Meta-Scam Artistry

Meta level 0: The Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch.

Meta level 1: West African Scam Artists Filiming the Dead Parrot Sketch to Fraud Email Respondents.

Meta level 2: Those scam artists being scammed by "scambaiters," who pull pranks on West African scam artists:



Meta Scholium: Those West African Scammers engage in a practice known as "spam" which is a term coming from the originators of Meta level 0.

Only 2 levels of meta and a scholium? Pfff, I've had worse.

Annals of meta-humor

Self-referential humor writing, making fun of McSweeney's and the plights of freelancing, and somehow working in a Yankees angle? It's like someone at The Onion has a John Malkovitch-style portal to my brain.