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...Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, also returned to peacetime after the wartime effort. During the war years, the 'Poon kept its publication up with a barebones staff and reprints of material, managing to send one issue to every Harvard student serving in the military...
...many astronomers, last week's near-miss of asteroid 1996JA1, as it has been officially designated, was a kind of warning shot across Earth's bow. They have been trying to convince the world--with only modest success--that asteroids like this one represent a clear and present danger. To meet that threat, they have proposed a network of computer-monitored telescopes (equipped with sensitive electronic cameras) that would seek out threatening asteroids or comets in plenty of time to fend them off with appropriately designed long-range missiles...
...acquaintance with the Lampoon, Principal Skinner receives an airline ticket in an envelope addressed to "Springfield Elementary School, 18 Plympton Street" and when Bart and Lisa discover that Homer's long-lost mother has a collection of phony drivers' licenses, one lists her address as 44 Bow Street...
Both 18 Plympton Street and 44 Bow Street are addresses for the Lampoon Castle...
From the inception of the show seven years ago, The Simpsons had a core of writers that graduated from Harvard and were editors at the Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow St. social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine...