The Northeast Times Letters Quiz: Answers revealed!

It’s going to be a light day today, folks. I just have one or two things planned for the afternoon and that’s about it. But you’re already partying like it’s 2006, right?

Anyway, the answers to yesterday’s Northeast Times letters quiz: Andy was the first one to get it right; #3 and #6 are both not real Northeast Times letters.

#3 I just made up and wrote in about 15 seconds. #6 is a real letter, it just appeared in the Daily News a few months ago. Yes, every other letter ran in the Northeast Times sometime in the past few years. Even the really racist ones. Even the one that says “As for the squirrels in the park, they will not leave an area filled with so many nuts.” Amazing, huh?

The Northeast Times Letters Quiz

When I was a little boy, I would read the letters page of the Northeast Times and think to myself, “Who writes these letters? Who prints these letters?” Now, of course, I am older, but I am still baffled by those two questions.

To get over my puzzlement, I’ve always just made fun of them. (Making fun of things is what makes the world go ’round.) But with no Northeast Times this week, what would I do? A reader helped out with a quick IM and a good idea: print a bunch of Northeast Times letters, throw in a few fakes, and see if anyone can pick out the fake ones.

After the jump, 10 letters. Eight are from the Northeast Times letters page, two aren’t. Can you spot the real ones from the fakes? A few easy ones — ones that have been on this site before — have been thrown in because they were so abhorrent I had to post them again. The winner gets a photo of a puppy.

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