Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Easy As Pie Graph

"Accurate Pie Graph" by Laszlo Thoth on Live Journal (January, 2007), Via GraphJam, September, 2008.

The creator's alias is similar to "Lazlo Toth," the pen name under which SNL's Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci) wrote letters to famous figures (taken from that of Laszlo Toth, a deranged man who vandalized Michelangelo's Pietà in Rome). The letters, designed to tweak the noses of politicians and corporations, were full of deliberate misstatements of fact and inside jokes. Many of these letters received serious responses; Novello sometimes continued the charade correspondence at length, with humorous results. The letters and responses were published in three books: The Lazlo Letters , Citizen Lazlo! and From Bush to Bush: The Lazlo Toth Letters.

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