[lit-ideas] Re: interstitial remark #3
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:08:02 -0500
No rubber testicles here, but lots of faux tiger tails "caught" in trunks.
But that's cuz of the Mizzou Tigers. I hope there's not a sports-related
reason for the testicles...
Julie Krueger
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The yogurt and culture joke is old. I heard it first about Los Angeles.
>
> I'm sure this one is old, too, but I like it:
>
> If you only have a year left to live, live it in Windsor. It'll feel like
> a lifetime.
>
> Never saw testicles hanging from a tailpipe...and glad of it. It might be
> why I moved to Canada...
>
> Ursula,
> glorying in the 74 degree breeze...(translated for the listening audience)
>
>
>
> John McCreery wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:
>> atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> That was a riff on Paul Stone's typo, not a comment on his posts,
>> reviews and critiques which I've always enjoyed. I'm writing this
>> because the most recent New Yorker's cover has made me sensitive
>> to the fact that humor is not always self-evident.
>>
>>
>> High end: Overheard on National Public Radio broadcasting from a station
>> in Iowa, where a computer programmer on assignment from some place east of
>> the Hudson was asked about life in Cedar Rapids.
>>
>> "Well...Do you know the difference between Dannone Yoghurt and Iowa?.....
>>
>>
>> One has live culture."
>>
>> Low end: Observed on the streets of Corpus Christi, Texas, large pick-up
>> trucks with lifelike rubber testicles handing from the tailpipe.
>>
>> Has this phenomenon been observed elsewhere?
>>
>> John
>> --
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>>
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