From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.
Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen, was an actual baron living in 18th-century Hanover famous for entertaining his guests with outrageously-embellished tales of his wartime exploits—so much so that his nickname in German is Lügenbaron, or “Baron of Lies.” When Rudolph Eric Raspe, a writer and scientist living in England, heard of