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This week on Litro Lab, we bring you a satyrical poem from no other than resuscitated 18th-century poet Wortley Clutterbuck. Monuments were built in the past to commemorate war and ...
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside…
Linda Fawke pulls back the curtain on the very British tradition of the risqué postcard.
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Some Really Bad Things that Have Happened at Sea – for Context.
Before we even left port I found that both of the drawers underneath my bunk were filled with jars of pickled herring. Later, while I was watching the sun dip ...
Surprised by Joy
So I thought I’d cheer her up, take her mind off things, you know, lighten up the old load, no more ‘n that. I’m good at it, see, making people ...
Litro #116: Humour, Magazine | Archives
Litro #116: Humour
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Letters from the Editor, Litro #116: Humour
Litro #116: Humour – Editor’s Letter
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“All the world’s a joke and man is born clown.”
– from Falstaff, by Arrigo Boito.
It takes two to make a good joke: ...
Extract from Come to the Edge
Cassandra White is not a virtuous widow with her grizzled hair coiled into a bun. She does not wear a series of shapeless outfits in black, and she does not, ...
Radio Cairo
I am in Cairo. I’m meeting a friend of a friend whom I’ve never seen before. I’m supposed to be her professional sound recordist for a radio documentary ...
At the Conference
It had been one of those whirlwind conference romances. Now the very distinguished and very pretty professor from Irvine and I were deciding whether to attend one more afternoon session, ...
After the Farming Museum
So this is what happened on my school trip.
First off, I have to say, what really did my head in was mom coming along for the ride. They wanted volunteers ...
The Steve Show
How Country Club Plaza was able to stay open, nobody really knew. It ranked as one of the central mysteries of the city, along with the hauntings at the California ...
Moose-head and Shrew
Clive Montague never liked me particularly. I certainly never liked him. Loud, boorish, with floppy fair hair, there was—there is—nothing to like. This gives rise to two questions:
First. Why, some ...
Litro #116: Humour, Travel&Lifestyle
Two Funny Extracts from The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures
The Worst Ever Broadway Play
An immediate and sensational flop, Moose Murders by Arthur Bicknell is now widely considered to bethe worst play ever performed on ...
Trapezoids and History
About N/A N/A
Tom Toro is a New Yorker cartoonist and fiction writer living in Berkeley, California. ...
Chaperones, Gossip, and Banned Books by H. M. Bateman
© H. M. Bateman (1887-1970)
© H. M. Bateman (1887-1970)
© H. M. Bateman (1887-1970)
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