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May 2009 Archive

May 19, 2009

154. To the best of my recollection, the piece I am looking for was a "letter to the editor" published in the NL in the early 1970's. The letter was about the benefits of taking "Bismuth" or something like that.

It was in a magazine parody called Goat in the June 1974 (Food) issue. (Thanks to Marcel for the answer.)

Posted May 19, 2009, 03:36 PM in Answers. | Comments (1)

May 15, 2009

153. Geoffrey Holder is listed as a performer on the "Classic National Lampoon 4-CD Boxed Set", but I have not been able to find any performer credits for each routine. Please let me know which routines on the National Lampoon LPs and CD's are performed by Holder.

The "Boxed Set" contains the previous NL albums "That's Not Funny, That's Sick", "The White Album", "The Greatest Hits of the National Lampoon", and "Sex, Drugs, Rock And Roll, & the End of the World". I have all of these albums (except "Greatest Hits", which contains only previously released tracks, all of which I have on other albums), and I don't see his name listed anywhere. Or, perhaps I missed it. If anyone else knows what, if anything, Mr. Holder did on National Lampoon albums, please use the Comments link below. (It might help refresh your memory to know that Mr. Holder was the Caribbean guy with the deep voice in those 7-UP "uncola" ads back in the seventies and eighties.)

Posted May 15, 2009, 02:25 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)

May 12, 2009

152. I am looking for what issue is the comic (in the back) by Mark Marek about a loser named Pimley. He is such a loser that he can't even guard a fire hydrant (like, who is going to steal it?) and it gets stolen and he ends up throwing himself in front on the D subway train. I am thinking maybe 1983 at least after 1980.

November 1983 issue on page 93. (Thanks, Dudley, for answering this!)

Posted May 12, 2009, 11:19 AM in Answers. | Comments (1)

May 2, 2009

151. I was an annual subscriber to NatLamp in the 1970s, when it was funny. I recall a cartoon of a duck (not Dirty Duck) with a big toothy grin, standing in a bowl of dog food. The duck was waving and saying "jades boyz". Do you have any idea what issue it was in?

It sounds like the cartoon duck mascot National Lampoon used sometimes during its first year, and it was: May 1970 (Greed) issue, p. 80. (Thanks to Steve O. for the answer.)