Miscellaneous

?satire     1: a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn     2: trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly.?  Merriam Webster?s Collegiate Dictionary 1035 (10th ed. 2002).

?I am always excited and think I am about to see some great and epic satire and commentary every time I read a pleading which begins ?COMES NOW...?, a letter which begins ?Enclosed herewith please find...? or contract which uses ?said? frequently. I am always disappointed when I realize it's intended to be a serious document.? Dan Hull, What About Paris? (Jan. 16, 2009).