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* As said above, [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] has a tendency to do this. When asked whether he thinks video games contribute to violent activities in youth, the screen flashes, "No, and I consider your argument misinformed," but he ''says'', "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131213003755/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6-Manhunt No, and go fuck yourselves, you ignorant scaremongering cockbags.]"
** ... and later in the same video:
{{quote|To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: "No chance, you unreasonable dicks."}}
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{{quote|"What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo."}}
* This is one of many tropes that ''[[FATAL]]'' provides an example of how not to use. The [[Did Not Do the Research|historically and mythologically accurate scholarship]] is interspersed with [[Refuge in Vulgarity|vulgarity that would make a drunken frat-boy wince]], with a note that this was added [[Dude, Not Funny|for humorous effect]]. "Experience an accumulation of gas in their rectum" indeed.
* [[The Onion|The A.V. Club]] column "[https://web.archive.org/web/20081202182551/http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/imdbates_the_dark_knight IMDBates]" examines internet flamewars with the same detail and language one might use to document a trial. For instance "''Reducing [the Joker] to such a base interpretation of [[Draco in Leather Pants|"Omigod he's hawt!!!"]] robs him of his effectiveness, and reveals a shallow understanding of the film. Plus, all you ladies are sicko pervs.''"
** This trope in general is what makes ''[http://www.theonion.com The Onion]'' hilarious, with its deadpan, well-articulated descriptions of banal/vulgar/stupid things. One memorable example, from [https://web.archive.org/web/20100219113517/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31564 Elementary Schooler Clearly Just Learned to Swear]; "In the past two days, Schweder has composed a ribald song titled 'Shit Shit Boobies,' covered three sheets of notebook paper with scatological malediction, and attempted to tell a joke about 'a girl who saw a boy's pussy'."
** Of all the mastery of this trope in ''[[The Onion]]'', perhaps the most memorable is the columnist Smoove B:
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** Not really that remarkable. Australians swear quite a bit more than Americans, and Labor party members even more so.
* Similar to the ''[[Law & Order]]'' example in the TV section above, when [[Moral Guardians|Jack Thompson]] sued [[2 Live Crew]] in the 80s, part of his prosecution included reading the group's lyrics to jury members... who then asked if it was all right to laugh during the trial. Needless to say, Jackie Boy didn't win this one.
* Five Thirty Eight (a political statistics blog) had [https://web.archive.org/web/20131008214839/http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/george-f-will-takes-on-science-loses.html this beautiful sentence] when talking about denial of climate change:
{{quote|"There's just one little problem with this story, which reappears every so often in conservative discourse on the environment. Specifically, it's a crock of shit."}}
* Alex Kozinski, a Judge (currently{{when}} Chief Judge) on the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, is famous for lacing his opinions with this trope. The most famous came in the 2002 case ''Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.'', arising over Mattel's accusation that [[Aqua]]'s song "Barbie Girl" turned [[Barbie]] into a sex object. Kozinski's opinion began as follows:
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