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Onlookers passing by the Lampoon Castle Sunday afternoon were suspicious to see a trampoline gracing its front steps. They may not have realized, however, that the elaborate outdoor setup was part of yet another bad Lampoon joke...
...hard for me to get too excited about it. Sure, Gay and Powell never failed drug tests, and no one has accused them of using steroids. But Marion Jones passed all those tests when she was using back in 2000, which makes testing seem like a joke. In today's track world, as far as I'm concerned, you're practically guilty until proven innocent, and really, how can you prove you're innocent...
...Daniel Williams should single out the Springboks for being "brutal." After all, both the South Africans and the New Zealanders were originally taught this game by Scottish Presbyterians. The dour Scots obviously never fathomed the English humor in the ridiculous 16-man scrum. It was all meant as a joke, to keep robust adolescent schoolboys occupied during winter - when they could not play cricket. Deon Thom George, South Africa
...nationwide use as fodder for amusement—surfing the Facebook. This spring, the duo aims to release a facetious guidebook for the popular social networking Web site created by Harvard dropout Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006. The book, Lushing said, will feature joke pieces, satires, urban legends, and “fictional and fanciful” anecdotes. “The book is like a Facebook number from the Harvard Lampoon,” said Lushing, a former member of the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish...
...best friends from high school and I always like to reminisce about our AP Literature class and how much of a joke it was. It was our teacher’s first and last year in a public school, and she assigned too many books, which I suppose wasn’t really a problem—we didn’t read most of them. Ironically enough, the only one that I—one of just two black males in the class—ended up reading was Jewish author Bernard Malamud’s 1957 novel...