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Offline Jeff Wrangler

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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3690 on: February 24, 2025, 06:49:36 pm »
I just finished--what else?--Jill Lepore's article. Who else but Jill Lepore would use the word patootie in a New Yorker article!  :laugh:

Am I ever going to get off my, well, patootie, and write her a fan letter?  :-\
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3691 on: February 27, 2025, 06:30:51 pm »
If you had an original copy of the first issue from 1925, I wonder how much it would be worth?
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3692 on: February 27, 2025, 07:29:51 pm »
A quick Google search shows a value of between $2500-$4500, depending on condition.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3693 on: February 28, 2025, 04:40:58 pm »
Interesting! Thanks, Paul.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3694 on: March 02, 2025, 12:02:06 am »
In the two-page Scribner's spread in the anniversary issue, I presume we all saw BBM in the book cover photos included in the spread.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3695 on: March 02, 2025, 01:49:39 pm »
You bet!
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3696 on: March 02, 2025, 03:24:10 pm »
I'm reading the marching band article now.

Reminds me of how my music career came to an end in fifth grade. I had politely waited and waited and waited in the hall outside the music room until the kid who came before me was finished with his lesson. When he finally left, the music teacher refused to give me my lesson because "I was late" (when I was just being polite), and it was time for someone else's lesson. When I got home from school and told me mother what had happened, she phoned the school and got the music teacher on the line. I didn't listen to her end of the conversation--I don't know why--but I presume she ripped the music teacher a new one, and that was the end of my music lessons/music career.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3697 on: March 04, 2025, 04:45:04 pm »
I'm reading Kathryn Schulz on spiders (the anniversary issue), and I love this sentence:

"To date, we know of some fifty thousand spider species, though, like this magazine, they are hard to keep up with, since new ones pile up every week."

 :laugh:
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3698 on: March 12, 2025, 04:41:48 pm »
It's no secret that I'm no fan of football, but the Nick Paumgarten article about New Orleans in the week before the Super Bowl (March 10) I found  quite interesting.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3699 on: March 12, 2025, 10:34:28 pm »
Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 04, 2025, 04:45:04 pm
I'm reading Kathryn Schulz on spiders (the anniversary issue), and I love this sentence:

"To date, we know of some fifty thousand spider species, though, like this magazine, they are hard to keep up with, since new ones pile up every week."

 :laugh: :laugh:

She gets us! (And it probably happens to her, too.)
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