Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl? I told you we'd see a lot of weirdies. The school doesn't care what they look like or act like just so long as they go to class. I'll take bets. Is it a boy or is it a girl? The Lampoon is in the odd-shapped building we just passed on the left. The CRIMSON is on the right. Be careful of the bicycle, George, it has the right...
...lbis, however, has far from dominated the hoaxes and scandals centering around the Lampoon building in Freedom Square, including a long history of hassles with courts and police due to charges of obscenity in their magazine, with such articles as "Desire Below the Mason-Dixon Line," a 1935 parody of Faulkner...
...whereabouts of the cod remained unknown for over a week while evidence piled up against Harvard culprits and eventually pointed to the Lampoon. Guards told newsmen elaborate stories of a "curly haired boy" standing near the cod, holding a large, long florist's box. 'But," one guard said, "from him came the breath of something other than lilies. It was a sort of alcoholic fragrance." The alcoholic fragrance turned to a drunken stench as the city of Boston got increasingly enraged. The Post reported angrily that "the thief was intoxicated...badly in need of a shave...wore brown clothing...
Then in 1936, another great symbol of state was threatened by the Lampoon, this time the Supreme Court. On May 8, 1936 the nation awoke to find the official flag of the U.S.S.R. flying over the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., with a copy of "Down With Capitalism," a recent issue of the Lampoon, at the base of the flagpole. Representative Tomas Blanton (D.-Tex.) literally rushed to the rostrum of the House "to warn his colleagues and the country," "suspecting that the flag might mean the signal for social revolution," according to the Boston Post...
...cases. Yet, despite recent atmosphere of flippancy towards laws and rules, it would seem that a major prohibitive factor in the pranks market lies in fear of trespassing or lawbreaking. A perfect example of this was in the elaborate 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings plotted by the Lampoon last year. Rich and jubilant after a tremendously successful Play boy parody, the Poonies hired elephants and specially designed bows and arrows to re-enact the great battle right here at Cambridge-on-the-Charles. All the arrangements were made amidst great excitement and relative secrecy. What stopped the warriors...