If the author's intentions were to confuse the reader, they sure did a good job. However, if they intented for it to be an obvious joke, I think they went a little too deep, thus failing to get the point across. Or maybe I'm just dumb... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or do I need a HumorFactory?

It is, just get to the refactoring part ;)

It very much is