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FUNNY WOMEN #84: An Open Letter to Thomas the Tank Engine

  • JJ Keith
  • September 11, 2012
Let me be blunt: you’re a train with human attributes. Who are your parents? From what monstrous act were you conceived?
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FUNNY WOMEN #83: Rejection Letter

  • Alena Dillon
  • July 10, 2012
Certainly you are aware that Haughty is the largest magazine in the world, so we must assume that your submission was a mistake.
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FUNNY WOMEN #82: Apply Your Feelings of Professional Inadequacy to a Really Adorable Birthday Cake

  • Amy Butcher
  • July 3, 2012
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FUNNY WOMEN #81: xo, The Intern’s Mom

  • Courtney Zoffness
  • June 26, 2012
Gary’s excited to start his week-long internship at Lanson Corp tomorrow! We can’t thank you enough for this opportunity—and for the doors it will open after college.
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Existential Ménage-à-Trois

  • Charley Locke
  • June 13, 2012
Andy Martin, author of The Boxer and the Goalkeeper, writes about the woman called Wanda who ended the “bromance” between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. “Camus was the new kid on the…
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FUNNY WOMEN #80: My Future Author Bios, from Least to Most Likely

  • Rupinder Gill
  • June 12, 2012
This is Rupinder Gill’s 85th self-published book. She recently moved back in with her parents.
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FUNNY WOMEN #79: Books Outselling Mine in the Amazon Kindle Sales Rank

  • Caitlin Horrocks
  • June 5, 2012
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FUNNY WOMEN #78: Ambivalent Affirmations

  • Janine Brito
  • May 22, 2012
Hey ladyfriend, are you going through a breakup? Is your job really hard right now? Is your life nothing more than all-consuming darkness and regret?
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Ye Olde Fart Jokes

  • Graham Todd
  • May 10, 2012
Meanwhile in England, a troupe of 24 modern day pilgrims re-enacted Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, walking the 1637 pilgrimage route and raising money for the National Literacy Trust. The group stopped…
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FUNNY WOMEN #77: Penal Codes

  • Janine Brito, Elissa Bassist, and Jewelie
  • March 20, 2012
Following the trend of female lawmakers submitting bills to regulate men’s health, we decided to do the same. We are three straight, gay, single, married, white, Cuban, non-practicing Jewish women, which…
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FUNNY WOMEN #76: A Person with Severe Social Anxiety Imagines What Will Happen If Seen Tripping on a Sidewalk

  • Rebecca ONeal
  • March 13, 2012
You! Rebecca Victoria O’Neal! I’ve just seen you trip on the sidewalk, confirming a long-held suspicion that you are a Bad Person with Whom I’d Never Hang Out.
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FUNNY WOMEN #75: Behind Every Great Man

  • Kathleen Harris
  • March 6, 2012
To the left is a copy of Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule, as found in a book. Below is what I imagine Mrs. Franklin’s daily schedule looked like.
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