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Dan Geddes is the author of The Satirist: America's Most Critical Book (Vol. 1) and the founding editor of the online journal The Satirist: America's Most Critical Journal, an astonishing collection of satires, reviews, reviews of imaginary works, fiction, essays, poems, and satirical news.

Geddes' satires and critical essays in The Satirist have been widely cited in books and academic journals and assigned in Literature courses in the US and countries abroad. He lives in Amsterdam.

Dutch Propose Dutch as Official EU Language after Brexit

By Dan Geddes

AMSTERDAM – Jan Smit, 44, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), proposed yesterday that Dutch should become the new official language of the EU after Brexit finally takes place next year.

“It can’t be German,” said Smit, “for semi-obvious historical reasons. The French can pretend that others are willing to learn French, but most people are not. The French are just too annoying when they correct you, even when they do it in English. And everybody hates the French. You know it; I know it.”

U.S. Declares Plastic a Major Food Group, Part of a Balanced Diet

By Dan Geddes

WASHINGTON – In a move described as “accepting reality” the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared plastic to be “a major food group.”

US FDA spokesperson Carl Manson stated: “We admit that trace amounts of plastic leak into many food products. Significant amounts of plastic appear in other food products, such as fish. However, top scientists all agree that there is nothing wrong with ingesting plastics, as has been proven by generations of long-term studies on the population since the 1960s.”

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