Loving Money To Much

There was a man who liked money very much. He worked all of his life and wanted to
save all of his money for his own future. He was a real miser when it came to his
money. He loved money more than just about anything.
Even, just before he died, he said to his wife; "Now listen, when I die, I want you to
take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to the
afterlife." So he asked his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died,
she would put all the money in the casket with him.
Well, one day, he really died. Then he was stretched out in the casket. The wife was
sitting there in black clothes next to her closest friend. When they finished the
ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said
"Wait just a minute!"
She had a box in her hands. She came over with the box and placed it in the casket.
After that the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away. Not long after
that, her friend said, "I hope you were not crazy enough to put all that money in the
casket."
The wife turned to her friend and replied; "Yes, because I have promised." Then she
continued; "I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that
casket with him." Feeling shocked, her friend said; "You mean that you have put
every cent of his money in the casket with him?" Then the wife answered; "Surely I
did. I got it all together, put all the money into my account and I just wrote him a
check."
Notice on Generic structure of spoof sample
Spoof text is very similar to recount text. Both spoof and recount tell about the past
event with chronological order. Its purpose is to amuse reader with funny story. The
story mostly is ended with an unpredictable event.
The above spoof sample has generic structure as follow:
Orientation: It is the introduction of the story. By giving the orientation, reader will
recognize, for the first time, who involves in the story.The above story talks about a
wife and his husband who loves money too much even up to his death.
Events: Several events are explored in chronological way which able to arrange the
story read nicely.Promising with her money miser husband, Putting the box inside
casket, locking and rolling the casket are the events which build the complete story.
Twist: This is the unpredictable event/thing/way which amuse the reader. Readers
even did not predict before that it would be. When reading the above story, for the
first, readers likely think that the wife would put all the money instead of just a check
The Zoo Job Story
One day a clown was visiting the zoo and attempted to earn some money by making a
street performance. He acted and mimed perfectly some animal acts. As soon as he
started to drive a crowd, a zoo keeper grabbed him and dragged him into his office.
The zoo keeper explained to the clown that the zoo's most popular gorilla had died
suddenly and the keeper was fear that attendance at the zoo would fall off. So he
offered the clown a job to dress up as the gorilla until the zoo could get another one.
The clown accepted this great opportunity.
So the next morning the clown put on the gorilla suit and entered the cage before the
crowd came. He felt that it was a great job. He could sleep all he wanted, played and

made fun of people and he drove bigger crowds than he ever did as a clown. He
pretended the gorilla successfully.
However, eventually the crowds were tired of him for just swinging on tires. He
began to notice that the people were paying more attention to the lion in the next cage.
Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he decided to make a spectacular
performance. He climbed to the top of his cage, crawled across a partition, and
dangled from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this made the lion furious, but the
crowd people loved it.
At the end of the day the zoo keeper came and gave him a raise for being such a good
attraction. Well, this went on for some time, he kept taunting the lion, the audience
crowd grew a larger, and his salary kept going up. Then one terrible day happened.
When he was dangling over the furious lion, he slipped and fell into the lion cage. The
clown was really in big terrible situation. He was terrified.
Sooner the lion gathered itself and prepared to pounce. The clown was so scared. He
could do nothing and he began to run round and round the cage with the lion close
and closer behind. Finally, the lion could catch him. The clown started screaming and
yelling, "Help me, help me!", but the lion was quick and pounces. The clown soon
found himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and suddenly he heard a
voice from the lions mouth;"Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?".
That Phone is OFF
Soon after he left college, Dave found one of his uncles who was very rich and had no
children of his own died and left him a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own
real estate agency.
Dave found a nice office. He bought some new furniture and moved in. he had only
been there for e few hours when he heard someone coming toward the door of his
office.
It must be my first customer Dave thought. He quickly picked up the telephone and
pretended to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New York
who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.
The man knocked at the door while this was going on. He came in and waited politely
for Dave to finish his conversation on the phone. Then the man said to Dave; I am
from the telephone company and I was sent here to connect your telephone
Notes on the Spoofs Generic Structure
Orientation: Dave was a lucky man. He suddenly became a very rich man because of
the death of his rich uncle who had no children. He inherited his uncles money.
Event 1: Being rich, he wanted to set up his estate company
Event 2: He had his new office. In his office, he pretended to be a very successful
businessman. He acted as had an important client. He showed by making conversation
on the phone.
Twist: The man whom he showed is a telephone technician. He came to Daves office
to connect that phone.
Private Conversation
Last week I went to the theatre. I had a very good seat. The play was very interesting.I
did not enjoy it. A young man and a young woman were sitting behind me. They were
talking very loudly.I got very angry. I could not hear the actors. I turned around. I
looked at the man and the young woman angrily. They did not pay any attention.In the
end, I could not bear it. I turned around again. I could not hear a word I said

angrily.Its none of your business the young man said rudely. This is a private
conversation
Generic
Structure
Analysis
Orientation: introducing a writes as point of view I which is in a theatre last week
Event 1: the other theatregoers, young man and young woman, were talking noisily.
Event 2: the writer used physical language by turning around to the young man and
young
woman
talk
to
not
to
make
noisy.
Event 3: the write used verbal language by saying I could not hear a word.
Penguin in the park
Once a man was walking in a park when he across a penguin. He took it to a
policeman and said; "What should I do?" The policeman replied; "Take it to the zoo!".
The next day, the policeman saw the man in the same park. The man was still carrying
the penguin. The policeman was rather surprised and walked up to the man and asked;
"Why are you still carrying the penguin? Didn't you take it to the zoo?" The man
replied; "I certainly did. And it was a great idea because the penguin really enjoyed it.
So, today I am taking it to the movie".
Analyzing
the
Text
Generic
Structure
Analysis
Orientation;introducing participants: "He" and Penguin. They were in the park
Event1; The man tended to take the penguin to the park
Event; The following day, the man were still carrying the penguin
Twist; Even, finally the man would take the penguin to the movies
Language
Feature
Analysis
Focusing on certain
certain
participants;
He, penguin,
policeman
Using
action
verb;
carry,
walk
up
Using
adverb
of
time
and
place;
once,
in
the
park
Told in chronological order; chronological order by days, the next day
Horsman In The Sky
Carter Druse was born in Virginia. He was a southerner. When the United States was
divided by a terrible civil war, Carter decided to join the Union Army of the north.
He told his father about his decision to join the north army. His father looked deep
into his son's eyes. "Carter, No matter what happens, be sure you always do what you
think is your duty."
One sunny afternoon, Carter was sent to guard. It was his duty to be sure that no
enemy soldier spied on. Suddenly, he saw a man on horseback standing on the huge
rocky cliff. He held a gun in his right hand, and the horse's reins in the other.
Unavoidably, Carter pointed his gun. Carter was calm as he pulled the trigger.
Soon after firing his gun, Carter was joined by a Union sergeant.
"Did you fire?" The sergeant whispered.
"Yes."
"At what?" The sergeant continued.
"A horse"
"Was there anyone on the horse?" The sergeant asked again.
"Yes."

"Who? " The sergeant kept asking.

"My father."
This is a story
there was a young man named amso, people do not want to join with other people.
when his friends ask him he refused.
one day he asked his friend to the toilet, but because it is before he turned it
down even though her stomach was sore, but he let his friend go. because she could
not take it anymore he had to the toilet. Then his friend saw him and his
friends to come to mind ignorant friends with pants hangingon a flagpole.
Note: This example of ironic spoof text is summarized from Ambrose Bierce's A
Horseman in the Sky
Professor Carter visited Mr. and Mrs. Crockett on the other side
of town. After a good dinner and a game of the cards, he said, Im going
to walk home now. But Mrs. Crockett looked out of the window and said,
Its raining outside. Please stay here tonight. She went and prepared
the guest room for him. After a few minutes, she came back to the livingroom, but the professor was not there.
Mr. and Mrs. Crockett waited for more than 30 minutes, and then
they started to go bed. But then somebody knocked at the back of the
house. It was the professor. He was very wet. Mr. Crockett and his wife
were very happy to see him. They said you are here!
Yes, the professor answered. He smiled and added, I went home
and got my Pyjamas.

1. Jack and the professor

Jack was a university student. He studied history. At the end of the year, his
history professor failed him in his examinations and he was told to leave the
university.
The next day, Jacks father went to see the professor He urged the professor to
let Jack continue his studies the following year. He is a good boy, said Jacks
father,and if you give him chance this time, Im sure he will improve a lot next
year.
No, no! Thats quite impossible, replied the professor, Do you know, last
month I asked him when Napoleon died, and he could not answer it.
Please, sir, give him another chance, said Jacks father, You see, we dont
subscribe to any newspapers in our house, so none of us even know that Napoleon
was ill,

2. Poor Parrot
Jack was a young sailor. He lived in England, but he was often away with his
ship.

One summer he came back from a long voyage and found new neighbour near
his mothers house. They had a pretty daughter, and Jack soon loved her very much..
He said to her, My next voyage will begin in a few days time, Gloria. I love
you, and Ill marry you when I come back. Ill think about you all the time, Ill write
to you and send you a present from every port.
Jacks first port was Freetown in Africa, and he sent Gloria a parrot from there.
It spoke five languages.
When Jacks ship reached Australia, there was a letter from Gloria. It said, Thank
you for the parrot, Jack. It tasted much better than a chicken.

3. Doing homework
Teddy. was ten years old. He was not a very good student because he didnt
like doing his homework. He liked football better because he always made a lot of
mistakes when he did it.
One day, his mathematic teacher looked at Teddys homework and said that all
his homework were correct. Wow thata surprise! Of course the teacher was very
surprised and delighted. So, he called Teddy to his office and said to him, Teddy,
youve done all of your homework right this time. Youre doing great. Well done,
Teddy, did your father helps you?
No, Sir. Teddy said, Usually my father did it for me. But last night he was
very busy. He had a meeting. So, he couldnt do my homework. Then I had to do it
myself last night.

4. Talking cat
Mrs. Andrew had a young cat and it was the cats first winter. One
evening, the cat was outside when it began to snow heavily. Mrs. Andrew
looked for it everywhere and shouted its name, but she did not find it. So, she
telephoned the police and said, I have lost a small black cat. Has anybody
found one?
No, maam, said the policeman at the other end. But, cats are very
strong animals. They sometimes live for days in the snow and, when it melts
or somebody finds them, they are quite alright,
Mrs. Andrew felt happier when she heard that. I think youre right,
officer, she said, and besides, our cat is very clever. She almost talks.
The policeman was getting rather tired. Well, then, he said, Why
dont you put your telephone down? Perhaps she is trying to telephone you
now.

5. Lost or lazy
Mr. Huntington takes a walk from his house to the city park every day. He
lives at 8 oclock in the morning and gets home by lunch time.

One day Mr. Huntington went home late and two policemen accompanied
him. After knocking the door, one of the policemen told Mrs. Alison, who is the
daughter of Mr. Huntington, that her father lost his way and had called the police
statiion.
When the policemen had left the house, Mrs. Alison asked her father how he
could lose the way because he had been to the park for 25 years. Later, he admitted
that he did not lose the way. He just felt so lazy to go home on foot, so he called the
policemen to take him home.

6. A Mean farmer
One day a farmer, who was well-known in his village as a very mean man,
said, l will give three meals and twenty five pence to anyone who is willing to do a
day's work for me. This offer was accepted by a hungry tramp, who was more
interested in the meals than the money.
You can have your breakfast first. said the farmer, and then you can start
working. The farmer gave the tramp a very small breakfast and the tramp ate it up.
Now you can have your lunch. This will save us a lot of time, the farmer
said The tramp agreed and ate the poor lunch.
Before he had finished, the farmer said, What would you say to have supper
also whileyou are about it?
l will try to enjoy other meals, replied the tramp. Then he had his supper,
which again was not a very filling meal. When it was over, the farmer looked very
pleased and said, Now you can do a long day's work.
No, thank you. was the tramp's reply, as he rose to leave, l never work after
supper.

7. Green, Pink,Yellow
An English teacher was teaching about colors to his students. After he finished
explaining, he asked his students. Who can make a sentence using the word green,
pink, and yellow?
James, the cleverest in the class, quickly raised. his hand and answered,
When the yellow morning sun comes, I see a beautiful girl wearing a pink T-shirt
walking through the green grass,
Great! James you are very good student, said the teacher
Me, me, Sir Johnny, the fool students in the class, said while raising his hand, And
then he said, I heard the telephone green., green, green then I pink up the receiver
and I said, Yellow, whos speaking there?