Vanity Fair, mostly known as "Proof James Wolcott Has A Goat Picture Of The Vanity Fair Board Of Directors," has produced a fake Weekly Standard cover flap that proves mainly that they can match fonts. It sure doesn't look very funny:
OK, Fine, We Admit It: The Iraq War Was A Mistake
And George W. Bush Is So Stupid It Scares Even Us
Brit Hume
50 things Michael Moore was right about
. . .
Fred Barnes
on the joys of not wearing pants
Hoo, boy, somebody stop them! Seriously, guys, this kind of fold-over wasn't funny when I was a kid reading Mad.
Naturally, Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder squirms with delight over it:
The October Vanity Fair has an excellent, very SPY-like prank to anger and befuddle readers of the buffoonishly hawkish Weekly Standard. Just cut out the fake cover flap and glue it onto a newsstand copy of the Weekly Standard, then step back to observe the blood vessels burst on the foreheads of the neocons who see it.
[Checking myself for aneurysms... nothing. Lame attempts at humor don't have much impact on my blood pressure.]
Hell, I can do that for VF, just funnier (although I'll leave the font-matching to somebody else):
First Peek: Airbrushed Pregnant Ann Coulter Naked!Posted by Chris at September 7, 2006 08:56 PM
GEORGE W. BUSH: How Come This Mental Defective Keeps Outmaneuvering Us?
Human-Like Creatures Discovered In American Interior
Apparently These Things Live In The Vast Wasteland Between The Coasts
Almost Like Us Except For Primitive Supernatural Beliefs
JAMES WOLCOTT Sneers At Everything Outside Manhattan
Hi. I dismissively accused the poster of having no sense of humor. And I didn't leave real contact information, so there's no conclusive way for me to deny that I like taking gerbils up the butt.
Now THAT'S funny.
Posted by: Joseph at September 10, 2006 04:29 AM