Kent Pitman - Common Lisp, the Common Lisp HyperSpec, (a hypertext conversion) and the document that became ISO ISLISP. He is currently setting up a new organization for developing standards called Substandards. Kent Pitman was also the author of Another Way Out a parody of the CBS Daytime series The Young and the Restless. Further information and a list of publications can be found at his personal home page: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/index.html.
Kitsch - always, in the interest of signalling one's class status. Avant-Garde and Kitsch The word became popularized in the 1930s by the theorists Clement Greenberg, Hermann Broch, and Theodor Adorno, who each sought to define avant garde and kitsch as being opposites. To the art world of the time, kitsch was percieved as a threat. The arguments of all three relied on an implicit definition of kitsch as a type of false consciousness. "False consciousness" is a Marxist term meaning a mindset present within the structures of capitalism that is misguided as to its own desires and wants--it is supposed there is a disconnect between the real state of affairs and the way they phenomenally appear. Adorno percieved this in terms of what he called the "culture industry", where the art is.
Veggie Tales - story of the prophet Jonah's mission to Nineveh, the Larry-Boy series (originally a Batman parody), and 3-2-1 Penguins. Characters Bob the Tomato Larry the Cucumber Archibald Asparagus Junior Asparagus (and his parents, unrelated to Archibald) Madame Blueberry Mr. Nezzer Laura Carrot The French Peas various other side characters, mostly other peas External Links Veggie Tales Goals of the Big Idea Foundation.
Knowing Me, Knowing You - BBC television in 1994 with a series of six episodes, and a Christmas special (Knowing Me, Knowing Yule). The show was a parody of a chat show, and both the radio and television versions were so embarrassingly accurate that listeners and viewers often thought they were the real thing. Steve Coogan played the incompetent, annoying and presumably deeply disturbed Norwich-based host, Alan Partridge. Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show On The Hour (later made for TV as The Day Today). Knowing Me, Knowing You was written by Coogan, Armando Iannucci (who produced the radio version) and Patrick Marber (who also starred), with contributions from the regular supporting cast of Doon Machikan, Rebecca Front and David Schneider, who made up Alan's weekly onslaught of annoying and inane guests..
Krusty the Klown - and Lisa's favourite TV show. The TV show is a combination of kiddie variety-television hijinks with a sidekick, and cartoons including the Tom and Jerry parody Itchy and Scratchy. His original sidekick, Sideshow Bob has now been replaced by Sideshow Mel. In 1996, Krusty faked his death and lived briefly as sailor Rory B. Bellows. The episode Like Father like Clown, based on the film The Jazz Singer and first released on October 24, 1991, expanded on his origin. According to it , he was born Herschel Schmoeckel Krustofski and is of Jewish heritage. Krusty is a third generation immigrant. In 1902, Zed Krustofski who would become his grandfather reportedly left Imperial Russia for the United States and gained entry through Ellis Island. His son Hyman Krustofski became a rabbi and.
Krewe - The word is thought to have been coined in the early 19th century by an organization calling themselves Ye Mystick Krewe of Comus, as an imitation or parody of olde English; with time it became the most common term for a New Orleans Carnival organization. Krewe members are assessed fees in order to pay for the parade and/or ball. Fees can range from thousands of dollars a year per person for the most elaborate parades to as little as $20 a year for smaller marching clubs. Criteria for Krewe membership varies similarly, ranging from exclusive organizations largely limited to relatives of previous members to other organizations open to anyone able to pay the membership fee. Lower priced krewes may also require members to work to help build and decorate the parade.
Jasper Fforde - number of literary allusions, wordplay and the tightly scripted plot, and also the impossibility of deciding which genre they fit into. The simple answer is that they don't, although they have elements of science fiction, literary fiction, parody, and fantasy. Mr Fforde should also be noted for his use of the internet to add a different level to the books at http://www.thursdaynext.com/index2.html and talks directly to his fans through comments on the Fforum, which has attracted a small community producing parodies and nonsense roughly connected to the 'Nextian Universe'. Another way to engage readers has been through the insertion of rogue postcards into copies of the books which now sell for not inconsiderable sums, as well as guerilla signings of his books - which often confuse purchasers..
James Henry Leigh Hunt - Quarterly. The essays afterwards published under the title of the Round Table (2 vols., 1816-1817), conjointly with William Hazlitt, appeared in the Examiner. In 1816 he made a permanent mark in English literature by the publication of his Story of Rimini. Few poems have been more influential. Hunt's refined critical perception had detected the superiority of Geoffrey Chaucer's versification, as adapted to the present state of the language by John Dryden, over the sententious epigrammatic couplet of Alexander Pope which had superseded it. By a simple return to the traditional, he effected for English poetry in the comparatively restricted domain of metrical art what William Wordsworth had already effected in the domain of nature; his is an achievement of the same class, though not of the same calibre. His poem is.
Jacob Clemens non Papa - in 's Hertogenbosch. His nickname non Papa was jokingly added to distinguish him from the contemporaneous Pope Clement VII. Clemens was one of the chief forerunners of Palestrina and Orlandus Lassus. He was a prolific composer, writing: 15 parody masses (published 1555-80 by Petrus Phalesius in Leuven) c. 233 motets 80 chansons 159 Souter Liedekens (published 1556-7 by Tylman Susato in Antwerp), i.e. Dutch settings of the psalms, using popular song melodies as cantus firmus..
Jaka's Story - not before Rick is told that his wife had an illegal abortion when she was carrying his son. A furious Rick vows never to see Jaka again. Jaka returns to Palnu, her home city. Cerebus himself spends much of the book lying in Jaka's spare bed mooning after her. In the third act he only appears in one double-page spread. In addition to the main storyline, there are a number of text pages interspersed throughout Jaka's Story, written in an accurate parody of Wilde's flowery style. (Sim's fascination with Wilde would carry over into a subsequent graphic novel, Melmoth.) They tell the story of Jaka's childhood, somewhat inaccurately, as it later transpires. The comic-style pages of the book are extremely cinematic, with many long wordless passages and 'pans' imitating the movement.
Jet Li - The movie, known in the US as either High risk or Meltdown, portrays Jet Li as a cop who has had his son murdered by crimelords and was thus bent on revenge. Along the way, he pairs up with wacky sell-out actor Frankie (played by Jacky Cheung), and proceeds to engage in massively violent battles in a high-rise building. Note the fact that such a "no-talent" kung-fu actor was played by a man whose name rings close to that of Jackie Chan's was entirely intentional. While the movie was a stunning action comedic success, Jackie Chan remains angered to this day about what he considers to be a "parody" of his talents. See also: Cinema of China.
JeffK - web site founder Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka, Jeff K.(often written JEFFK!!!!1 or similar) is a parody of teenage internet users, particularly script kiddies and online gamers. Claiming to be a "l33t hax0r" (translation: an elite hacker), JEFFK is known for his horrible spelling, joining words to create insults such as "clownboat" and "asshat," and bad web design skills. He has coined several phrases that have entered more widespread usage in other internet communities, most notably the phrase "teh sukc" (as in, "encyclopedias are teh sukc", used to express a dislike for encyclopedias). "Asshat" has also begun appearing in some other online forums as pejorative slang. Other sites sometimes join in on the joke, and pretend to be hacked by Jeff. The features on Jeff's site are a mixture of game and film.
Johnny Cash - became a born-again Christian. Soon, Johnny Cash released his most successful album ever titled "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison." The following year, he released another prison album titled, "Johnny Cash at San Quentin" that included Shel Silverstein's "A Boy Named Sue." Released as a single, "A Boy Named Sue" went to number one on the country charts and to number three on the US Top Ten pop charts. Immensely popular, and an imposing tall figure, he began performing dressed all in black, wearing a long black knee-length coat. Dubbed "The Man in Black." This stemmed from the fact that most of the major acts in his day wore rhinestones and cowboy boots, and he wanted to do express something different. In 1971, Johnny wrote the song "Man in Black" to help.
Job, A Comedy of Justice - Justice Job: A Comedy of Justice (also titled Job: a Parody of Justice) is a novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1984. It examines religion through the eyes of a Christian reformer who is corrupted by a Swedish cruise ship hostess (and loves every minute of it). Enduring a series of world-changes brought about by a petulant god Jehovah, the reformer and his mistress work their way from Mexico to Kansas as dishwasher and waitress. They enjoy the Texas hospitality of Satan himself, but are separated by the Rapture (pagans don't go to heaven). Heinlein's vivid depiction of a Heaven ruled by snotty angels and a Hell where everyone has a wonderful time--with Mary Magdalene shuttling breezily between both places--is a brilliant, biting satire on American evangelical Christianity. See also:.
John Bale - preached at Doncaster, and afterwards before Stokesley, Bishop of London, but he escaped through the powerful protection of Thomas Cromwell, whose notice he is said to have attracted by his miracle plays. In these plays, Bale allows no considerations of decency to stand in the way of his denunciations of the monastic system and its supporters. The prayer of Infidelitas which opens the second act of his Three Laws is an example of the lengths to which he went in profane parody. These coarse and violent productions were calculated to impress popular feeling, and Cromwell found in him an invaluable instrument. When Cromwell fell from favour in 1540, Bale fled with his wife and children to Germany. He returned on the accession of King Edward VI, and received the living of.
John Wilson - made a working man of letters of Wilson, and without which he would probably have produced a few volumes of verse and nothing more. Most of his fortune was lost by the dishonest speculation of an uncle, in whose hands Wilson had carelessly left it. His mother had a house in Edinburgh, in which she was able and willing to receive her son and his family; he was not forced to give up Elleray, though he was no longer able to live there. He read law and was called to the Scottish bar, in 1815, still with many outside interests, and in 1816 produced a second volume of poems, The City of the Plague. In 1817, soon after the founding of Blackwood's Magazine, Wilson began his connection with the Tory monthly.
Joe Hill - when the earthquake struck it in 1906. Hill joined the Wobblies around 1910, when he was working on the docks in San Pedro, California. Hill rose in the I.W.W. organization and travelled widely organizing workers under the I.W.W. banner, writing political songs and satirical poems, and making speeches. He coined the phrase "pie in the sky" which appeared in his song "The Preacher and the Slave" (a parody of the then well known hymn "In the Sweet Bye and Bye"): You will eat, bye and bye In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, Live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. On January 10, 1914, John G. Morrison, a grocer, and his son Arling were murdered in Salt Lake City, Utah by two armed.
Joseph Andrews - published two years earlier under a pseudonym which led some to believe it was the work of Colley Cibber. (This explains the references to Cibber in the text.) Warning: wikipedia contains spoilers Fielding set out to parody Pamela, and his central character, Joseph Andrews, is supposedly Pamela's brother. The story is comic and ribald, beginning with the virtuous young Joseph being thrown out of his employment because of his refusal to be seduced by the lady of the house. A string of adventures follows, in the course of which Joseph is befriended by Parson Abraham Adams and finally discovers true love..
John Leech - for the accuracy and beauty of his anatomical drawings. He was then placed under a Mr Whittle, an eccentric practitioner, the original of "Rawkins" in Albert Smith's Adventures of Mr Ledbury, and afterwards under Dr John Cockle; but gradually the true bent of the youth's mind asserted itself, and he drifted into the artistic profession. He was eighteen when his first designs were published, a quarto of four pages, entitled Etchings and Sketchings by A. Pen, Esq., comic character studies from the London streets. Then he drew some political lithographs, did rough sketches for Bell's Life, produced an exceedingly popular parody on Mulready's postal envelope, and, on the death of Seymour, applied unsuccessfully to illustrate the Pickwick Papers. In 1840 Leech began his contributions to the magazines with a series of.
Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi - the earliest examples of developing the story around Yagyu Jubei was from Japanese author Fuutarou Yamada's 1967 book, Makai Tenshou (Resurrection from Hell), which featured Yagyu Jubei involved in the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637 and 1638. This story was eventually adapted into a live-action picture in 1981, directed by Kinji Fukasaku, who later went on to direct the cult hit, Battle Royale. The story of Makai Tenshou was also turned into a manga by manga-ka Shouko Toba as Makai Tenshou: Yume no Ato (Resurrection from Hell: Sign of Dreams). This was then adapted into two anime OVAs (although originally planned for four) as Makai Tenshou Jigokuhen, later released in the U.S under the name Ninja Resurrection. Yagyu Jubei is also featured in other manga and anime, ranging from the epic work,.
