Posted on 02/04/2007 5:45:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Nate Merrill of Old Orchard Beach was browsing through a New Yorker magazine recently when he noticed a cartoon of a man walking by a joint named "Harvey's Place." A sign in the window advertised an evening discussion titled: "Is String Theory (expletive)?" Funny? Perhaps. Offensive? Merrill thought so. "I said I think the New Yorker has taken a step back," he said. "Five years ago, there's no way they would have published cartoons like that." There are times in life when a person needs to say something a little stronger than "Oh, fudge." And "fiddlesticks" doesn't pack quite the same punch, either... At least three of comedian George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," recorded in 1972, are now commonplace on the street and in cable television. A fourth - well, all you have to do is tune into any episode of HBO's Old West series "Deadwood" to hear it bandied about by Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane as easily as if they were asking the bartender for a shot of whiskey.
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New Yorker cartoons are supposed to be funny?
Elaine: Yes , The New Yorker , I've met with their cartoon editor and I got him to admit that that cartoon
...MADE NO SENSE....
Drolly amusing. Somewhere I've got an old one; there's a jury box filled with jurors, and they're singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem".
Actually, if the New Yorker cartoon had the actual word, and not the word "expletive", then yes, I think the cartoon is funny.
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