| abstract | - Cracked.com is easily one of the more well-known humor sites on the internet. We've been eating and choking on their dust since 1958 when they made their internet debut. Though the sites' styles of humor are very different, as Uncyclopedia prefers jokes which contain as many references to grues and Oscar Wilde as possible, and Cracked prefers opinionated and pretentious lists, Cracked has noticeably been ripping off Uncyclopedia's great ideas. Take, for example, that they now have a section of the site which covers topics by any name. These articles cover any subject in an encyclopedic and humorous manner. Sound like anyone you know? "No"? What do you mean "No"? Here are some comparisons of Uncyclopedia and Cracked's articles on Adolf Hitler: Cracked's "writers" can't even seem to get their own material or facts. And they're not even being discreet about copying our facts, which we deliberately copied from Wikipedia, which Wikipedia recycled as a secondhand source of information, which some historians confirmed through records from the time. It's no surprise though that a recent UnNews research poll found Uncyclopedia to have more funny and facts than Cracked. The ratio of facts to jokes on Uncyclopedia is around a solid 1:1. On Cracked, it's about a 0:0, because they're not funny and they don't tell you anything you didn't already know. I mean really, everyone knows what the six most bogus conspiracy theories are. I don't need some unfunny geek telling me about the Bermuda Triangle or those Holocaust hoax theories. And you know what? There's no point in writing an article about the errors of Hollywood plot details. It's Hollywood. Bruce Willis movies and sci-fi flicks aren't supposed to make sense. Picking on Hollywood's computer science errors in sci-fi movies is like asking a student with Down's syndrome to write an article on 19th century Russian literature and then failing them for misspelling "Dostoyevsky".
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