"It’s a birfday ’at on a cactus-needles where yer wants ears."

[tesseract_5]

One of the pleasures of reading The New Yorker is the "Shouts and Murmers" humor essay in each issue. Steve Martin, Woody Allen, Andy Borowitz and other more famous comedic writers contribute, but the better ones are by authors I'm not as familiar with. Often the writer will riff off of a quote from a news article. This week's is a winner with my

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[evareia]

That man packed a full bag of groceries, dinnee?

That is the funniest thing I've read all week.

[tesseract_5]

hee! I remember in high school, a bunch of the giggly girls going on an on about the male ballet dancers' "pear" after watching a video of a ballet performance.

[evareia]

When I was in middle school (maybe even late elementary school) we had a live ballet demonstration. I'm sure there were some comments about the male dancers "pear", but I definitely recall comments about how the male dancer kept looking up the female dancer's skirt during lifts. ;D

[tesseract_5]

Kids are SO suspicious, assigning the most salascious interpretation. :)