Word: poon
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...Though all of the House committee chairs were invited to attend, only Katherine A. Murphy '01 and Michael S. Weidman '01 of Adams, Nancy M. Poon '01 of Dunster and Michael E. Thakur '01 of Quincy were able to attend...
...would be complete without a mention of Thomas Pynchon, and the Guide to College Admissions obliges (see p. 148, and maybe others that I missed). The Lampoon's collective obsession with Pynchon is bizarre, and probably beyond my ability to explain. Pynchon the novelist is inaccessible, just like the 'Poon. Very few people make it all the way through his books, just like very few people can read an entire issue of the Lampoon. And people who do read Pynchon get to feel like they're part of a special intellectual club - just like the Lampoon thinks...
...will understand them. To the magazine's credit, more of the latest Lampoon effort than usual is funny on its own. But to get some of the gags you would have to take the same classes at Harvard as the students who wrote the book. The boys at the 'Poon certainly know what they're doing, though: making obscure references the basis for their humor inoculates them against the common charge that they are just not very funny. But, they can retort, the incomprehensible article in five-point type of the last issue was simply hilarious if you've read...
most raucous nonsense, and drank a lot of a drink we invented called 'Poon...
...College treat the Lampoon with some leniency. The Lampoon claims that the repeated false alarms at the castle have been due to a faulty fire alarm. (Although, of course, that wouldn't explain the burnt newspaper the fire investigator found after the May 16 call to the 'Poon.) The Lampoon's current predicament is funny, in a hapless, pathetic kind of way, but their antics aren't so grave that the editor of the magazine deserves to have a police record for arson for the rest of his life. A criminal prosecution in an attempt to make an example...