Word: lampooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impossible to deny that the Lampoon has been up to some damn funny stuff lately. I'm probably breaking any number of Crimson internal editorial commandments when I say so, but if its recent activity means anything, the semisecret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine seems intent on moving away from its "final-club-lite" reputation and toward a more relevant role on campus...
...last few years, the Lampoon seems to have been living off its longstanding reputation as the most vital source of humor at Harvard, basking cockily in the recent success of alumni Conan C. O'Brien '85 and a number of writers for "The Simpsons." Whole semesters have gone by with scarcely a word from the Castle, and some of the Lampoon's magazines have been so dull as to make one wonder if they weren't Demon-orchestrated counterfeits, produced to sully the organization's name...
Sure, it's possible I'm just secretly thankful that the Lampoon skipped The Crimson this time around, instead publishing mock versions of the Advocate, Gazette, Independent and Peninsula...
...argue with the mock "Peninsula Woman Presidents of the United States Watch" or "The Peninsula Strom Thurmond Three Bullets Away From the Presidency Watch?" How can you argue with an item in the fake Gazette titled "Loker Commons to Add Customers"? Maybe the Lampoon, if it was responsible, went too far last week by sending dozens of first-years to the Hasty Pudding for a punch event at which they weren't welcome. The prank displayed a callousness and an unmitigated deviousness that cannot be condoned. It was also one of the funniest things to happen on campus...
...five hundred freshmen that got their feelings hurt. [Officers of the Hasty Pudding Club] are desperately sorry that the Lampoon would manipulate our name to hurt freshmen," Friedland said...