Author Topic: The new New Yorker cover for the week...holy crap! Poe reference...  (Read 6357 times)

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Re: The new New Yorker cover for the week...holy crap! Poe reference...
« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2008, 09:43:08 PM »
The Masque of the Red Death. Nice!




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Re: The new New Yorker cover for the week...holy crap! Poe reference...
« Reply #26 on: October 16, 2008, 10:37:50 PM »
"Up there with Kipling's "If"..."

NOW you're talking!
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Re: The new New Yorker cover for the week...holy crap! Poe reference...
« Reply #27 on: October 16, 2008, 10:59:26 PM »
  There's your connection. A three-linker, from Poe to Phantom of the Opera to the New Yorker

Mrs. Tactical pants got both connections.  English major, you know.  And she likes musicals.
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Re: The new New Yorker cover for the week...holy crap! Poe reference...
« Reply #28 on: October 17, 2008, 11:25:30 AM »
You are SO boxing out of your weight class...  :laugh:
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