of one of the two kinds of satire. The entry reads: Horatian vs Juvenalian Satirical literature can commonly be categorized as either Horatian or Juvenalian,[27][need quotation to verify] although the two are not entirely mutually exclusive. Horatian Horatian satire, […]
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Punchy dreams of anti-gravity: Underpants
John Ptak found this and other high-spirited drawings in an 1879 Punch satire about the stream of wonders invented by (or at least credited to) Thomas Edison. Depicted here: “anti-gravitation” underwear: