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May 26, 2010
237. I read--and enjoyed--a Nat Lampoon story (back in the 1980s, but it might have been in an old issue) about A Sporting Wager at the Middle Management Club... or was it a Gentleman's Wager? It was about traveling around the world--a take off on the old idea of Around the World In Eighty Days--only today with air travel and so on it was not the transport but the borders that were the challenge. So one of the characters is charged with traveling around the world with lots of potential contraband in his luggage: a baby kangaroo, a Douglass fir tree, men's magazines, prescription drugs, etc. Hilarity ensues and so on... Does that ring a bell? Am I going mad?
The info you provided made it pretty easy to find when I did a text search of the National Lampoon Complete DVD-ROM: It was "A Sporting Wager at the Middle Management Club" by Ted Mann from the May 1981 (Naked Ambition) issue.
(Coincidentally enough, this story had a character with the name "S.W. Goatlips IV", which just came up in the question before last, #235.)
Posted May 26, 2010, 07:31 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
236. I've been dying to get my hands on Tod Carroll's story "I Fucked Olga Korbut". Would you know what issue it was in?
The piece was called "Olga Korbut Had My Baby" and it appeared in the November 1980 (Thanksgiving) issue.
Posted May 26, 2010, 06:28 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
235. I am looking for a saying from a letter sent in by Viscount H. Goatlips III, it started something like this: “Vengeance (revenge?) lends a rationale of chancery justice…” I am not sure about the above but would love to get the original version. It would have come from the late '70s
The text is from the editorial in the April 1980 (Vengeance) issue. There's no reference to "Viscount H. Goatlips" in that article, but there is a tiny reference to "Mr. S. W. Goatlips" in a fake ad in that same issue. However, the issue after that, the May 1976 (Sex Roles) issue, has a parody of a Victorian sex manual called "Sexual Health" by a "Dr. Viscount H. Goatlips II". I think you've somehow combined the two in your memory.
By the way, to dig this stuff up, I did a text search of the National Lampoon Complete DVD, and the name "Goatlips" appears in several issues in the early Eighties. I guess it was a favorite "funny name" of the editors around that time.
Posted May 26, 2010, 06:18 PM in Answers. | Comments (1)
234. I recall an ad for a poster that was available from NL, or at least I think it was NL, and it had a beautiful young woman, wearing a skimpy cheerleaders outfit, and holding a cherry, and I believe the caption was..."Would you like my cherry"...or something to that effect. Do you know what issues those posters were available in? Or where I might find one of those posters?
It sounds a lot like the October 1974 (Pubescence) issue cover, but there wasn't any caption on that and they never sold it as a poster, as far as I know. Correction: There was a poster of the cover issued in 1978. See the comments for more info. (Tip o' the hat to The Lampoon Oracle.)
Posted May 26, 2010, 05:17 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
233. I'm trying to find a feature that I think appeared in "The Gentleman's Bathroom Companion II" but which I'm assuming had appeared in an earlier National Lampoon issue. It was a parody of folk/primitive/colonial American art, with the example that stands out in my memory being a photo of a needlework sampler (the kind that usually say "Home Sweet Home," etc) reading "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, I'll Fuck Anyone In This Goddamn Bore-Ass Town" or something along those lines. Do you know what the title of the piece was/which issue it initially appeared in?
It was called "Early American Fuck Art" and first appeared in the August 1976 (Compulsory Summer Sex) issue. By the looks of it, I think it may have been done for the 199th Birthday Book, but maybe there wasn't room for it or something.
Posted May 26, 2010, 05:08 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
232. I’m looking for an image of the S. Gross cartoon of a very dour ice cream vendor standing at his cart. A sign on the cart says “Adolph’s One Flavor: take it or leave it!” Can’t seem to find this online. Maybe I’m the only one who remembers it as funny.
Carol comes through again: "It ain't Sam, it's Charlie! That is, it's Rodrigues, not Gross. The fascistic icecream man appears in 'Entrepreneurs' by Rodrigues, in the Dec. '75 (Money) issue. It was reprinted in Best Of #7."
Posted May 26, 2010, 01:17 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
231. There was a feature (in an issue that parodied niche magazines) about a magazine for people named Fred. (The nomenclature on a T-shirt ad in this piece was "Better Fred Than Dead"). Can you please tell me what issue this was in?
Carol does it again: "A book titled 'The Eighties; A Look Back' was published in 1979 by a whole lot of artists and writers, mostly associated with the 'Poon. In the middle of this tome are several short magazine parodies, and one of them is 'Fred'. The author's name is Jeremy Wolff." I knew I'd seen it somewhere, but not in National Lampoon.
Posted May 26, 2010, 01:15 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
230. Don't know if this was in National Lampoon but I remember reading a strip about "Hoots & Toots" in a humor magazine. They were a couple from another planet who had been transported to our planet through a radio. The one line I remember is when they came to earth one said to the other "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" and the radio repair guy says "Yeah you don't sound anything like Kansas." I think he then became their agent because they were musicians. Ring any bells?
If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted May 26, 2010, 01:11 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
229. I'm looking for a humpback whale poem that appeared in the magazine: "I'm a whale, I'm a whale, and I swim with a humpback motion, and I can spend all day and night on the bottom of the ocean."
It appeared in the January 1974 (Animals) issue in "The Humpback Whale Official Songbook" by Sean Kelly and Brian McConnachie. (Thanks to Dell for answering this.)
Posted May 26, 2010, 01:09 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
228. I'm looking for an article called something like "Ten risky things to do with your penis."
It was "Ten Risky Things To Do With Your Cock" is part of 'John & Gerry's Potpourri of Danger, Risk, and Daring-Do' in the March '79 (Chance) issue. More info in the Comments link. (Tip of the hat to Carol for coming through with the answer once again.)
Posted May 26, 2010, 01:06 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
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Posted May 26, 2010, 12:54 PM in News.
227. Someone told me about National Lampoon running an advertisement selling a Kent State Playset that came with 10 plastic national guardsmen shooting, 10 guardsmen running, 4 dead students, 1 student kneeling, a box that doubles as an ROTC building etc. What issue was this in?
It was a fake ad in the comic book parody "G. Gordon Liddy, Agent of C.R.E.E.P." from the October 1973 (Banana) issue. (Thanks to Dell for answering this.)
Posted May 26, 2010, 12:49 PM in Answers. | Comments (1)