Word: poons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official proceedings, broadcast over the 'Poon's public address system, were somewhat marred by rival CRIMSON loudspeakers established in adjoining Adams and Lowell rooms. Later, after the members of the newly-formed "State of Lampoon" had retired behind their barbed wire and sawdust sack fortifications, these barricades were breached by a determined charge, which reached the front door of the building and obtained half of the "State of Lampoon" banner before the cessation of hostilities...
...been rumored that the 'Poon was putting out a parody issue for the Yale game, but no one ever expected a bogus football program. Being a surprise makes it doubly good...
This is the second time around the Bow Street della for the metropolitan weekly. It last achieved the doubtful distinction of a Poon parody in 1939, when the issue went through four fast editions to become a collector's item...
Only a limited number of New Yorker parodies have been printed, but 'Poon officials stand ready to bring out extra issues if the demand exceeds the supply...
...check with Dean Watson last night quashed the ripe rumor that the entire Lampoon board was threatened with probation, but Watson confided that he planned to confer with new 'Poon President George Plympton in the near future...