which magazine, Humbug orTall Timber Short Lines, was a humor magazine with satirical jabs at movies, television, advertising and various artifacts of popular culture, from cereal boxes to fashion photographs?
Tall Timber Short Lines Tall Timber Short Lines was a magazine dedicated to logging railroads and short line railroads, and was published by Oso Publications. The magazine is read both by model railroaders and those into logging history and modeling. The magazine ended publication in August 2008.
Squib (writing) A squib is a brief satirical or witty piece of writing or speech, like a lampoon, or a short, sometimes humorous piece in a newspaper or magazine, used as a filler. It can be intended to ignite thinking and discourse by others on topics of theoretical importance—e.g., see MIT Press's journal, "Linguistic Inquiry", but is often less substantial than this and just humorous (see The Daily Squib).