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  Gargoyle Humor Magazine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gargoyle Humor Magazine or The Gargoyle is the official student-run humor magazine for the University of Michigan.
The magazine is part of the University's Student Publications, which also includes the campus newspaper, The Michigan Daily, as well as the yearbook, the Michiganensian.
At one time the magazine was sold for prices varying from fifty cents to two dollars, but for the last five years, it has been free, all revenue being generated by advertisements.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gargoyle_Humor_Magazine   (757 words)

  
 Art Journal: War, revolution, and the transformation of the ... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Humor magazines became popular means of disseminating propaganda for both Leftists and Rightists after the German revolution of 1918.
Humor magazines were used for domestic and international propaganda in neutral countries and went through variations in content and style in relation to political events of the times.
However, because the illustration is surrounded by a humorous story that mentions a war propagandist's advocacy of military power rather than peace demonstrations as the best means to end the war,(22) the reader is made aware of the forces that had dictated the content of such illustrations.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:14331393&refid=holomed_1   (5418 words)

  
 ASU Research E-Magazine: Humor, Seriously   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Humor can be a serious thing, and a joke can mean different things to different people in different circumstances.
Humor writers such as Dave Barry and the late Erma Bombeck have parodied sex, marriage, and parenthood in ways that allow readers to laugh at the stereotypes and also see beyond them.
Humor’s effectiveness also depends largely upon its goal; whether it is intended as a tool or as a weapon.
researchmag.asu.edu /articles/humor.html   (1349 words)

  
 HR Magazine: Humor experts jazz up the workplace
Sarcastic humor in which a person is put down is one of the most common forms of humor being misused.
Another barrier to the use of humor in the workplace is the idea that there is a right way to behave at work and that humor, play or laughter aren't appropriate.
The general consensus among humor experts is that for a program to work and produce the desired results, it takes a commitment from HR and management to continue the program over time and to involve all employees.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3495/is_n3_v39/ai_15379395   (1558 words)

  
 New Book Examines Humor in the New Yorker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Humor in the New Yorker style -- irreverent cartoons coupled with witty punch lines -- has left a lasting mark on America's funny bone, the impact of which is explored in a new book on the magazine's early years.
As the magazine was produced by and for young urban professionals, there was a misconception that New Yorker humor welled from a small clique of writers and cartoonists, Lee says.
Though the magazine has since shifted focus to more investigative reporting, coverage of social issues and serious poetry and fiction, Lee says, its sense of humor lives on in its cartoons and writing.
www.ohiou.edu /news/99-00/289.html   (702 words)

  
 Humor @ BarrelOfLaughs.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion.
White once said that "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." However, attempts to do just that have been made, as follow.
The origins of the word "humour" lie in the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids, or humours, controlled human health and emotion.
www.barreloflaughs.com   (3204 words)

  
 Magazine leads to humorous 'Travesty' - Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Texas Ranger was a student humor magazine known for its original humor, its on-campus pie fights with its Texas Student Publications rival, The Daily Texan and the constant battles over content and censorship between its staff, the TSP administration and UT President Frank C. Erwin.
After a union of The Longhorn, another on-campus magazine, and The Texas Ranger formed 1923, a staff was formed and the first issues of the publication hit the stands.
Still the magazine continued to thrive for nearly 40 more years, printing seven issues a year and also becoming a nationally recognized college humor magazine.
www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2000/11/13/Archive/Magazine.Leads.To.Humorous.travesty-700938.shtml   (1150 words)

  
 Magazines/College Humor Magazines
The University of Maryland's premiere humor literary magazine.
A non-profit humor magazine, is published weekly during the fall and spring semesters of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and once during the summer session.
Humor, satire written by high school and college students.
www.ajokes.com /links/Magazines/College_Humor_Magazines   (429 words)

  
 Reno News and Review September 02, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Circulation for humor magazines has declined drastically in the past 30 years, thanks to videogames and the Internet.
Humor magazines are due for resurgence because of the trying times we live in.
There comes a time when we get to be teenagers and become too cool for humor magazines, and then we grow up, go out and get our asses kicked by the world, and come limping back to MAD and CRACKED.
www.newsreview.com /issues/reno/2004-09-02/fifteen.asp   (526 words)

  
 Humor Magazines
Humor magazine featuring satire news from around the world.
Humor magazine with thought-provoking cartoons and funny stories about everyday life and politics.
Humorous site dedicated to moderate satire, parody and lampooning on extreme happenings across the globe.
www.world-newspapers.com /humor.html   (256 words)

  
 Humor magazine caters to military   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The magazine will be sold through installation exchanges or at newsstands in areas with military installations.
The magazine's article contributors are wide and varied, not unlike the people whom it targets.
The magazine is not only betting service members will pay the $3.50 newsstand price, it believes they will rally around a community of common tastes.
www.dcmilitary.com /army/pentagram/8_42/local_news/25959-1.html   (630 words)

  
 Open Directory - Recreation: Humor: Magazines and E-zines: College and University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Maryland Cow Nipple - The University of Maryland's premiere humor literary magazine.
The MQ - Humor publication of John Muir College at the University of California, San Diego.
Voo Doo Magazine - The MIT journal of rational disco and campus intercourse.
dmoz.org /Recreation/Humor/Magazines_and_E-zines/College_and_University   (458 words)

  
 Howard U. Works in Silence on Humor Magazine
The first-ever fl humor magazine is being developed in the School of Communications, but that doesn't mean anyone wants to talk about it.
Another faculty member said Dates, who's spearheading the project, is spread too thin, what with the launch of a new center for race and media, fund-raising for a floundering school newspaper that trains students and a drive to upgrade the radio, TV and film department.
A fl humor magazine could help white producers realize that fl characters can be funny without stereotypes, Williams said.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/WPcap/1999-10/27/029r-102799-idx.html   (1187 words)

  
 ON A WING AND A MAER, RADAR MAGAZINE PUTS OUT AN UNDERHYPED SECOND ISSUE.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The first issue of Radar magazine generated so much press, the magazine itself was almost besides the point.
Maer Roshan: The biggest challenge for any new magazine is getting anybody to notice it, so the early publicity we received was really helpful, especially as an indie venture up against magazines like Lifetime, which launched on the same day we did backed by a million-dollar promotional push.
The first issue of any magazine is a work in progress, but everything in Radar's debut was so relentlessly scrutinized and critiqued and debated and analyzed that some people seemed to forget we were a start-up.
www.blacktable.com /leitch030611.htm   (2198 words)

  
 The New Yorker: Fact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A key to college humor, the four have realized, is that students like to think they belong to a small in-crowd that understands the joke, while the public at large remains clueless.
Another familiar trope of contemporary college humor is a hand gesture known as the shocker, in which the ring finger of the hand is held down by the thumb while the remaining three fingers stay rigid.
College humor suffered a decline in currency in the nineteen-sixties and the first half of the nineteen-seventies, when campus concerns such as civil rights and the draft proved impossible to translate into the magazines’ typical vernacular of antic japery.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content?050124fa_fact2   (2641 words)

  
 GLAD-The Christian Humor Magazine
Humor in the Bible is an oxymoron for many Christians.
Humor in the bible, Christian cartoons and Christian comic books are for Christian with a sense of humor.
GLAD is a magazine about Christian humor and the humor in the Bible.
www.wordcentered.com /glad.html   (106 words)

  
 DesMoinesRegister.com
Drake University President David Maxwell has publicly censured the latest issue of DUIN, the campus humor magazine, for what he said is a disregard of the line between humor and the harmful effects of demeaning and discriminatory speech.
He acknowledged that, while the magazine is protected by the First Amendment, the Drake University Statement of Principles, adopted in 1992, declares an abhorrence to speech that demeans, humiliates or expresses hatred toward members of the university community.
When the magazine printed last fall, fraternity members tore out the pages after their Greek letters were published within a satirical article.
desmoinesregister.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050505/NEWS02/505050419/1001/RSS01   (361 words)

  
 Magazines:Humor
Bear Essential - A semiannual magazine published by Orlo, The Bear Essential is a mixture of humor and irreverent foolery, subtle advocacy and straight-ahead news and information.
Friday Humor Magazine - illustrates current affairs through the lenses of the world's most widely published cartoonists, adding just enough provocative commentary to put incisive satirical humor in perspective.
Texas Chainsaw Magazine, The - an electronic 'zine devoted to the sharper of the humors: satire, sarcasm and cynical commentary.
www.windy-city.com /onlinemags/magazine/humor.html   (1781 words)

  
 Dead-Frog.com - A Comedy Blog: Humor Magazine Archives
If you know what will make you plunk down $5 at the newsstand for the humor magazine, you should definitely post on their message board.
An unfortunate harbinger of the downfall of both of those previous humor giants was a redesign, usually indicating that the editors and writers are bored or confused, uncertain of what was the magazine's original appeal.
The tweak on publishing a parody with the permission of Premiere is a little unfair, since the parody is going to newsstands rather than the bookstore humor section.
www.dead-frog.com /archives/humor_magazine/index.php   (1298 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Matherite Starts Humor Magazine
Tony's Humor Magazine, a house publication open to submissions from Mather House residents, debuted last Tuesday.
Anthony M. Zacharek '95, the founder, said he would like the magazine to be a relaxed and fun experience for both writers and readers.
Several Mather residents who were vital to the realization of Zacharek's dream said they believe he magazine is an important contribution to the House.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=178026   (435 words)

  
 The Hollywood Blot, A College Humor Lampoon Magazine of Celebrity Gossip & Twisted Humor.
The site continues to maintain that it is the number one entertainment satire on the web despite any evidence you may have to the contrary.
The second part is devoted to humorous but non-satirical features -- "At the Matinee," movie reviews consisting of one full-length movie review and several capsule reviews of new releases; and"Fine Print," an anthology of essays on popular culture, media, and entertainment.
And because the site is meant to be an alternative to entertainment sites lacking candor, humor and originality, humor sites lacking edginess and creativity, and organic food sites lacking both.
www.theblot.com /about_us.php   (664 words)

  
 Punch.co.uk
Welcome to the website of Punch magazine and Punch Cartoon Library, the world’s best and largest repository of cartoon art available for licensing.
Punch, the magazine of humour and satire, ran from 1841 until its closure in 2002.
A very British institution with an international reputation for its witty and irreverent take on the world, it published the work of some of the greatest comic writers (Thackeray, P G Wodehouse and P J O’Rourke among others) and gave us the cartoon as we know it today.
www.punch.co.uk   (147 words)

  
 Humor Came Her
His patient was 55 years old, single, and without health insurance since her abrupt departure four years earlier from The New Yorker, where she'd been an influential editor and one of the magazine's more idiosyncratic writers.
Geng began working for The New Yorker in 1976, when the magazine still valiantly published epic monographs about orange crops, and the office still felt like a dysfunctional faculty lounge, with William Shawn as the presiding dean.
Shawn's confidence in them was tantamount to tenure at a university, allowing, in Geng's case, a kind of academic jauntiness to bloom during an era when smart-ass humor otherwise prevailed.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/features/858   (941 words)

  
 Open Directory - Recreation: Humor: Magazines and E-zines: E-zines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Eightball Magazine - An adult humor magazine featuring a mixture of satirical rants, news, celebrity gossip, an idiots gallery, and fake advertisements.
Motel Magazine - Features science, travel, humor, movie reviews, cooking and a bookstore for people who are made mostly of water.
Opium - A literary zine with a sense of humor.
dmoz.org /Recreation/Humor/Magazines_and_E-zines/E-zines   (2096 words)

  
 Go-Ezines Site Map Sitemap
An adult humor magazine featuring a mixture of satirical rants, news, celebrity gossip, an idiots gallery, and fake advertisements.
An irreverent and sometimes humorous commentary on life, relationships and society in general.
A humorous weekly look at people, places and things that can't possibly be made up.
www.go-ezines.com /sitemap-12.html   (608 words)

  
 The Journal of Irreproducible Results
The Journal of Irreproducible Results (the science humor magazine) invites entries in its contest for "The Funniest Graph".
Winners will be featured in the magazine, anthologies, and www.jir.com, and receive a 3-year subscription plus a JIR anthology.
I was assistant editor of Sky and Telescope magazine, and Science Editor of AltaVista.com.
www.jir.com   (542 words)

  
 Mamacita(TM): Online Women's Humor Magazine Launches (MamacitaOnline.com)
It's a humor, news and entertainment magazine for "Women Who Can't Be Fooled." Mamacita(TM) fills the gaping hole in women's media: humor.
For online humor, men have "The Onion." Now women have Mamacita(TM), their own online humor outlet.
She wanted to create a place where women could laugh, relax and let the brain waves tingle, a place without a self-improvement agenda, a place sometimes dealing with serious issues but not requiring them to be worn on the sleeve.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-21-2005/0003927762&EDATE=   (417 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Humor Magazine Will Make Its Grand Debut
Demon is a new humor magazine that features an "inclusive" submissions and printing policy according to the magazine's president, Sebastian Conley '96.
Friedman also mentioned that the new magazine had broken even financially through advertising and a $500 grant from the Undergraduate Council.
The Lampoon is a semi-secret Bow St. social organization that occasionally publishes its own so-called humor magazine.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=222037   (425 words)

  
 Psychology Humor
Often described as a sort of MAD Magazine of science, AIR is a print magazine.
Psychology humor and satire from AssessmentPsychology.com, featuring "On the Psychologist's Couch" by Gunborg Palme and Dr. Frank Froman's "Sunday Ramblings" on the practice of psychology.
The Journal of Polymorphous Perversity is an irreverent humor magazine that lampoons psychology, psychiatry, mental health, medicine, and journals with wacky satires and parodies.
www.psychology.org /links/Resources/Humor   (386 words)

  
 Sick Twisted Humor Magazine - check out The Newz.com for jokes and more
The Newz is your Twisted Humor connection to the net.
Crowe is best known for his film roles in A Beautiful Mind, as John Nash, the mathematical genius struggling with schizophrenia; and Gladiator, where he dressed up in a tight leather outfit and bitch-slapped a bunch of surly men for about two hours and fifteen minutes.
Which means we won't see the humor if you steal from us.
www.thenewz.com   (856 words)

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