Cyrus!
April 8, 2013 4:51 PM Subscribe
Can you name yet another short story for me? This humorous SF story appeared in the National Lampoon decades ago; I found it in a Lampoon anthology where it was very out of place. The story was written as a transcription of a tape made by academics who had gone to a small town in Appalachia to take an oral history. The county was named Tempura County or Teriyaki County, or something else that was obviously a Japanese food. The main figure of the story was a friendly but powerful and unpredictable entity called Cyrus.
It's been years since I even saw that anthology, and I haven't gotten that story out of my head.
It's been years since I even saw that anthology, and I haven't gotten that story out of my head.
Best answer: I found something that may be of interest on an expired eBay ad of all things...
In the July 1976 issue of National Lampoon magazine, there was an article called "Fragment of the Oral History of Tempura County Tennessee". The issue of the magazine was called "Down Home" and it had a crude drawing of Elvis Presley on the cover.
Sorry, couldn't find an author, nor excerpt.
Sources (sorry link button isn't working for me)-
Expired ad: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lot-of-3-NATIONAL-LAMPOON-Magazines-1976-1977-Down-Home-Elvis-Sports-Gay-ish-/221179595230
Old cover: http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/national-lampoon/2
Hope this helps!
posted by MeatheadBrokeMyChair at 6:53 PM on April 8, 2013 [1 favorite]
In the July 1976 issue of National Lampoon magazine, there was an article called "Fragment of the Oral History of Tempura County Tennessee". The issue of the magazine was called "Down Home" and it had a crude drawing of Elvis Presley on the cover.
Sorry, couldn't find an author, nor excerpt.
Sources (sorry link button isn't working for me)-
Expired ad: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lot-of-3-NATIONAL-LAMPOON-Magazines-1976-1977-Down-Home-Elvis-Sports-Gay-ish-/221179595230
Old cover: http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/national-lampoon/2
Hope this helps!
posted by MeatheadBrokeMyChair at 6:53 PM on April 8, 2013 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Meathead has it. It's Fragment of the Oral History of Tempura County, Tennessee, or, "Hiya, Cyrus" by John Weidman and Tony Hendra, National Lampoon, July 1976, p64-66,69,106,110-111.
posted by eschatfische at 8:19 PM on April 8, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by eschatfische at 8:19 PM on April 8, 2013 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Looks like it appears in
The National lampoon treasury of humor
Author: Al Sarrantonio
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1991.
ISBN: 0671708333 9780671708337
OCLC Number: 23690550
in case you want to try for an interlibrary loan.
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:38 AM on April 9, 2013
The National lampoon treasury of humor
Author: Al Sarrantonio
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1991.
ISBN: 0671708333 9780671708337
OCLC Number: 23690550
in case you want to try for an interlibrary loan.
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:38 AM on April 9, 2013
Response by poster: This is fantastic! Thank you!
posted by Countess Elena at 2:06 PM on April 9, 2013
posted by Countess Elena at 2:06 PM on April 9, 2013
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posted by Bron at 5:32 PM on April 8, 2013