Hey,Look by Simon Rich-Hilarious


	Hey,Look by Simon Rich-Hilarious

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7-18-2007 9:36 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/38de2365-4ec9-4476-aede-d327b6beb70b/8078133C-82EE-44B9-9965-15FDB8187351/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/23/070723sh_shouts_rich" href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/23/070723sh_shouts_rich" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newyorker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/23/070723sh_shouts_rich">W hat I imagined the people around me were saying when I was . . </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/23/070723sh_shouts_rich"><P>Fourteen:</p> <P>“Why does that kid have a black ‘X’ on the back of his right hand?”</p> <P>“I bet it’s because he went to some kind of cool rock concert last night.” </p> <P>“Wow. He must’ve stayed out pretty late if he didn’t have time to scrub it off.”</p> <P>“Yeah, and that’s probably why his hair is so messy and dirty—because he cares more about rocking out than conforming to society.”</p> <P>“Even though he isn’t popular in the traditional sense, I respect him from afar.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/23/070723sh_shouts_rich"><P>Sixteen:</p> <P>“Hey, look, it’s that kid Simon, who wrote that scathing poem for the literary magazine.”</p> <P>“You mean the one about how people are phonies? Wow—I loved that poem!”</p> <P>“Me, too. Reading it made me realize for the first time that everyone is a phony, including me.”</p> <P>“The only person at this school who isn’t a phony is Simon.”</p> <P>“Yeah. He sees right through us.” <SPAN class="dingbat">♦</SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8078133C-82EE-44B9-9965-15FDB8187351/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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