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You’ve heard of a face for radio, this is an accent for print.
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The line extends the phrase “a face for radio” into a new joke. Instead of saying someone looks better unseen, it imagines an accent that works better in writing than in speech. Since accents are normally heard, calling one “for print” is an amusing mismatch between sound and text.
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