{"id":288,"date":"2016-02-18T20:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2016-02-18T22:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T22:10:29","slug":"were-not-cu-nooz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/?page_id=288","title":{"rendered":"We’re not CU Nooz"},"content":{"rendered":"
We\u2019d like to set the record straight: we got here first. Cornell Lunatic\u00a0was founded in Ithaca, New York, in 1978, 38 years before that other website got its start.<\/p>\n
A few notes on Lunatic\u00a0v.\u00a0Nooz<\/h2>\n
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The two institutions were not named for the same person, but our namesake (Dingo P. Lunatic) and theirs (Jacob G. Nooz) were distant cousins.<\/li>\n
The Lunatic\u00a0has about 1,100 physical copies available. The Nooz: None.<\/li>\n
Lunatic\u00a0faculty publish one magazine at a time and around two per year. Nooz\u00a0faculty publish the equivalent of 5 magazines worth of bullshit per semester, and around 12 per year (including holidays, since apparently Nooz staff has nothing more important to do with their time).<\/li>\n
The Lunatic\u00a0holds an award; the Nooz\u00a0holds zero.<\/li>\n
Cornell Lunatic\u00a0is headquartered in the heart of Cornell University, which got its name from Ezra Cornell, who probably inherited his name from his grandfather or something. \u00a0 CU Nooz is based on the internet, so we all know that will never last.<\/li>\n
Winters at the Lunatic are snowy and cold. Winters at the Nooz, on the other hand, are \u2026\u00a0reported on way too often because they think it’s still funny to make jokes about it.<\/li>\n
The Lunatic\u00a0has an average of 193 good jokes in\u00a0every magazine, while the Nooz\u00a0has an average of just 15 per 1000 articles.<\/li>\n
The mascot for our magazine is a moon; theirs is probably something stupid.<\/li>\n
Both magazines have dedicated followers. \u00a0Hence the nicknames \u201cThe Good Magazine\u201d (us) and \u201cThe Overheard Spam\u201d (them).<\/li>\n
Both magazines\u00a0feature jokes written by Cornell students: Original Content #1-200 (us)\u00a0and Unfunny Prelim Jokes #71-76\u00a0(them).<\/li>\n
Ithaca is approximately 225 miles from The Big Apple. The Internet is used by criminals and terrorists. Coincidence? You decide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n