SS - one has to be careful when using satire! There appear to be those frequenting this thread who have difficulty in establishing the difference between talk and banter.... They're the ones eating dung over there in the corner. With brown sauce.
Satire can he hazardous to health, as one of the greatest practical jokers of the last century found out. De vere Cole, the chap who managed to review the Royal Navy by pretending to be a visiting Middle East Big Cheese and who also had a VIP visit arranged for him and his chums as the 'Sultan of Zanzibar', once tried his wit on an uneducated Corsican fisherman. Who shot him in the foot.