Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kosh-B’gosh barreled down on me and caused me to throw up a little bit in my mouth. The other thing I remember thinking is, “Wow, this would be a great date spot.” You might think this sounds absurd. “Chuck E. Cheese’s is for five-year-olds,” you’re probably saying to yourself...
...Reid's claim that George W. Bush would reduce Social Security benefits 40% was hogwash. The President has merely stated the obvious, that reductions will be necessary. Reid also made the absurd comparison between Bush's very conservative investment-account proposal and Las Vegas gaming tables. Finally, there was the boorish and possibly unprecedented hooting of the President by Democrats during the speech...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...absurd spending has continued in both boroughs this offseason. Interestingly, the teams seem to be moving in opposite directions. While the Mets have acquired Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran to add to a competent core of veterans and top prospects, the Yankees are slowly but surely becoming a team of overpaid has-beens. The Mets could be the best team in New York in as little as two years...