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...exactly unqualified appreciation. More like puzzlement, or even worse, ridicule. The Band looks funny on the field, our formations are not exactly spectacular, it’s hard to hear what our announcer is saying, we don’t always sound that great, we constantly laugh at our own inside jokes and we make funny hand signals when we sing songs that most undergraduates can’t identify. We certainly don’t “march.” We’re at most sporting events, and although it’s not unusual...
...when our fire squad in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has lost half its members?” Colton and Aboud asked for feedback from readers and the response was tremendous. “We got hundreds and hundreds of e-mails from people saying ‘we want to laugh again,’” Colton says. One particularly thoughtful message came from someone who worked in the Pentagon...
...could lead to leaden earnestness. Or it’s possible to move into a more refined ironic sensibility where we do take ourselves and the world’s threats seriously,” he says. “It’s a civilized capacity to laugh at ourselves in small ways even as we go about big things...
...Celebrities were idiotic before and Mariah Carey will continue to post idiotic things on her website,” says Borowitz. “The right to be trivial is protected in wartime. You cannot work and be serious all the time. We will laugh again, maybe not at Zoolander, but we will laugh. People are scared and skittish but the laughter will...
Lesley girls laugh at the suggestion of on-campus parties. “You don’t go to a women’s college for parties,” states McGrath. For a night on the town, students usually opt to get out of town. Of the 550 undergraduates, most choose to either party with friends at colleges in Boston, or to spend their weekends at home. For the minority who do stay on campus, Saturday nights remain low-key. “It’s always quiet when you need quiet,” says Jackie...