Word: assed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still wondering why you bothered to show an ass with an elephant in the background...
...room was a "bibliography of the works of Sylvester Marmaduke (celebrated Aleutian Islands poet) (Vancouver, 1943?)." Next to this, Gridley noticed, was a mimeographed supplement to the British Museum's Bulletin of Printed Books. It mentioned the acquisition of the unique volume published in 1455, Asellus Hinnibundus (Whinnying Ass). Asellus begins with the words: "In hoc libro non continentur quae expectares, candide lector" (You won't find what you expect in this book, shining reader) and ends: "Nuces tibi" (Nuts to you). The fake bulletin also states that "until further notice all Scottish books printed before 1750 will be issued...
...camera, itself carried by an exquisitely intelligent (and spiritually inclined) wild ass (representing the fifth of the deadly sins, anal retention), sways rhythmically up and down, generating a subtle, but unmistakable aura of coitus. Jockeying back and forth into view were Jacques Tati and Mme. de Gaulle playing mudgutter across the north transept of Chartres Cathedral. At the end of each round, the loser had to run nude through the south portal and roll in the snow before a crowd of lepers. With that lovely timing for which he is worshipped, Quouguou waits until the lepers have drawn very close...
Cook, Bennett, and Moore take care of the outrageous. Cook has perfected an almost frightening imitation of the Prime Minister delivering one of his televised globe-side chats: his Macmillan is a semi-paralyzed, desperately senile ass who bleats bromides in a faltering Edwardian drawl. Moore is a most accomplished musician, and he has composed several most accomplished parodies of lieder by Schubert (this one called "Eine Flabbergast"), songs by Faure and Benjamin Britten and a piano sonata by Beethoven...
...even violence. Walter L. Cohoon, editor of a competitive paper, twice thrashed Saunders on Main Street and also sued him for libel. But under the state's liberal libel laws, Cohoon had to drop the suit when Saunders printed this impenitent retraction, WALTER COHOON IS NOT A BRAYING ASS. Subsequent Independent exposures of Cohoon's shenanigans led to his conviction as an embezzler. "The trouble with the Independent," its editor once wrote, "is that it has always been 15 to 20 years ahead of its time.'' The paper scoffed at Woodrow Wilson's illusions about...