Off the Wall joke running dangerously thin

It has been reported by a number of turned-off readers of the Fourth Estate that a joke in the Off the Wall section has been running dangerously thin as of late. The joke, a strange and frankly tiring spoof involving the OTW section going green, subtly mocking the school's "sustainability" word of the year while at the same time biting the hand of anyone that came near it has really gotten to be more of a "laugh at you thing" than a "laugh with you thing." "It's really sad to see how far Off the Wall has fallen," Shelly Durgoy, senior communication major said. "It used to be funny, with snide news stories, humor columns, even some bitchin' personal ads, but now the best they can come up with is a tired spiel about going green? Even the environmentalists are bored with that track." The joke has been dragged into a third week on the campus humor page, bringing the grand total to 7,500 papers bearing the image of under scale wind turbines sitting on a transparent, feathered image of some immaculate meadowland. The article announcing OTW going green, originally published in the Oct. 22 issue of the 4e, included jokes originally meant to poke fun at numerous student orgs, one implying that the 4e, being a newspaper, has a lot of hot air, ergo wind turbines would power the paper. The article also made erroneous mention of Phlash TV having turbines running on tears and broken dreams, but this has neither been confirmed nor denied by Channel 20. Off the Wall editor Nick Reilly could not be reached for comment regarding this article, but a press release from the OTW offices says that the picture will be taken down next issue and replaced with a picture of OTW's old puppy mill, which is how they used to generate their humor ideas.