08/28/2008
History of college humor magazines on display (Beloit Daily News)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The college graduate, wearing the traditional cap and gown, sits on top of the world. A closer look shows the world is actually a bomb and a lit fuse is coming out of one side.
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08/27/2008
Magazine collection traces college humor history (The Daily Texan)
MADISON, Wis. - The college graduate, wearing the traditional cap and gown, sits on top of the world. A closer look shows the world is actually a bomb and a lit fuse is coming out of one side. The date on the cover is May 1939, more than two years before the United States entered World War II, but the University of Michigan Gargoyle humor magazine was clearly on to something.
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08/28/2008
The history of college humor (Belleville News-Democrat)
The college graduate, wearing the traditional cap and gown, sits on top of the world.
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08/29/2008
Ricken steps through goalposts of life at installation (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
In the midst of one of the most magnificent Catholic ceremonies likely to happen in Green Bay, Bishop David Ricken flashed the humor that had endeared him to his previous flock in Wyoming.
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08/28/2008
The Dish: Diary of a mad director (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
In a "Spanish diary" he purportedly kept for the New York Times while filming "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Woody Allen displays humor seen only intermittently in his recent films. "Shot a torrid love scene today between Scarlett and Javier," he notes.
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08/28/2008
NJ GOP sees no humor in Lautenberg lobbyist quip (phillyburbs.com)
TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg is facing some criticism over some comments he made to ABC World News about parties hosted by lobbyists.
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08/28/2008
GOP VP hopefuls wait it out with humor (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
John McCain's potential running mates were in what amounted to a high-stakes waiting game Wednesday as the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting prepared to announce his running mate in the coming days.
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08/28/2008
Column: White-powder Letters Evolve For '08 Election (CBS News)
This past Friday, a jail inmate was charged with sending a silly little threatening letter with white powder to a John McCain for el presidente headquarters (an office with presumably little-to-no good sense of humor) in Colorado. The issue did not arise so much because of a simple little threat ("If you are reading this, then you are already dead!"). It's the "white powder" part.
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08/26/2008
Good Humor truck (The Star-Ledger)
5949. I also saw an old fashion Good Humor truck in a parking lot in PA the other day. Couldn't get over to take a picture. It brought back so many good memories of summer and my toasted almond ice cream
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08/29/2008
'I Served the King of England': Czechs and Balances (The New York Sun)
In 1966, the Czechoslovakian filmmaker Jiri Menzel played his part in his country's New Wave with "Closely Watched Trains," his Oscar-winning movie about a hopeless railroad worker during the Nazi occupation who volunteers for a suicide mission. Based on a novel by Bohumil Hrabal, it was in fact a comedy, in accordance with a national strain of black humor that would meet a failed suicide ...
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