This, a history of the New Yorker's "vaunted" fact-checking department, is an instant classic and I will be quoting it for the rest of my life.
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"Sedaris has complained, “Checking is like being fucked in the ass by a hot thermos.” Bua mentioned this to the checker on Sedaris’s next piece, Yinuo Shi. Shi considered the analogy and said, “If a thermos works, the outside wouldn’t be hot.” Pure gold, every line.
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