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Rube (n., ROOB)
An uneducated country bumpkin, or someone who others describe like one. There's also a Mr. Goldberg, but he doesn't apply here, in case you didn't know.
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Dystopian Young Adult Novel Twitter account
At the office yesterday, we briefly mentioned this interesting textual analysis of recent popular teen/young adult novels. That led into one of the greatest parody Twitter accounts of all time, the Dystopian YA Novel. Read these and ask yourself if they are all that farfetched or if they're hilarious satire:
The Categories are final and absolute. Ermias is an INTJ, and I'm an ISTP. We might never see each other again.
— Dystopian YA Novel (@DystopianYA) February 22, 2015
My little brother, Kai, has been sick with the Sickness for his entire life.
— Dystopian YA Novel (@DystopianYA) October 31, 2015
I definitely have a personality, because everyone around me keeps telling me things about my personality.
— Dystopian YA Novel (@DystopianYA) May 25, 2016
Ermias has been my best friend since Childhood. He's handsome but in an obvious way, with brown floppy hair and blue eyes. He might love me.
— Dystopian YA Novel (@DystopianYA) January 30, 2016
So many choices I need to make: wisdom vs. innocence, freedom vs. fascism, this handsome boy vs. this other handsome boy
— Dystopian YA Novel (@DystopianYA) November 5, 2015
If you are not snort-laughing after reading this account, you, dear reader, are sick with the Sickness. There is no hope for us. The regime does not allow it. This is what they want. This is what they want to make us.
ParodiesYoung Adult literatureFictionEven stranger fictionPointed satire
But in an obvious way