Would you put your stock in National Lampoon? No, really. What if it said please? The Los Angeles-based funny factory needs some serious financial assistance. It's hoping to sell $8 million worth of stock to repay loans and help National Lampoon Inc. stave off additional losses. National Lampoon shares a name with its collegiate predecessor but little else. Still, Harvard Lampoon President Simon Rich wasn't buying it. ``It's probably a prank,'' Rich said yesterday. ``It's the kind of thing they would do.'' Only this is no joke. National Lampoon filed paperwork last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission and...