Those clever wags from the Lampoon are up to their hilarious hijinks again.
Just days into a new administration at the semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, it seemed like the 'Poonsters were up to their old tricks.
Lampoon editors had just put the finishing touches on a parody of Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily, The Harvard Crimson.
But to the 'Poonsters' chargin, the parody--dated today--was lost before it could be distributed to a humor-deprived campus. Somehow, on the way from the printer to the Lampoon's mock-Flemish castle, the issues were lost without a trace.
Lampoon President Matthew C. Warburton '00, newly presiding over the 122-year old laugh factory, could not explain the paper's disappearance.
"Would that if I knew," he said in an interview with The Crimson yesterday.
Warburton said his organization suspected The Crimson might be behind the mysterious disappearance.
But Crimson President Joshua H. Simon '00 yesterday disavowed all knowledge of the papers' whereabouts.
"Let me make this perfectly clear: I did not have relations with that newspaper, The Crimson parody," Simon said. "And I didn't ask anyone to lie. Not once--never."
But a gaggle of Lampoon editors were not convinced. At about 9:30 p.m. last night, about 20 'Poonsters stormed the Crimson building before they were rebuffed by Crimson strong-people.
The 'Poonsters then held a sit-in protest for 10 minutes before being tossed from the building by former Crimson production supervisor Patrick R. Sorrento, a 62-year-old priest from Everett.
Without a backup plan, they retreated to their castle to sulk.
Yuks Galore
Despite the unknown whereabouts of the parody issues, The Crimson has learned that the Lampoon has outdone itself again.
The eight-page parody issue, coming Following the Lampoon tradition of innovationand subtlety, this parody's writers hit upon acutting-edge concept: bathroom humor. Read more in News
