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* CanadaDoesNotExist: How UsefulNotes/NewZealand is mentioned in one sentence: "UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}'s Canada".
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* QuirkyNeighbourCountry: How UsefulNotes/NewZealand is mentioned in one sentence: "UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}'s Canada".
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* CanadaEh: Canadian contributor Samantha Bee has a recurring feature called "Would You Mind If I Told You How We Do It in Canada?", mocking Canada's reputation for being polite, unassuming, and boring.
** Don't forget her own full length book, ''Pardon Me, but May I Interest You in a Book About Canada?'', advertised in the back.
** And of course, UsefulNotes/NewZealand is mentioned in one sentence: "UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}'s Canada".
** Don't forget her own full length book, ''Pardon Me, but May I Interest You in a Book About Canada?'', advertised in the back.
** And of course, UsefulNotes/NewZealand is mentioned in one sentence: "UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}'s Canada".
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* CanadaEh: Canadian contributor Samantha Bee has a recurring feature called "Would You Mind If I Told You CanadaDoesNotExist: How We Do It in Canada?", mocking Canada's reputation for being polite, unassuming, and boring.
** Don't forget her own full length book, ''Pardon Me, but May I Interest You in a Book About Canada?'', advertised in the back.
** And of course,UsefulNotes/NewZealand is mentioned in one sentence: "UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}'s Canada".
** Don't forget her own full length book, ''Pardon Me, but May I Interest You in a Book About Canada?'', advertised in the back.
** And of course,
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* CourteousCanadian:
** Canadian contributor Samantha Bee has a recurring feature called "Would You Mind If I Told You How We Do It in Canada?", mocking Canada's reputation for being polite, unassuming, and boring.
** Her own full length book, ''Pardon Me, but May I Interest You in a Book About Canada?'', advertised in the back.
** Canadian contributor Samantha Bee has a recurring feature called "Would You Mind If I Told You How We Do It in Canada?", mocking Canada's reputation for being polite, unassuming, and boring.
** Her own full length book, ''Pardon Me, but May I Interest You in a Book About Canada?'', advertised in the back.
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* StrawmanNewsMedia: The media get a ''huge'' TakeThat in the form of a one-page rant about how they have abdicated their responsibilities of fact-checking government processes in favor of ratings. The next page (a re-do of that chapter) claimed that it was fueled by sleep deprivation and Red Bull.
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* StrawmanNewsMedia: The media get a ''huge'' TakeThat in the form of a one-page rant about how they have abdicated their responsibilities of fact-checking government processes in favor of ratings.ratings (complete with a still image of [[Film/{{Network}} Howard Beale losing his mind on air]]). The next page (a re-do of that chapter) claimed that it was fueled by sleep deprivation and Red Bull.
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Sarcasm Mode isn't about any instance of sarcasm
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* SarcasmMode: Frequently.
--> 1300 BC: God gives Ten Commandments to Israelites, making them His Chosen People and granting them eternal protection under Divine Law. Nothing bad ever happens to Jews again.
--> 1300 BC: God gives Ten Commandments to Israelites, making them His Chosen People and granting them eternal protection under Divine Law. Nothing bad ever happens to Jews again.
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* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: In the section about Australia, they attempt to translate the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda". Whoever was writing ends up giving up when they can't figure out what the hell half the things in the song mean. "'English-speaking' country my ass."
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* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: In the section about Australia, they attempt to translate the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda". Whoever was writing ends up giving up when they can't figure out what the hell half the things in the song mean. "'English-speaking' country my ass.[[HypocriticalHumour ass]]."
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* ShadowGovernment: The original hardcover edition came with a parodic pullout poster outlining the separate branches and departments of "The Shadow Government" that all operate in secret beneath the three co-branches of US government.
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* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: In the section about Australia, they attempt to translate the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda". Whoever was writing ends up giving up when they can't figure out what the hell half the things in the song mean. "'English-speaking' country my ass."
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* AuthorTract: ''ComicStrip/MallardFillmore'' is mocked as one. The eponymous character rants about environmental regulations and income taxes until the last panel, in which he realizes that he forgot to tell a joke.
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* TheAbridgedHistory: pretty much what this book provides.
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* VicePresidentWho: The "Welcome Letter" signed by all the former Vice Presidents claims that the duties of the office are so minimal that "there's no reason you shouldn't spend the better part of your day in a drunken stupor." The Presidential Library spread depicts the former VP as a janitor.
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* NoteFromEdNoteFromEd: A portion of the "Would You Mind If I Told You How We Do It In Canada?" essay about Parliament is "deleted due to extreme boringness" by the editor.
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* UglySlavicWomen: It hits both ends of this trope: "Russian women are known for three things: their beauty, their heartiness, and the speed with which one turns into the other." This is illustrated by a picture of a young, attractive woman, captioned "Miss Vladivostok", and an old crone, captioned "Miss Vladivostok, [some implausibly short amount of time] later".
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* BloodOnTheDebateFloor: The book claims that after Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner half to death on the floor of the Senate, only "wiffle canes" were allowed in the Senate.
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* BloodOnTheDebateFloor: The book claims that after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner half to death on the floor of the Senate, Senate floor]], only "wiffle canes" were allowed in the Senate.
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---> "Were You Aware?" That the term "Did You Know?" is copyrighted by another publisher?
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---> "Were You Aware?" That the term "Did You Know?" [[WritingAroundTrademarks is copyrighted by another publisher?publisher]]?
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* ItsNotPornItsArt: The book mentions Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's famous quote about recognizing pornography ("I know it when I see it") and adds: "Stewart spent the remainder of his judgeship obsessed with better defining pornography, eventually settling on slightly more graphic characterization: "that which gives me wood."
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** It also has a faux essay on "How to [[AmericanPoliticalSystem Filibuster]]" that's basically a page of footnotes, footnotes within footnotes, symbols that look like footnotes within footnotes...
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** It also has a faux essay on "How to [[AmericanPoliticalSystem [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem Filibuster]]" that's basically a page of footnotes, footnotes within footnotes, symbols that look like footnotes within footnotes...
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* AndAllIGotWasThisLousyTShirt: The book has a photo of a 1800 presidential campaign shirt (fake, obviously) that reads "I endorsed the candidacy of Thomas Jefferson, for which I was inadequately compensated with this tunic of poor qualitie!"
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* DirtyCoward: The book claims that while Nathan Hale did say "I only regret that I have but one life to give my country." he continued with "But what I really regret is that I'm giving it now." And then began the begging.
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Now has a sequel [[SpiritualSuccessor of sorts]]: ''[[EarthTheBook Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race]]''.
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Now has a sequel [[SpiritualSuccessor of sorts]]: ''[[EarthTheBook ''[[Literature/EarthTheBook Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race]]''.
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**Even after the restart, it's worth noting that the ensuing chapter on the media is the longest one in the book.
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* TakeThat: A section for mock political cartoons aims specifically at comics like the conservative-leaning ''ComicStrip/MallardFillmore'' and the liberal-leaning ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}''. The MF stand-in ends the strip with "Oops! I forgot to tell a joke", a stab at Fillmore's tendency to go on {{Author Tract}}s - and faux-Doonesbury is simply three panels of the White House with absolutely nothing happening, mocking the strip's dry penchant for abstract political metaphor.
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* TakeThat: A section for mock political cartoons aims specifically at comics like the conservative-leaning ''ComicStrip/MallardFillmore'' and the liberal-leaning ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}''. The MF stand-in ends the strip with "Oops! I forgot to tell a joke", a stab at Fillmore's tendency to go on {{Author Tract}}s - and faux-Doonesbury is simply three panels of the White House with absolutely nothing happening, mocking the strip's dry penchant for abstract political metaphor. Even the professor making notes in the Teacher's Edition gets in on the action, noting that the ''Mallard Fillmore'' parody "accurately portrays the strip's typical level of humor".
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* TheQueensLatin: Naturally, the audiobook has the speech in the Roman Senate, as well as UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}'s Bucket List read by Creator/JohnOliver.
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* QueensLatin: Naturally, the audiobook has the speech in the Roman Senate, as well as UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}'s Bucket List read by Creator/JohnOliver.
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* AudioAdaptation: Mostly narrated by Jon Stewart with the chapter titles and some sections read by Creator/StephenColbert. Creator/SamanthaBee also narrates the "Would You Mind If I Told You How We Do It in Canada?" sections.
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* AudioAdaptation: Mostly narrated by Jon Stewart with the chapter titles and some sections read by Creator/StephenColbert. Creator/SamanthaBee also narrates the "Would You Mind If I Told You How We Do It in Canada?" sections. Some parts are also read by Creator/RobCorddry and Creator/EdHelms.
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