Re: The Genius Of The Underemployed

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That's a lot of work! I LOLed at the Father Hats ad.


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 6:41 AM
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Also the Gladwell ad. I haven't even gotten to the articles.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 6:42 AM
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The cartoons are funnier than the ones in the real N'orker.


Posted by: proportionwheel | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 7:46 AM
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3. Are they all captioned, "Christ, what an asshole!"?


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 7:47 AM
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The horse life article is a superb extended parody of the rich person blithely unaware of how rich they actually are.


Posted by: Richard J | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 8:18 AM
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The cartoons are funnier than the ones in the real N'orker.

Not a high bar.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 8:51 AM
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Didn't somebody link to this before?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 9:07 AM
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7: Yes.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 9:10 AM
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That was me but of course in our PC-addled culture no one listens when it's a straight white man talking.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 9:54 AM
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Persians are totally the white men of the Middle East.


Posted by: Opinionated King Belshazzar | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 9:59 AM
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I think, rather than "someone", this was for real the work of the people listed in the contributors page.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 12:03 PM
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The movie capsule reviews are great.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 12:09 PM
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7: didn't National Lampoon used to do these all the time?


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 12:35 PM
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acela: the Train for Nieces.

I don't know why that strikes me so funny, but it does.


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 4:35 PM
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Or for that matter the "Orsnow" bank ad. "You're worked hard for your money... we'll take it from here."


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 4:37 PM
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Yeah the bank ad was great. But how much of this did you (all) actually read? I'm a little concerned that the writers might have read as many as two or three actual New Yorkers cover-to-cover.


Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 5:00 PM
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It repays actual reading. Thus far the "Tomb Reader" letters from Prof. Elijah Draven -- which tell a poignant but ultimately triumphant story of one man's search for ill-gotten immortality and appreciation of Chilean verse -- and the review of "Death of a Whalesman" (a play that consists of a bunch of whale carcasses rotting on a stage) are gold.


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 8:29 PM
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13. Yes, they did.

On a related note, there's this


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 9:37 PM
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Favourite ad was for Jeff University. Loved the whale carcass review and the profile of the band Fort Blanket.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 9:41 PM
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Matthew Deuczynski is a man after my own heart.


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 06-17-16 10:39 PM
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The cartoons rock way funnier than those on the New Yorker!


Posted by: Clifford Thompson | Link to this comment | 06-20-16 1:21 AM
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