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frazzled

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1. My favorite of all time

Reply to Richardo (Original post)

Thu Apr 26, 2012, 10:16 PM

Apr 2012

If you can't read it (it's old, from 1989, and this is a crappy jpg), it says:

1. Call Bank

2. Dry Cleaner

3. Forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

4. Call mom.

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Why I love The New Yorker Part LXXVII: [View all] Richardo Apr 2012 OP

My favorite of all time frazzled Apr 2012 #1

How many that might see your post will actually know what the "smithy" really means? A HERETIC I AM Apr 2012 #2

I do! I do! nolabear Apr 2012 #3

I think anyone who grew up in Indiana and had to memorize frazzled Apr 2012 #4

"Honestly, you think people have never heard of blacksmiths or a smithy" A HERETIC I AM Apr 2012 #6

I think you underestimate our schools frazzled Apr 2012 #7

New Yorker Toons burrowowl Apr 2012 #5