# The National Lampoon's Highschool Yearbook **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-national-lampoons-highschool-yearbook/534778 "2010-04-02T21:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-national-lampoons-highschool-yearbook/534778/1 "2010-04-02T21:51:25Z")
I have the reprint version of NL’s “1964 Highschool Yearbook”-which details the goings on in the Estes Kefauver HS, of Dacron, Ohio. I still find it funny…but I recall that NL did an earlier parody…several years before the “1964” parody. Is thsi version available on-line? I have looked for it on ebay, with no luck. Anyway, who owns the rights to the old NL magazine? I’d like to buy some of the issues. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-national-lampoons-highschool-yearbook/534778/2 "2010-04-02T22:08:39Z")
Bumping to add “and the Dacron Republican-Democrat” to the OP’s request. My copy disintegrated years ago. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-national-lampoons-highschool-yearbook/534778/3 "2010-04-03T00:05:34Z")
I have the original of both, as well as a reprint of the Newspaper Parody. The latter was reprinted in 2005 by [RuggedLand Press](http://www.ruggedland.com/NLsunday.html). They also did a reprint edition of the [Highschool Yearbook Parody](http://www.ruggedland.com/NLyearbook.html). Both seem to be available on [amazon.com](http://amazon.com), though it looks like they’re out of print. There is a National Lampoon, Inc. that owns the licenses to the magazines, though recently they got into some hot water for some shady stock dealing. Still, the Lampoon does have a web page that used to reprint their best articles. The Lampoon did several books around the same time as the High School Yearbook Parody. According to [Mark’s Very Large National Lampoon Site](http://www.marksverylarge.com/booksetc/booksetc.html), the only original book released prior to the High School Yearbook parody (there were reprint anthologies) was **The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor** in 1973. There may have been articles in the magazine dealing with Dacron before the Yearbook Parody, though I don’t recall them. The magazine did go back the Dacron for their November 1976 election issue, which had a long article (maybe the entire issue) describing the mayoral campaign in Dacron with the two candidates looking a lot like Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. You’ll have to scour eBay for back issues. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-national-lampoons-highschool-yearbook/534778/4 "2010-04-03T00:25:32Z")
Jeez, I haven’t seen that since high school. Who do you think was the “Mad Crapper”? I suspect Principal Cornholt ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-national-lampoons-highschool-yearbook/534778/5 "2010-04-03T00:52:17Z")
Editor Brian McConnachie put out an official Lampoon book _The Job of Sex_, also in 1974. I don’t recall whether it came before or after the Yearbook parody. In any case, it wasn’t nearly as successful. Did we ever find out whether Emily Praegger’s “appendicitis” was a boy or a girl? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-national-lampoons-highschool-yearbook/534778/6 "2010-04-03T14:56:59Z")
I still have my copy. Loved the blurbs under the senior pics. “Fridge”. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-national-lampoons-highschool-yearbook/534778/7 "2010-04-03T17:47:35Z")
That yearbook can be read cover-to-cover like a novel. Still love it. And what a trip to see young(er) P.J. O’Rourke in drag. A favorite gag (pun unintended): the “vandalism” floating in the pool was discovered by somebody during the breaststroke race. . ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-national-lampoons-highschool-yearbook/534778/8 "2010-04-05T00:47:05Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Bumping to add “and the Dacron Republican-Democrat” to the OP’s request. My copy disintegrated years ago. Bumping to add “I used to leave the Dacron Republican-Democrat out on my coffee table just to confuse friends, often with the shopping insert for SWILLMART on top”. _“ **SWILLMART** : Where Quality Is A Slogan”_