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To: SunkenCiv

IIRC National Lampoon was spawned by the Harvard Lampoon.

And both had some connection with the original Saturday Night Live crew. Great time for humor.


43 posted on 04/02/2016 10:52:41 AM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham

Doug Kenney, perhaps best known for the "ya mo-ron" line in "Animal House", co-founded it, the three founders licensed in the "lampoon" part of the name from the HL (which is quite old, I think Saul Bellow used to write for it in his youth), and they hit the big time with this fake ad, which was on the back cover of their "Encyclopedia of Humor", two copies (in succession, one was confiscated thanks to an idiot classmate) were among the prized possessions of my early teens:
Encyclopedia of Humor

47 posted on 04/02/2016 3:25:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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