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Offline Front-Ranger

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Good topics for TNY's Shouts & Murmurs
« on: Yesterday at 10:50:16 am »
I thought of a good topic for Shouts & Murmurs today. (Let's face it, they need help.)

This would be a transcript of me on the phone trying to help my friend M. with his computer. Hilarious. I don't know if I'll have time to write it during the holidays but I'll try to schedule myself to get up early one day and write it all in one burst.

What are your ideas?
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Re: Good topics for TNY's Shouts & Murmurs
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 04:01:55 pm »
What is Shouts & Murmurs?
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Re: Good topics for TNY's Shouts & Murmurs
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 05:20:18 pm »
Quote from: Sason on Yesterday at 04:01:55 pm
What is Shouts & Murmurs?

It's a short "humor" column in the New Yorker, by mostly different writers on different subjects with different styles. I use scare quotes because it tend not to be very funny. Lee's sounds like it has possibilities, though!

Here's perhaps my favorite one ever -- it ran more than 20 years ago and I've never forgotten it. It's not super funny, either, but it's a clever concept well carried out. I can't find the original in the New Yorker, but that's just as well because it might be paywalled. Here it is reprinted in a blog or something.

https://matefl.org/a-sipid-story-of-requited-love.html


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