An anonymous duo has started a humorous website called Mountaineer Irony, Morgantown's "Satirical Holler."
The site, Mountaineer Irony, which released one of two updates on Monday, provides a satirical twist on West Virginia University students, athletics and academics.
The goal of the site is "to offend people who offend me," said "Quill", author and co-creator of Mountaineer Irony.
Quill wishes to remain anonymous because he is active on campus, he said. Due to legal reasons, Mountaineer Irony has no affiliation with WVU, he added.
"If I can make a state college female think twice before donning a pair of Uggs, then I have saved high fashion. If I can make said female not go to ‘Sex and the City 2,' I have saved culture," Quill said.
"Really, I just want state college females to reconsider the cultural morass they've dug themselves into."
Quill said the site follows a format similar to other college humor websites such as the Phroth at Pennsylvania State University and the Georgetown Heckler at Georgetown University.
Headlines and short stories are updated to the site every Monday, he said.
"Nation's State Colleges Defenseless against New Jersey, FBI Warns," reads one of the site's top headlines.
In the story, Quill writes phrases like, "NJ's (New Jerseyians) dispatch their lesser sons and daughters to Northeastern state universities as a proactive strategy to crush academic standards and integrity at outside schools".
The story goes on to say that "Female NJ's can easily be spotted by the OBX sticker they bought when they visited North Carolina once last spring."
After reading the article, Christy Pape, a sophomore general studies major, said she found the story hilarious and definitely plans to read more from the site.
Freshman general studies major, Erika Orlikoff, said she would prefer to read about something else.
"I think it's kind of pretentious," she said. "Without people from New Jersey, WVU wouldn't be WVU."
Mountaineer Irony is a two-man project, Quill said. Quill does the writing and his partner performs the site's management and Photoshop, he said.
Generally, the site has received positive feedback for its stories.
"I received loads of hate mail for the College Republicans article, presumably from people who would blow up my website if it were an abortion clinic," Quill said.
"Oddly enough, they weren't offended by the story's idea of Republicans starting a racially exclusionist club, but at the fact I was insinuating that they owned yachts."
Morgantown in itself is a story, he said, and that is where he finds his inspiration.
"‘Did that man in the camouflage K-5 blazer really just shout both a racial and homophobic epithet at me?'" Quill said.
"Yes he did. Inspiration. If that doesn't work, I just go to Black Bear (Burritos) and mock the hipsters."
George Turner, senior religious studies major, said the stories didn't make him laugh out loud, but they were still OK.
"Basically, it's taking something joked about on campus and mocking it a bit," he said.
Quill said his humor isn't for everyone.
"There are two types of people in this town. Those who revel in its absurdity, and those who are aware of it," Quill said.
"My stories are designed for the latter. The former can visit collegehumor.com and enjoy its pastiche of breast and fart jokes."
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You really are a moron. I'm sure that your talking points from Sean Hannity told you that was what you were supposed to say, but half of the stuff you mention has nothing to do with the website. And if this is the first generation that you've heard make fun of Republicans then you have only been alive for what? Five minutes? Your comment about free speech going too far is so hypocritical. You can't pick and choose what freedom of speech applies to. By the way, The Onion has been doing the same thing for about 20 years so this isn't a new phenomenon. Maybe if you walk out of your trailer for more than a minute you'd learn a thing or two.