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** One reason that ''Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry'' is often found on the "Travel" shelves in bookstores is that people who know it's a parody think it's amusing to put it there.
* Many argue that [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''White Man's Burden'' is an example of this. Others don't buy that for a minute.
** One of the reasons for its implicit message being read as "now your boot smells bad too" is the context: on the British side, they had never-ending troubles after the East India Company converted from a [[Pragmatic Villain|conquering, profit-extracting enterprise]] to a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|militant sanctimony club]] for some reason liked by the foreigners ''even less'', and on American side, some versions refer to the [[Philippine–American War]] in the dedication, which at the time was an infamous enough affair (even in USA) to sour any "compliments" it touches.
* [http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/lossiel.htm "The Tale of Lossiel"] pretends to be an excerpt from an unpublished volume of the ''[[The History of Middle Earth|History of Middle Earth]]''. Look past the imitation of [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s prose and his son's editing, and note how the story conspicuously avoids using the words [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|"white" and "snow"]]...
** In fact, a good chunk of that site is just a series of Stealth Parodies (the E-Text Project and the Synopsis being a direct parody and full of misinformation, respectively). They supposedly managed to fool the [http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/blanchett.htm London Sunday Times], but due to the dodgy nature of the rest of the site it's uncertain if this is satire too.
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