Makes me question the New Yorker editor.  Why would insulting the
daughters be considered clever or funny.  I wonder how old the writer is.
Arianne Laidlaw
Sacramento


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Gary Plotkin <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> So glad to hear I'm not the only one who did not find it funny. I don't
> even understand it. Can someone explain what the joke is supposed to be?
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Heather Morgan <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
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> > I did NOT think was funny, but rather weird. The first quote is=20
> > certainly a Twain - the rest=C2=A0!!!!!!
> > =C2=A0
> > =C2=A0Heather.
> >
> > =C2=A0On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 03:32 PM, Arianne wrote:
> > =C2=A0
> > =C2=A0> The first quote is his, I believe.
> > >
> > > I'll be interested in hearing whether anyone thought this was funny.
> > > I didn't!
> > >
> > > Arianne Laidlaw
> > > Sacramento
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:09 PM, John H. Muller <
> > > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>=20
> > >>
> >
> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/09/amazing-previously-=
> > unpublished-mark-twain-quotes.html
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> John Muller
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> Post=20
> > >> DC
> > >> *Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C: The Lion of
> > >> Anacostia<
> > >>=20
> > >>
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Frederick-Douglass-Washington-D-c-Anacostia/dp/160=
> >
> >
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> > >> * [The History Press, 2012] - Winner of 2013 DC
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> > >> Forthcoming: "Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a=20
> > >> Capital
> > >> Correspondent" [The History Press, October 29, 2013]
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> > > Arianne Laidlaw A '58
> > >
> >
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