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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

The Wizard of Oil

I have tried to stay away from pure anti Bush lefty political postings that do not have something to do with food and farming but I could not resist writing about the site The Wizard of Oil. This is one of the best things I have ever seen on the web as far as political parodies are concerned.

Okay a bit of background on me-I have read the complete Oz series, at least I think I have I have read over 55 Oz books in my life, most being 1st editions that my grandmother had lying around her house for us kids to read when I was young. I have probably seen the movie, The Wizard of Oz 50 times (and this does not count watching it via tape or DVD). I am a cerified Oz Nut, mavin, fanatic, etc..

I have studied this stuff and this parody lives up to the legend of Oz beautifully

4 comments:

feedscott said...: I won't fall in line with bush bashing. But, The wizard of oil has some great photo shop pictures :)

Are you a vurf?

pvtbfs; 12:20 PM
Gina said...: This is hilarious! Thanks for the link, Lucy.; 3:55 PM
Genuine Lustre said...: I'm a republican and even I am laughing. : ); 5:12 PM
Laurie said...: This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen on the web. I just linked to it on my blog. Thanks for the good belly-laugh!

I look forward to looking through your blog. It looks like we have many similar interests!; 7:02 PM

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