TNY weekend reader: energy efficiency
(image: carolita johnson)
The best line in the magazine this week,
He screams (BB pellet) with joy.
is in Jack Handey’s “My Nature Documentary.”
Although,
Alexander reports that Auberon always defended corporal punishment in schools, or at least in Catholic schools, where, he argued, it relieved the monks of the strains of celibacy. A beating, he said, was “a small sacrifice for a boy and a great treat for a monk.â€
is not bad either. (“Waugh stories,” by Joan Acocella)
But my pick of the issue is the cover, “Bright Idea,” by Staake.
June 30th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
The bit about the monk did make me crack a smile.
But I couldn’t read all the way through My Nature Documentary. Which is odd, because I’m interested in nature documentaries and making fun of them and all that.
June 30th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I found My Nature Documentary to be a bit of a bumpy read myself, but did manage to trip over that nugget.