Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
HFBoards has an incredibly toxic community, but it also has some pretty great parts as well (there's some very in-depth discussion on occasion, as well as some humorous threads). Still, the community (and awful moderators) makes me not want to stick around for the great bits.
The Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the  Spruce Goose ; registration NX37602) is a prototype heavy strategic airlift military transport aircraft designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company.oward Hughes was called to testify before the Senate War Investigating Committee in 1947 over the use of government funds for the aircraft. During a Senate hearing on August 6, 1947 (the first of a series of appearances), Hughes said: The Hercules was a monumental undertaking.