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Much to my surprise, there is not a world record for mocking listed at Guinness World Record's website.   I think that the following posting from  Represenative Pete Hoekstra, might warrant being the entry point for the 1st mocking world record.

http://twitter.com/petehoekstra
"Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House."
8:56 AM Jun 17th from TwitterBerry

The part I find particularly funny is he made this posting from his Blackberry (TwitterBerry is a Blackberry application).  Just imagine, you are sitting in some meeting room, either waiting for a meeting to start or bored in a meeting that ran a bit too long and you have a thought that you wanted share.   The problems are

1. you also have been living in a bubble that is Washington DC
2. the GOP has become so practiced at taking umbrage at basically anything and
3. the GOP’s ability to generate fauxrage so pronounced that your ability to accurately compare events has long since slipped your grasp.
   

Along comes the building revolution in Iran, combined with a very emotionally drawn-in community encompassing much of the twitter user base and one stray twitter post from a previously unknown represenative....  The post that launched a thousand mocks within hours now sports a website (http://hoekstraisameme.com) devoted to the best mocking replies to the honorable representative from Michigan.

If you’re curious, here is the search page to see anyone replying to @petehoekstra - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=petehoekstra  

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html

Mr. Orlov is the author of the book "Reinventing Collapse: Soviet Example and American Prospects"

Here are a couple of great one (or three) liners from the following article.

This was my reply to a general question about backyard bird habitat and this was my reply.

Here are the elements I've added to my backyard and at least this winter I've had a lot of birds hanging out in the back yard.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26665

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been working for over five years to force a National Animal Identification System (NAIS) onto American animal owners.  NAIS is designed to identify and track each and every individual livestock and poultry animal owned by family farmers, hobby farmers, homesteaders, and pet owners across the country.

USDA claims that NAIS is a disease tracking program, but has refused to provide any support for its claims.

In reality, NAIS will: