I meant to have "self parody" at the end of the first post, enclosed in brackets, with a slash after the first bracket, as a psuedo-HTML code. Unfortunately, everything between brackets is not shown, ruining my fun. I've seen people in forums on other sites do things like (/rant) or (/sarcasm) and thought it was mildly clever. (I'm using parentheses instead of angle brackets so that my examples will show up this time.)
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"Laughter is the language of the soul." - Pablo Neruda, as quoted by Lisa Simpson