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Re: [ARSCLIST] Fw: 1924
Note that, at the bottom of the page, there is an article that says, "as
early as 1930." A clue there?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Fw: 1924
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dick Spottswood
> >A particularly amusing 1924 front page from The Onion, with a headline
> >article on the activities of the New York Institute of Cultural
> Appropriation:
> > http://theonion.com/4003/history.html
> Does anybody know if these were actually written and issued in 1924? I
> recall
> having seen another link to an Onion front page on 78-L, which had the
same
> story about "dunking" on it. Some of the content doesn't totally ring true
> as
> 1924-style thinking, and looks to have been more what someone thought
SHOULD
> have been written in 1924 (or WOULD have been)...
> Steven C. Barr
>