Fun_People Archive
28 Mar
WhiteBoardness - 3/27/96 - C.O.L. Index

Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 03:00:36 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: WhiteBoardness - 3/27/96 - C.O.L. Index

Excerpted-from: WhiteBoard News for Wednesday, March 27, 1996

Los Angeles, California:

Looks like it's cost more this year for a few laughs, according to
California attorney Malcolm Kushner, who compiles the annual Cost of
Laughing Index.

The index tracks the prices of everything from Groucho Marx glasses to pink
gorilla telegrams; it went up 3 percent the past year, boosted by a 38
percent increase in the newsstand price of Mad Magazine, a 3 percent
increase in the minimum writing fee for a television sitcom and a 10 percent
increase in the price of rubber chickens ($6 a dozen.)

[Fun_People is still holding the line...  -psl]

© 1996 Peter Langston