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{{quote| ''"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout."''}}
Needless to say many people found Swift's little joke about [[Dead Baby Comedy|how the poor could sell their children to the rich for food]] to be [[A Worldwide Punomenon|in poor taste.]] [[Dude, Not Funny|Others were shocked and appalled]]. [[
The original can be found [http://www.fullbooks.com/A-Modest-Proposal.html here].
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* [[Baby Factory]]: Technically baby farms, but the same basic idea.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: It ''starts out'' normally enough...
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: ''A Modest Proposal'' is satire.
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Completely averted.
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* [[Kill the Poor]]: More like, "Make The Poor Sell Their Children For Food," but you get the idea.
* [[People Farm]]: its the whole point
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* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: Near the end, Swift lists out a series of efficient, intelligent measures that would ''actually'' help the entire English economy, and adds that of course these are entirely too outlandish to ''ever'' work.
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