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Website Actually a Parody

FLORIDA -- Once again, Daily Skew founders had to battle a barrage of allegations that everything on their website is true.

“I’m amazed at the number of times Tony and I had to put out fires. I guess it’s true -- people just accept everything they read on the Internet to be true,” Damian said from his cell phone at a harem in Saudi Arabia.

“Most of the content is a parody or satire, not to be taken seriously. Even the editorials are no exception to this rule. We have no desire to infringe any copyrights, promote extremist politics, hurt anyone's feelings, or encourage negative actions against authority figures,” he said.

The brouhaha occurred when Jessica Lynn Blatt wanted to know why the Osama Bin Laden DVD was not available last December.

In a letter to the website, Ms. Blatt expressed her outrage that she has been waiting all these months for a “DVD that never went into production, it seems”, she wrote.

In addition, Nancy Kilpatrik of Ontario, Canada wrote, “Juan Arasa is not the president of Argentina, and as far as I can tell by watching CNN and MSNBC, he was not even involved in the recent military coup.”

Finally, Mike Morgan of Davie, Florida suspected that “Tashman Technologies” was an actual company that one of the Daily Skew owners works at. “According to my research, although Tashman Technologies is actually a fake name for Lake-Side Graphics and Art Design.  All of the events, stories, and characters depicted are based on real occurrences from that office in Hialeah.”

“Again, let me stress that in no way shape or form is Tashman based on Lake-Side. My co-workers are nothing like any of those characters. Tony and I made them all up one night at a Japanese restaurant,” Damian laughed.

“I kindly wrote back to the people that were apparently mislead about stories that were taken to be fact,” Damian said. “I explained that a parody is a ludicrous imitation, generally for comic effect but sometimes for ridicule, of the style of someone or something. The humor depends upon the reader's familiarity with the original, which should be recognized by the general public. In fact, if you actually took the time to read this entire article to the end, you should realize that it is pure satire, and a parody of a parody.”