is this the first time the phrase 'airborne scrotum' has appeared in the new york times?

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My money says yes.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link

(golly, it's even the first time the phrase "airborne scrotum" has appeared on Google)

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link

what about the phrase "cryptic aperçu"?

miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Kick 'im in the cryptics!

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm more frightened by the fact that the movie marks a reunion between Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari! Does Santa dress in drag?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

seven years pass...
two years pass...

http://time.com/105004/at-the-new-york-times-its-all-in-the-family/

When Punch assumed the top job in 1963, the senior nonfamily executive was Amory Bradford, a tall and intimidating man who had long bullied Punch and dismissed him as a hapless nitwit. Punch was, in fact, an ex-Marine who became a great publisher responsible for things like bringing to light the Pentagon Papers, but in those days he wandered the corridors as a junior executive with little to do.

Punch’s brother-in-law Orvil Dryfoos was the family member at the top, and when he died suddenly of a heart attack, there was a succession crisis. Should the family turn to the untried Punch? Or should it — as Amory assumed it would — turn to him?

At the New York Times, blood trumps. But Punch refused to take the job of publisher unless it was understood that his first act would be to fire Amory. He promptly did so, to Amory’s utter shock and fury. Three decades later, an octogenarian Amory was working as a nude massage therapist on an island off the coast of South Carolina, and was still furious.

Loved this bit.

polyphonic, Monday, 19 May 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link

ten months pass...

is this the first time '¯\_(ツ)_/¯' has appeared in the new york times?

http://i.imgur.com/v2hPbxQ.png

, Friday, 10 April 2015 13:01 (nine years ago) link

four years pass...

NY Times put an unexpurgated "I'm fucked" on page one today. A landmark.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 April 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link


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