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...Famous wit J. Christopher McDonald ’02 enjoys regaling acquaintances with tales of his charming insouciance. “So I said to the guy, ‘Blow me!’ Hahahahahahahaha!” recalled McDonald...
...known for a long time that Rachel would lead FM. She has always been a clever and talented writer. One of her stories, on irony, was assigned reading for a Harvard class (Leo Damrosch’s “Wit and Humor”). Over the year she has grown into being a patient but merciless editor, allergic to bullshit, her Vermont upbringing clearly supplying her with the ideal editor’s mix of outward bucolity covering a willingness to use firearms. And only recently have we discovered her fine public speaking skills. Rachel is great. I hope...
Pete’s good at wrangling free stuff for the magazine—a free afternoon shooting a Glock at a local firing range, a free “herbal vaporizer,” free strippers if ever the need should arise. He also freely dispenses his wit, his charm and his philosophy on men’s fashion. Pete came to FM relatively late in life. But it’s “the only thing on campus” that he reads, so he figured it would be the perfect place to contribute. The FM staff...
Bill Bryson doesn't look like a troublemaker. With his corduroy jacket, woolly pullover and roughly trimmed beard, he seems more the mild-mannered, professorial sort than a travel writer famous for his savage wit. This is, after all, the man who dismissed Australia's capital with the epithet "Canberra? Why Wait for Death?" Of Bradford, England, he opined that its sole purpose is "making every place else look better by comparison." And he doesn't hesitate to skewer his fellow Americans. Bryson's first book, a 1989 exploration of small-town U.S.A. called The Lost Continent, included the following...
Quincy House Senior Tutor Maria J. Trumpler praised McCarthy for his “wit and intellectual breadth...