Word: lampooner
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Vellucci says that the Lampoon protested the planting of the tree in front of their building in 1963, saying that it obstructed the view of their fabulously anachronistic castle. The protests continued through the years, as the tree was mysteriously hit three times by vandals...
City Arborist Jack. R. Kelley says the vandal's identity is unimportant, adding that the vandalization occurred six weeks after the Lampoon requested the tree be removed...
...Lampoon never gave it a chance and never looked at it when it was pruned," says Kelley. "I think that in their haste, this is what happened. I'm not going to take away from the building aesthetic...
...race between the Lampoon and the Sackler as to who is the ugliest, the Lampoon wins," says Vellucci, who once sponsored a city order to turn the Lampoon into a public urinal on the grounds that it looked like one, anyway...
Vellucci says that his long-standing disdain for the Lampoon dates back to the early days of the Lampoon-tree rivalry. He says that the mutual sentiments stem back to an incident in the early Sixties involving the copper Ibis, now electrified and resting on the roof of the castle...