If you take a look over at the archives for February 2006, you will notice that I spent a chunk of time figuring out how much it would cost to purchase (more or less) everything advertised in an issue of The New Yorker.
Since I did that, I have been itching to do the same thing again. The ads for lateral corduroy pants and jet-powered swimming pool treadmills have been crying out for my commentary.
But what to do? It took me ten days to get through a magazine that comes out every week. I can't keep up with every issue at that rate.
And then I realized: I have the Complete New Yorker! I can take a look at ads back to 1925! At a more leisurely pace!
The issue that I deconstructed was dated January 16, 2006. Let's go back ten years and see what we get.
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