Life is Funny! Maybe it all depends upon how you look at it. Kick it in the nuts before it kicks you. My Lampoon Life was created from the idea that everything in life is funny because of all the assholes in it. This definition of lampoon comes from dictionary.com
lam·poon [lam-poon]
noun
1. a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
Oh well, shit happens, sometimes you just have to say fuck it!
That's what it means in a contemporary English dictionary sense. But actually the term is Icelandic -- from around 1200 AD.
ReplyDeleteThere at their annual meeting of the clans, they would have the judges mete out punishments for various offenses -- usually it was exile for the worst offenders.
But for misdemeanors, the sentence was to be "lampooned" -- i.e. to stand before the assembled throng and have everyone hurl insults at you.
True!
The Harvard Lampoon was, to my knowlege, the first satiric publication of the sort in the USA. And the term was further popularized by John Landis with his National Lampoon movies (Animal House being the most famous.)
And then, of course, there was the Chicago Lampoon -- started 3 years ago and still lampooning strong.