[eru]

You should link to the source of your quote.

[CamperBob2]

Arguably so, but all I can find are other plagiarized copies. :-P

The New Yorker's paywall has successfully obscured the origin of the joke, so that's on them, as far as I'm concerned.

[eru]

Yes.

Well, instead of an actual web link, you could just mention that it's from the New Yorker.

[CamperBob2]

"It's from the New Yorker. The most important magazine of our time. Probably the most important magazine that ever was."

(From a vaguely-remembered 1990s-era ad campaign that I thought was excruciatingly self-indulgent at the time, but which evidently worked.)