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The New Yorker Can Be Funny!
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For some of you, this week’s Shouts & Murmurs is the typical bland gimmick repeated ad nauseam. If you’re like me, however, it will crack you up.

July 17, 2008 / Uncategorized

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Wait a minute — this hyperlink is actually on top of a dog biscuit!

Hahaha… the narcissistic problems of folks in the first world (i.e., Manhattan) sure are funny.

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Funny you say that, because that one had me rapidly vacillating between the two opinions you suggest. I certainly laughed aloud a few times, but even as I did so I wasn’t quite sure the material was good enough to justify it.

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Something very Lampoonesque about that column. Except Mike Yank’s columns were funnier. Like the one about Adopt-A-Highway. Gotta find that.

(For the long, somewhat more homicidal treatment of the same joke see The Debt to Pleasure.)

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