| An open letter to the Islamic Republic of Iran Dear Iranian Mullahs! While our satirical website and your Propaganda Directorate deal in the same trade of making up facts and exaggerating reality, we are different in that we can recognize a spoof - but you apparently can't. On Dec. 27, 2007 you used our spoof image on your propaganda website to illustrate a "true" statement that Jews are welcome in Iran and that Western reports about mass emigration of Iranian Jews are "lies spread by the Zionist hegemony." |
UPDATE: (Dec.29) PressTV realized they were being pwned and replaced the image in the morning of Dec. 29, 2007, ending more than two full days of pwnage. We expected it to happen, that was why we made the following screen capture for historical purposes. Other sites that reported it made their own screen captures.
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It gets better. Our Iranian friends tell us that the original Farsi-language placard says "Nuclear power is our absolute right," which means that you, dear Mullahs, used that image as a propaganda tool to advance your nuclear program - so you could threaten and maybe even annihilate the Jews in Israel. In our spoof, we changed the message of the placard to the complete opposite, making it appear improbable. To be fair, your story about Iran's love for the Jews was just as improbable, so it would seem only logical to put them together. It would, we repeat - if your goal were to publish a self-parody. That wasn't your intention, however. You only did it because you didn't know better.
Let's call it self-inflicted poetic justice.
The original propaganda image used to advance the Iranian government's grotesque spin.![]() | The People's Cube photoshopped image used to ridicule the Iranian government's grotesque spin.![]() |
Lesson: if you like to cheat, make sure you steal your answers from the correct cheat sheet.
When you try to back a stupid lie by using a spoof that ridicules your stupid lies, you thereby prove the spoofer's original point that (a) you are stupid and (b) you lie.
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The same day you posted our image, a beginning video blogger from Israel went to your website and sensed a send-up. He quickly found the original picture in Google images and sent an inquiry to the People's Cube. After we confirmed that it was a spoof, he released a short video on YouTube detailing the fraud. On the following day the story was reported by Gateway Pundit and other blogs.
So let me ask you, dear Iranian Mullahs: how come they got the joke and you didn't? You must help us here because we're lost in various possibilities.
You didn't get the joke because...
Granted, it may defeat the very purpose of your existence. But hey, we all have to sacrifice something now and then! Besides, your existence in itself is a major embarrassment. Trust us: something's got to give.
We suggest you start by familiarizing yourself with knock-knock jokes. Then you can gradually switch to light bulb jokes, advancing to more complex blonde jokes, and eventually to puns - as in "Iran a bogus story and all I got was this lousy photoshopped image."
With any luck you will soon begin to understand even the MasterCard "priceless" jokes, such as this one:

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We suggest you start by familiarizing yourself with knock-knock jokesQuote:
Then you can gradually switch to light bulb jokesCommissar Pupovich
They really did that Comrade Red Square? They have another photo there now.

Red Square
(When will they learn that it's only the Party that can tell us whether we are allowed to "feel free" or not.)Comrad Bubalasky
IRANIANS HAVE HUMOR, CHECK OUT THEIR NUMBER ONE TV SHOW "AHAB"!Quote:
Your mud puddle access will be cut back to one hour tomorrow.Comrad Bubalasky
Commissar Pupovich wroteQuote:
Your mud puddle access will be cut back to one hour tomorrow.Commissar Pupovich
...the fact they may both harbor illusions of past glory and long for the death of the west...
Great Stalin's Ghost
I understand my dogs would be safe from violation because dogs are haram, right?Commissar Pupovich
Welcome to the People's Cube Comrade Smooth Stone. Here is your shovel so you may begin digging for progress! The Party will issue you your opinions as needed.
Thank you Commissar. Shoveling snow is a fact of life in colder parts of the world as my imprisoned comrades have told me. I, however, will use it to shovel the bullshit thrown at us by arabists and left wing nutcases. Besides, the shovel is what the revolution will be fought with after the libtards take away our guns, so, I really am very grateful.Smooth Stone
Thank you Commissar. Shoveling snow is a fact of life in colder parts of the world as my imprisoned comrades have told me. I, however, will use it to shovel the bullshit thrown at us by Arabists. Besides, the shovel is what the revolution will be fought with after the libtards take away our guns, so, I really am very grateful.RedtheProgressiveFox
Great Stalin's Ghost
I understand my dogs would be safe from violation because dogs are haram, right?Commissar Pupovich
Smooth Stone
Thank you Commissar. Shoveling snow is a fact of life in colder parts of the world as my imprisoned comrades have told me. I, however, will use it to shovel the bullshit thrown at us by Arabists. Besides, the shovel is what the revolution will be fought with after the libtards take away our guns, so, I really am very grateful.
Commissar Pupovich
Comrades, I am proud to present one of our useful idiots for your diversity training.Comrad Bubalasky

Commissar Pupovich
Smooth Stone
Thank you Commissar. Shoveling snow is a fact of life in colder parts of the world as my imprisoned comrades have told me. I, however, will use it to shovel the bullshit thrown at us by Arabists. Besides, the shovel is what the revolution will be fought with after the libtards take away our guns, so, I really am very grateful.Commissarka Pinkie
Comrad Bubalasky
Smooth Stone
May I kindly add that the shovel is also famous for its acting, even though some critics have accused it of somtimes being too stiff. Did you know that this same shovel was hired to appear in The Sopranos and Blood Simple, with a breakthrough Oscar winning performance in Rear Window. The shovel protested and refused to leave its home in a fit of jealousy when a more harrowing murder weapon was chosen to appear in No Country For Old Men. Jealousy is a frequent side effect of competition, but a competitive spirit is exactly what is wrong with capitalism, am I not right?Quote:
"Commissarka Pinkie
Active Measures Bureau
The People's is not the only cube. And novel way to deal with it.AbecedariusRex
Comrades, here is another instructional video for our middle eastern comrades. This one shows the inherent wisdom of the dar al-Islam and the self-destroying greed of the capitalistic dar al-Harb.Commissar Pupovich
AbecedariusRex
Comrades, here is another instructional video for our middle eastern comrades. This one shows the inherent wisdom of the dar al-Islam and the self-destroying greed of the capitalistic dar al-Harb.Comrad Bubalasky
Nice sword Hasan is wielding!Commissarka Pinkie
AbecedariusRex
Note the disdain for worldly goods, the svelt figure, the ability to transform the earth rapidly... that is the Chairman, comrade.AbecedariusRex
On a scale of 0-10, 0 being a bad death and 10 being hte best, starving to death is an 8.Comrad Bubalasky
Red Square
With any luck you will soon begin to understand even the MasterCard "priceless" jokes, such as this one:
Commissar Pupovich
Active Measures Bureau
The People's is not the only cube. And novel way to deal with it.Active Measures Bureau
Commissar Pupovich
Active Measures Bureau
The People's is not the only cube. And novel way to deal with it.RedtheProgressiveFox
What??? Destroy the cube at Mecca?! That is both racially insensitive and non-tolerant of religious beliefs. What kind of Bureaucrat are you? Let’s see some ID? Ummmm? Come on, hand it over? I am waiting.Commissar Pupovich
Here I thought they had all the cloned sheep a country would need..... Often with bombs attached to them.Zampolit Blokhayev
[Personal attack deleted]Commissar Pupovich
RedtheProgressiveFox
What??? Destroy the cube at Mecca?! That is both racially insensitive and non-tolerant of religious beliefs. What kind of Bureaucrat are you? Let’s see some ID? Ummmm? Come on, hand it over? I am waiting.Zampolit Blokhayev
Commissar Pupovich
Here I thought they had all the cloned sheep a country would need..... Often with bombs attached to them.Tim Gleason
One of the problems that countries without a free press run into is that they don't recognize parody and satire. This isn't the first time something like this has happened. For example, in one famous incident Beijing China's largest newspaper, the Beijing Evening News, fell victim to a similar mistake. It copied an article from The Onionwhich stated that the U.S. Congress was threatening to leave Washington D.C. for Memphis or Charlotte unless Washington built them a new Capitol with a retractable dome. You can check out a report of this incident here.
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