Two men were walking through the woods and come across a very big deep hole.

"Wow...that looks deep." One replied,"Sure does... toss a few pebbles in there and we will
see how deep this hole is." Then they pick up a few pebbles and throw them in and wait...
no noise "Geeez. That is really deep... here.. throw one of these great big rocks down
there. Those should make a noise." After that, they pick up a couple football-sized rocks
and toss them into the hole and wait... and wait. but no noise they heard.
Wow.. They were really impressed with how deep hole it was. They look at each other in
amazement. One gets a determined look on his face and says, "Hey...over here in the
weeds, there's a railroad tie. Help me carry it over here. When we toss that sucker in this
hole, it's must make some noise."
The two men drag the heavy tie over to the hole and heave it in. But, not a sound comes
from the hole. Suddenly, out of the nearby woods, a goat appears, running like the wind.
It rushes toward the two men, then right past them, running as fast as its legs will carry it.
Suddenly it leaps in the air and into the hole. The goat disappeared into the deep hole.
The two men are astonished with what they've just seen. How could a goat jump into the
hole? Then, not long after that, out of the woods comes a farmer. He seemed to seek
something and asked to the two men, "Hey two guys... have you seen my goat out here?"
Feeling amazing with what they saw of a goat jumping to the hole, they answer
straightly,"You bet we did! Craziest thing I've ever seen! A goat came running like crazy
and just jumped into this hole!"
The farmer thought a moment and said, "That could not have been my goat. Because my
goat was chained to a railroad tie." Then he left the two men.
This example of spoof text is rewritten from: www.funnies.com
The spoof text is commonly written in a story. While we are talking about a story, it will
be close related to narrative and recount text. What is narrative, what is recount and what
is spoof text its self are easily differed from one to other by seeing the generic structure.
Spoof, narrative and recount are similar in how they are constructed in the first step. They
recount the event and experience which introduce the participant, time and place setting.
However in the end of the text, the way they are closed are different from one to other.
Narrative will be closed by a resolution which refers to the conflict. Recount will be
concluded with a re-orientation. While spoof will end the story with some unpredictable
way of plot. That unpredictable way is called twist. See the following example of spoof
text amazing animal which is simplified from top20fun.
The Spying parrot
A guy was having marital problems. He and the wife were not communicating at all and
he had lonesome so he went to a pet store thinking a pet might help.
In the store he came to parrots. As he wandered down the rows of parrots he noticed one
with no feet. Surprised he mutters "I wonder how he hangs onto the perch?"

The parrot said "With my prick, you dummy."

The guy was startled and said "You certainly talk well for a parrot."
The parrot said "Of course, I'm very well educated. I can discuss politics, sports, religion,
most any subject you wish."
The guy said "Gee, you sound like just what I was looking for."
Then the guy bought the parrot and for three months things go great. When he came
home from work the parrot told him about the recent and hottest news.
One day the guy come home from work and the parrot waved a wing at him and said
"Come in and shut the door."
The guy said "What's up?"
The parrot said "I don't know how to tell you this, but the mailman came today. I saw that
your wife answered the door in her transparent gown and he kissed her right on the lips."
The guy said "He did? Did you see?"
The parrot said " Yes, Then he pulled her gown down... and ....."
"My God, what happened next?"The guy said curiously to know next.
Then the parrot replied "I don't know. I got a hard-on and fell off my perch."
Early one morning, a mother went in to wake up her son. "Wake up, son. It's time to go to
school!"
"But why, Mom? I don't want to go."
"Give me two reasons why you don't want to go."
"Well, the kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!"
"Oh, that's no reason not to go to school. Come on now and get ready."
"Give me two reasons why I should go to school."
"Well, for one, you're 52 years old. And for another, you're the Principal!"
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."
(Re-written from www.onlyfunnystories.com)

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

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.
Reading spoof and recount text will arouse the convenience. Both spoof and recount
genre explore the informative fact for the past experience. In literary term, experience can
be factual or imaginative, objective or subjective. Both spoof and recount focus on series
of
event
which
happened.
However for functional view, recount text emphasizes in detailed information of the
events. It reveals the series of events in chronological order based on time or place. In the
other hand, spoof text tends to project the amusement of reading. Spoof text uses tricky
plot to drive readers to certain view and sooner brings the reader to the opposite point.
This
trick
will
result
amusement
of
reading.
Clearly the different flow plots used by spoof and recount are seen at the applied generic
structure. For the first stages, both spoof and recount have similarity. Both introduce the
participants of the story and, orientate the main event and set the time and place. After
that both spoof and recount text expose the following events in detail. The last phase is
what makes them different. Recount text will summarize the introduction and closed with
the writer's subjective feeling concerning the events. Meanwhile spoof text will end the
story with what we call TWIST. It is the unpredictable thing. Reader has expected certain
point in the ending on the contrary hand the story itself moves to another unexpected
ending.

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