Word: butte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following a trail blazed by Carson, who introduced a self-parodying subtext. Carson's famous "savers" -- ad-libs to salvage jokes that bombed -- along with his conspiratorial asides to the audience during corny bits like Aunt Blabby and Carnac, were a way of making the comedian himself the butt of the joke...
...Here at the House of Blues, we are inaugurating the first driveway featuring butt prints," Aykroyd said...
...deal is being cut," says an aide. On the campaign plane, he was known as "the Enforcer" for gently policing the quotes from staff members in the morning papers. When Begala once referred to President Bush's rear end ("If he wants to debate, he can get his butt up to Michigan"), it was Lindsey who told him to get out of macho overdrive...
...beer or two, and munch raw U.C. burgers. Then you go into the stands and watch that spheroid hurl down the field into the hands of Yale players. (We're going to lose.) But you'll pretend to have fun in the 20 degree weather anyway, discussing with your butt-cold friends your plans for the evening. Of course, there's always a chance that the Crimson will actually play a good game--it happened, after all, as recently as 1990 in New Haven. That would give us reason to cheer...
...Frank Sinatra said he wanted to kick you in the butt when you rejected the national anthem, the actor Joe Pesci said he would have slapped you if he had been on the show when you ripped the picture, and a group smashed your records to protest what you had done. Why do you think it upsets people so much when you speak...