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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 04, 2021, 02:27:48 pm --- (I question the advisability of bioengineering a new strain of E. coli, but it's kind of fun to think you could do it in your kitchen.)
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Yes, isn't it usually done in the bathroom?
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 05, 2021, 05:57:16 pm ---... about midway through it devolved, like most S&Ms, into such over-the-top absurdity it wasn't funny anymore.
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yes, that seems to be their formula.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 05, 2021, 05:57:16 pm ---I've never understood why a humor column in the New Yorker, which you'd think could access the funniest writers in the business, is so often less funny than your standard SNL sketch.
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I actually have an idea for a S&M column that I'd like to run by everyone to see if y'all think it's worth developing.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 06, 2021, 02:31:19 pm ---I actually have an idea for a S&M column that I'd like to run by everyone to see if y'all think it's worth developing.
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Let's hear (see) it!
I recently had an idea and actually did write it and submitted it to S&M. No response. Too subtle, maybe. :laugh:
I tried a couple of other humor publications -- McSweeney's and The Rumpus, heard nothing, and gave up.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 06, 2021, 07:16:16 pm ---Let's hear (see) it!
I recently had an idea and actually did write it and submitted it to S&M. No response. Too subtle, maybe. :laugh:
I tried a couple of other humor publications -- McSweeney's and The Rumpus, heard nothing, and gave up.
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I guess I've told this story before. More than 40 years ago, now, I sent in something for those little column fillers. It was accepted, and I got, I think, ten dollars for it. My entry was a headline from the local hometown newspaper:
"Pot is the heart of winter cookery"
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 06, 2021, 09:57:42 pm ---I guess I've told this story before. More than 40 years ago, now, I sent in something for those little column fillers. It was accepted, and I got, I think, ten dollars for it. My entry was a headline from the local hometown newspaper:
"Pot is the heart of winter cookery"
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:laugh:
No, I don't remember you telling us that before! You could, with just a tiny stretch, put the New Yorker on your list of publications on your resume!
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