Old Column mentioning Oregonian

Mickey Reasoner

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Jun 16, 1992, 9:17:55 PM6/16/92

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Some time ago, Dave Barry wrote about "beano" in one of his columns. While
the column was pretty tame, the Portland Oregonian and some other newspaper
censored it. This upset Dave and he wrote another very funny column in
which he substituted Portland Oregonian and the other newspaper's name for
certain portions of a person's anatomy.

Well, I used to enjoy Dave's column before I moved to the Portland Area.
But, now my "new" newspaper, the Portland Oregonian doesn't carry Dave's
column (you can guess why).

Anyway, does anyone know how I can get a reprint of the column in which
Dave made fun of the Oregonian? I'd like to post it at work since my
coworkers who read the Oregonian obviously didn't get a chance to read it.

Thanks,

Michael Reasoner
mic...@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com

Dan Tilque

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Jun 17, 1992, 2:39:46 AM6/17/92

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I tried emailing this, but both attempts bounced.

mickeyr@hpmcaa (Mickey Reasoner) writes:
>
>Well, I used to enjoy Dave's column before I moved to the Portland Area.
>But, now my "new" newspaper, the Portland Oregonian doesn't carry Dave's
>column (you can guess why).
>
>Anyway, does anyone know how I can get a reprint of the column in which
>Dave made fun of the Oregonian? I'd like to post it at work since my
>coworkers who read the Oregonian obviously didn't get a chance to read it.

First of all, the Oregonian does carry Dave's column. It's in the Sunday
paper in the Northwest Living II section. Dave's column is also in the
This Week newspaper which is free and you should be able to get it in
McMinnville.

However, the Oregonian didn't print the one that makes fun of the Big O
because (according to them) it was tasteless and obscene. I have a copy
of that column which I got out of This Week. I don't know how I'd get a
xerox of it to you, though. I work up in Aloha.

---
Dan Tilque -- da...@logos.WR.TEK.COM

"[Circumcision] is a common medical procedure that involves -- and
here, in the interests of tastefulness, I am going to use code names --
taking hold of a guy's Oregonian and snipping his Post-Dispatch right
off." -- Dave Barry

Randal L. Schwartz

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Jun 17, 1992, 11:29:36 AM6/17/92

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In article <10...@wrgate.wr.tek.com> da...@logos.wr.tek.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
First of all, the Oregonian does carry Dave's column. It's in the Sunday
paper in the Northwest Living II section. Dave's column is also in the
This Week newspaper which is free and you should be able to get it in
McMinnville.

However, the Oregonian didn't print the one that makes fun of the Big O
because (according to them) it was tasteless and obscene. I have a copy
of that column which I got out of This Week. I don't know how I'd get a
xerox of it to you, though. I work up in Aloha.

Also, the Oregonian *censors* the contents of the column, because we
apparently (as adults.... well, most of us) can be harmed by reading
bad words in a newspaper. "This Week" censors it less, but there are
still occasional differences between the oroginal column at what
appears in either This Week or "the big O".

The Big O's censoring blows some of the setups for the jokes
sometimes, but I can usually reverse-engineer what the setup was,
confirming it two days later when "This Week" publishes the less
bastardized version.

relevant to afb readers: do other papers "clean up" his words as well?
Or is this strictly a prudish local tradition? (As in, why would the
Big O carry Barry, knowing full well how he writes, and then delete
some of his funnier lines?)

Just another Barry reader,
--
Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095
mer...@reed.edu (guest account) mer...@ora.com (better for permanent record)
cute quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon -- home of the California Raisins!"

Dan Harkless

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Jun 17, 1992, 12:13:16 PM6/17/92

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In article <MERLYN.92J...@romulus.reed.edu> mer...@romulus.reed.edu (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>
>The Big O's censoring blows some of the setups for the jokes
>sometimes, but I can usually reverse-engineer what the setup was,
>confirming it two days later when "This Week" publishes the less
>bastardized version.
>
>relevant to afb readers: do other papers "clean up" his words as well?
>Or is this strictly a prudish local tradition? (As in, why would the
>Big O carry Barry, knowing full well how he writes, and then delete
>some of his funnier lines?)

They do indeed. The Orange County Register has been pretty good about
it recently, but that hilarious toilet snake article was obviously chopped.
Scumbags... I'd like to see the full version.

Mickey Reasoner

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Jun 17, 1992, 7:09:12 PM6/17/92

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Thanks for the responses. I'll examine next Sunday's Living section more
carefully!