Word: yorkerism
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Some people believe that humorous fiction in The New Yorker has long been legally dead of inanition. Fans of Garrison Keillor and Veronica Geng, two of the magazine's steadiest contributors of whimsy, will disagree. But the most hilarious refutations of this charge have come from Author Ian Frazier, 35, an alumnus of the Harvard Lampoon and a New Yorker staff writer whose stories began bouncing off the wall and into the magazine some ten years ago. These appearances have, to be sure, been infrequent and highly irregular. Dating Your Mom collects a decade's worth of funny business...
...Merrill Lynch will employ mostly Japanese as traders on the exchange floor, where transactions are carried out with hand signals that are based on the Japanese language. The company's first American trader is Raymond Forbes, a New Yorker. He speaks fluent Japanese and has already spent four months at the Tokyo exchange as a trader for Nikko Securities...
...shuttle tragedy left its mark in some unexpected places. The New Yorker magazine, for example, had to stop its presses to change a cartoon in last week's issue in which a man seated on a barstool tells his companion, "I wish they'd shoot my congressman into space!" For all but the earliest copies of the magazine, the caption was rewritten to say, "I used to be a warm human being, but now, I'm sorry to say, I'm a bit of a swine...
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...rest of the story is known by all New England sports fans, and anybody who raises a glass with them. Bucky Dent--that little New Yorker Bucky Dent, for chrissakes!--dinked a home run over the Green Monster to win the playoff game for the Yankees...