National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook

[ksoze]

Maybe an acquired taste, but funniest read ever. Anyone still have their original copy? For many, their copy released in 1974 was lost to friends who hoard this parody written by Doug Kenny, P. J. O’Rourke and gang. After losing mine years ago I did get a copy as a gift off ebay. Still is funny after hundreds of reads and still find nuggets hidden in the pages.

Best parody book ever - Amazon evidently sells a reprint which does not have the same look as the original.

http://www.amazon.com/National-Lampoons-1964-School-Yearbook/dp/1590710126

http://collectorgene.com/?p=219

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. National Lampoon was EXTREMELY funny during the early-to-mid-70's.

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"Letters from the Editors" was one of my favorite sections -- and it was
done so subtly that it was awhile before I realized that they were "Letters
FROM the Editors".
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There was a fake full-page ad about trusting your doctor that had someone
bent over for a proctological exam... but with a wary eyeball looking out from
the obvious location.
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We had a tiny watercloset in Germany and that graced the wall in front of the
toilet for the years that we lived there.
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I can't find an example of it online anywhere.
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[OriginalGeek]

2. Ohhh..you said "wary"

My brain transmogrified that to "hairy".


I remember in high school we had a lot of National Lampoon tapes. Cracked us the eff up!

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. True story... as I typed "wary", I thought "hairy".

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[OriginalGeek]

11. I'm going with "Great minds.."

and all that.

[Old and In the Way]

3. I remember reading that particular issue.

National Lampoon was required reading back in the early 70's. I have a copy of one NL from that era (without a cover)...it's amazing to read the ads and the stuff that was "hi-tech" back then....

Thanks for posting!

[Z_I_Peevey]

4. I can still crack myself up

just thinking of the many, varied and hilarious names given to the students in the group photos.

I can remember first seeing the famous If You Don't Buy This Magaine, We'll Kill This Dog cover on the magazine rack at my local convenience store. Thought I'd lose it right there.

[MrScorpio]

5. I've got a copy of the August 1988 True Facts issue right here

Still some funny shit

[LiberalEsto]

6. Absolutely hilarious

I have my original copy, along with the original of the Lampoon's Sunday Newspaper Parody.
Since I graduated from high school in 1969, I could relate to many things in the 1964 yearbook parody.

What's particularly fun is reading the tiny details, like yearbook ads and the newspaper classifieds, and discovering hidden subplots.

[ksoze]

8. The History text book was insanely funny

Alone that few pages is worthy of a separate edition. When combined with the added student markings, it never ceases to get a laugh as they skewered history and the text book prose of that time.

[pokerfan]

7. No, but I still have my copies of Doon and Bored

[Brickbat]

9. We had the Sunday newspaper. Hilarious.

[samsingh]

12. kick

[HughBeaumont]

13. I shrink-wrapped my dad's original copy.

I have the 39th anniversary re-print . . . which is readable, but of rather mediocre quality.

Just like the Sunday Newspaper (a continuation of the 1964 Yearbook characters, 14 years later), these guys really put a lot into this effort with connect-the-dots linkages between characters throughout the book. The shit-obsessed principal, the three cheerleader girls with similar nicknames, the exchange student whose name looks like Scrabble threw up, the unremarkable slacker lead who has to hear every excuse in the book why she can't go to prom with him, etc.

[bif]

14. I still have mine! And the Sunday newspaper parody was bril too!

[ohiosmith]

16. I have mine as well!

[bif]

15. And "The Job of Sex" was funny too!

[rurallib]

17. had the yearbook and the Sunday paper

in a special spot that somehow got lost in our moves.
I would go back and read them about once a year.

[msu2ba]

18. My favorite student name

Charles Ulmer Farley
"Call me Chuck"

[PasadenaTrudy]

19. We had that!

I'd love to look at it again. Old Mad Magazines, too. And Freak Brothers comics.

[trackfan]

20. I remember the tiny, tiny pictures of the underclassmen.

Also, the funny names - one stands out: Janet Upisass, or something like that.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. Maria Theresa Spermatozoa voted "Most Popular"

"Cutest Couple" -- an obviously pregnant girl.