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Satirewire Calls It Quits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moment-of-silence dept.

stuyman writes "After almost three years, Andrew Marlatt, SatireWire's best (and only) employee is leaving the company. Says Marlatt "I all agreed it's time for me to move on...while the decision was certainly difficult, the meeting was actually quite harmonious. I brought doughnuts." He's going to start doing other things, and it has nothing to do with money. Read about it here. Satirewire has landed, please remain seated until we are fully stopped in the terminal area..." I owe Andrew some heavy laughter, and wish him good luck.

5 of 106 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Oh great! What am I supposed to read now? Salon by sien · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out Gagpipe. It's a daily updated list of a bunch of humour sites on the web. Great stuff.

  2. Re:Well by bartash · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually he *did* cite creative differences.
    It's called humor.

    --
    Read Epic the first RPG novel.
  3. obligatory links by Greenrider · · Score: 4, Informative

    The best laughs I've had from SatireWire:

    Are you tangential?
    Imagine there's no countries
    Should Marty Xerox Egypt?
    Least-used chat e-bbreviations
    Ask the startled
    Men do talk about relationships
    Canada has a waship? like for war?
    God names next chosen people; it's Jews again
    New "Segway Human Transporter" not tested for acronyms

  4. The Book by maggard · · Score: 4, Informative
    How about collating SatireWire's articles and publishing a book [...]
    That would be "Economy of Errors":

    From the creator of the award-winning Web site that USA Today calls "hilarious," Fast Company hails as "pure lunacy," and The New York Times calls "unfair to Argentina," comes ECONOMY OF ERRORS, the book that asks:

    • Did you know that truly loyal employees are increasingly rare, and can be sold to other companies at attractive prices?
    • Do you agree that in a tight labor market, managers should be allowed to slap employees pretty much whenever they want?
    • Have you ever cleared space for yourself on an airplane by turning to the stranger next to you and shouting, 'Good God! One of us is going to be sick in your seat!'?

    If your answer to any of these questions was, "I didn't realize Alan Greenspan ties interest rates to his cholesterol level," you should definitely buy ECONOMY OF ERRORS.

    WHAT'S INSIDE:

    • Typo Causes Companies to Merde
    • Kmart Gives Shoplifter Refunds
    • Interviews with Bill Gates, Roger Clemens, and classical rapper Yo Yo Ma Big Thang
    • Enron
    • Argentina
    • Mr. Clickwell
    • The poetry of e.e. commerce
    • Businesspeople with fish heads, and much more.

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    I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
  5. Re: actually he did by bracher · · Score: 2, Informative

    did you even read the article?!?

    "New Haven, Conn. -- Citing creative differences, SatireWire's founder and sole employee, Andrew Marlatt, announced that as of today, the site will no longer be updated."

    [emphasis added]

    - mark