Word: lampooner
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...Wednesday--Highbrow journalism mogul Rupert Murdoch announces that he has bought the Harvard Independent for $1500. Murdoch adds in an interview on Channel 5 that he also considered purchasing the Lampoon, but decided it wouldn't be profitable. "That's not funny!" barks Lampy president Daniel J. Greaney...
...Thursday--Three animal-rights activists break into the Harvard Lampoon's Castle, holding Lampy President Daniel J. Greaney '87 hostage for five days to protest what they say is a planned Lampoon prank to dynamite six sheep the following month during a speech by the Prince of Wales at Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration...
...Daily Princetonian says the Lampoon had nothing to do with the hoax, which was a huge failure. Meanwhile, a University of Pennsylvania debating society has also claimed responsibility for the prank...
...Lampoon can't decide whether it actually pulled off the prank, whether it didn't play the trick but is accepting responsibility for it, or whether it actually had nothing to do with the whole incident...
Sources said that the Lampoon was too busy with preparations for its upcoming visit by Pee Wee Herman--who last week arrived in Cambridge to accept the humor society's Elmer Award--to achieve anything that clever or funny...