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Crossing the Streams
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It's the heart's the crazy bus driver
It's the heart's the crazy bus driver
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Be My Blog 
Ok, the Internet is done now. Shut ‘er down!
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is it a good thing that i don’t get the joke?
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See the two links. The original cartoon from 1993 was the first time an Internet joke showed up in the New Yorker and it was a pretty good one, especially since it was pre-Web and not many people were using the Net.
The second one was the more recent discovery that all New Yorker cartoons can be captioned “Christ, what an asshole!” successfully. I didn’t want to ruin the joke in the post but it’s okay in comments 😉
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Hope you don’t mind that I added you to my friends list. Found you via and am impressed with your writing.
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Thank you so much and welcome.
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Moof
Should I interpret that as a death threat to cartoon dogs???
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Re: Moof
I hope someone, somewhere, finds it sexy that when I read this a little spray of snot came zooming out of my nose, so sudden was my chorf.
If not, at least maybe someone, somewhere, has a desire to hand me lots of kleenex and, eventually, tie on my bib and hold my drool cup.
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So sudden was my chorf
I have not been able to stop saying this all day. Such poetry!
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Re: So sudden was my chorf
Sadly, such poetry seems only to come when I least expect it. I’ve been trying to think of a clever response to your lovely compliment, but all that mental exertion has led mostly to napping and candy eating. But that’s only because I don’t have any pie handy.
Thank you!
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nice
I got it. I realized after reading your analysis that I had seen the original cartoon long ago, forgotten this fact, and that now I had thought that EVERYBODY had seen the cartoon. Furthermore, I thought this was a knockoff of the original cartoon (which EVERYBODY had seen, remember), with an updated caption which was diagnostic that it was not a New Yorker cartoon. So it must be a knockoff, see.
The net was that I thought it was a VERY funny update. But, after reading the analysis, and thinking through my tortuous reaction, I now think that it’s too internet-savvy to be generally funny. Like, on the Onion, but not in the New Yorker.
And I bet I’m wrong. I haven’t read (i.e., thumb through the cartoons of) a New Yorker in a few years.
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