{"id":260176,"date":"2008-02-08T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/02\/08\/too-funny-not-to-post\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:35","slug":"too-funny-not-to-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/02\/08\/too-funny-not-to-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Funny Not to Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on the Steve Jobs quote I posted about a few days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/thedizzies.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/table-talk-of-parkus-grammaticus-for_06.html\">Ed Park<\/a> posted this hilarious <i>Onion<\/i> piece that you should definitely read.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"onion_embed headline\"><a class=\"img\" target=\"theonion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/area_eccentric_reads_entire_book?utm_source=Distributed&#038;utm_medium=Embedded%2BHTML&#038;utm_campaign=Widgets\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/files\/images\/eccentric.frontpage_thumbnail_small.jpg\" alt=\"Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a target=\"theonion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content?utm_source=Distributed&#038;utm_medium=Embedded%2BHTML&#038;utm_campaign=Widgets\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/themes\/onion\/assets\/logos\/onion_super_tiny.png\" width=\"92\" height=\"12\" alt=\"The Onion\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:default!important;line-height:default!important;\"><a target=\"theonion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/area_eccentric_reads_entire_book?utm_source=Distributed&#038;utm_medium=Embedded%2BHTML&#038;utm_campaign=Widgets\" >Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"embed_teaser\"><span class=\"caps\">GREENWOOD<\/span>,IN&#8212;&quot;Instead of spending hours on YouTube every night, Mr. Meyer, unlike most healthy males, looks to books for gratification,&quot; said one psychologist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">.onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom: 1;}.onion_embed img {border: 0 !important;}.onion_embed a {display: inline;}.onion_embed a.img {float: left !important;margin: 0 5px 0 0 !important;width: 66px;display: block;overflow: hidden !important;}.onion_embed a.img img {border: 1px solid #222 !important;;width: 64px;;padding: 0 !important;;}.onion_embed h2 {line-height: 2px;;clear: none;;margin: 0 !important;padding: 0 !important;}.onion_embed h3 {line-height: 16px;font: bold 16px arial, sans-serif !important;margin: 3px 0 0 0 !important;padding: 0 !important;}.onion_embed h3 a {line-height: 16px !important;;color: rgb(0, 51, 102) !important;font: bold 16px arial, sans-serif !important;text-decoration: none !important;display: inline !important;;float: none !important;;text-transform: capitalize !important;}.onion_embed h3 a:hover {text-decoration: underline !important;color: rgb(204, 51, 51) !important;}.onion_embed p {color: #000 !important;;font: normal 11px\/ 11px arial, sans-serif !important;;margin: 2px 0 0 0 !important;;padding: 0 !important;}.onion_embed a {display: inline !important;;float: none !important;}<\/style>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/statistics.theonion.com\/b\/ss\/theonionprod\/1\/H.6--NS\/1234567?pe=lnk_d&#038;pev2=Area%20Eccentric%20Reads%20Entire%20Book&#038;pev1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Fnews%2Farea_eccentric_reads_entire_book%3Futm_source%3DDistributed%26utm_medium%3DEmbedded%252BHTML%26utm_campaign%3DWidgets\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"display:none;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favorite bit: &#8220;Meyer, who never once jumped ahead to see what would happen and avoided skimming large passages of text in search of pictures, first began his oddball feat a week ago. Three days later, the eccentric Midwesterner was still at it, completing chapter after chapter, seemingly of his own free will.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on the Steve Jobs quote I posted about a few days ago, Ed Park posted this hilarious Onion piece that you should definitely read. Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book GREENWOOD,IN&#8212;&quot;Instead of spending hours on YouTube every night, Mr. Meyer, unlike most healthy males, looks to books for gratification,&quot; said one psychologist. 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