{"id":17,"date":"2005-12-19T21:29:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2005\/12\/19\/the-insult-that-made-a-lunch-out-of-m"},"modified":"2005-12-19T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T01:29:23","slug":"the-insult-that-made-a-lunch-out-of-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2005\/12\/19\/the-insult-that-made-a-lunch-out-of-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"The Insult That Made a Lunch out of Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a56'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;\">&nbsp; I&#8217;m waiting with several<br \/>\nother people to be transported to parts unknown. A van&nbsp; pulls up<br \/>\nwith only the driver inside and I wonder for a moment how he can hope<br \/>\nto accommodate all of us who are waiting in that modest sized&nbsp;<br \/>\nvehicle. But then cubic units, each large enough to hold a person,<br \/>\nbegin to fold out of the van until the whole assemblage is the size of<br \/>\na large truck and we begin to pile in, each passenger encased in his<br \/>\nown unit and head off to parts unknown.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier;\">&nbsp; Then I arrive at a small<br \/>\napartment to interview a young (late teens) Oriental girl. However,<br \/>\nthere is a constant flow of heavy traffic on the street outside and the<br \/>\ndin makes it difficult to speak. Since I can&#8217;t converse, I look for<br \/>\nsomething to occupy my attention and notice a comic book I then pick<br \/>\nup. On the back cover I find an updated version of the advertisement<br \/>\nthat used to grace the back covers in my childhood, &#8220;The insult that<br \/>\nmade a man out of Mac.&#8221; In this version, the threat that shadows the<br \/>\nbeach is no longer an aggressive beach bum. Rather, it shows a shark<br \/>\nattempting to devour the beachgoer. But the beachgoer has been using<br \/>\nCharles Atlas&#8217; system, so he strains his mighty thews against the roof<br \/>\nof the shark&#8217;s mouth and keeps it from closing. For some reason, this<br \/>\nmakes me laugh so hard that I wake up. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m waiting with several other people to be transported to parts unknown. A van&nbsp; pulls up with only the driver inside and I wonder for a moment how he can hope to accommodate all of us who are waiting in that modest sized&nbsp; vehicle. But then cubic units, each large enough to hold a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}