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A "LAKELY" STORY: My friend from Michigan says if you pushed all the Great Lakes together they’d be as big as the Mediterranean. I say, why bother?
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BRIDE: (QUIETLY, TEARFUL) Ladies and gentlemen ... I'm afraid there won't be a wedding after all. Because, you see ... my fiancé has ... has died.
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PET PEEVE: If there is one thing that really honks me off, it's the hopelessness and futility of the human condition
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Only three issues were ever published. The first issue was reprinted and included in the September 2004 issue of
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The magazine consisted mostly of very short and surreal jokes, along with cartoons. Each issue also featured
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was never widely distributed, it garnered a lot of attention in the comedy world. Two of its writers (
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NEEDED: What this country needs is a good five-cent sports car (referencing a famous quote by former
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who allegedly remarked "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.").
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Irregularly published magazines published in the United States
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BRIDE: (LOUDER, ALMOST HYSTERICAL) My fiancé has died!
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Other notable contributors of the magazine included
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George Meyer
Humor magazine
United States
Boulder, Colorado
English
George Meyer
The Simpsons
Jack Handey
Deep Thoughts
John Swartzwelder
Jon Vitti
Sam Simon
Jeff Martin
David Sacks
Ian Maxtone-Graham
Tom Gammill
Max Pross
Kevin Curran

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