On December 19th 2005 the Wiki compendium of things literary, Prolixipaedia, published a list of techniques useful for writing satirical and comedic prose. The original author of this text, Gottfried Leibniz, had just a tad too many other projects, such as writing philosophical texts, discovering calculus and arguing with Newton about it, formulating the binary system, reforming the Christian Church across Europe, being a diplomat for his homeland, writing countless letters to intellectuals and countesses, and studying for all those night courses he had.