[Shermy]

is this satire?

Yes. Cooking utensils. Police investigation, etc.

[ko_kyi]

If Memri.org was had on this they should be pretty chagrined.

As an author of satire myself, I have to really appreciate satire that rides the knife-edge of reality.

I have been in a writing slump because reality keeps trumping my ideas.

[adam_az]

It's a translation from an Egyptian paper.

Al-Ahram Al-Arabi (Egypt) August 9, 2003.

Lots of other whacko stuff from them:

http://memri.org/bin/search/search.cgi?nocpp=1&p%3Ats_udav=0&sort-method=1&Match=0&Terms=Al-Ahram+Al-Arabi&Realm=All