Word: lampooning
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Here at Harvard, the Lampoon, a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, has its own vaunted prank tradition. Although of late its pranks are rare, small in scope, and bereft of any real ingenuity, in its heyday members were responsible for a number of shrewdly cunning acts of civil disobedience...
...Lampoon members captured and held hostage the Sacred Cod that hangs in perpetuity over the House chamber in the Massachusetts State House. This wooden cod’s effigy both symbolizes the importance of fishing to the Bay State’s early economy and serves as an unofficial good-luck-charm to representatives. As a result of its disappearance, Massachusetts state police were forced into conducting a statewide cod-hunt; woebegone representatives refused to legislate without their fish...
...Something about Mary.” “Don’t see it,” he added, referring to his memorable clash between his penis and the zipper of his pants. Even after the trials of the roast and a tour of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, Stiller still emerged with a positive opinion of the University and said that he had a “great day.” Stiller, who attended the University of California in Los Angeles...
...Officers were dispatched to the Harvard Lampoon to a report of an individual reportedly throwing cans out of a window. The officers arrived and spoke to the individual and reported that the situation had been rectified...
During his college years, Franken—who would later become one of the two founding writers for Saturday Night Live—was famously rejected from the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...