Word: buttes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Phils, who have been the butt of most baseball jokes since Shibe Park became Connie Mack Stadium, probably will inspire a whole new series of jokes this coming season. The Phils did quite a bit of dealing over the winter--but it is doubtful that General Manager Paul Owens bluffed anybody. New acquisitions Dave Cash and Ron Schueler are good ball players, but they are not miracle men--so the Philly fans needn't delude themselves. Of course the big question mark is Steve Carlton. If the big lefty will stop endorsing products and start pitching like...
...slide on the road under you. There is a reason that you are supposed to sit on top of the bike. There is also a reason that they make grind stones out of rock and that sort of thing. I sanded about a quarter inch off my butt in that fall, and could not sit down for a week. I guess that I was kind of lucky though, because I skidded between the posts of a guard rail at a good 30 miles an hour. One of those posts sure would have done...
THERE IS an old joke that says if you're coming down the Pennsylvania Turnpike toward Philadelphia and you have to go to the bathroom, hold it--it will give you something to do once you get there. In sports, in education, in politics, Philadelphia has traditionally been the butt of disparaging jokes. Philly is, after all, a dead town, a city of losers. The best thing you can say for the people there is that they know when they are beat. These days, Philadelphians sag with the sickening knowledge that they are in for yet another defeat...
...face. He jumped up spilling salad all over the place. Then he just ran off into the trees. In a few minutes he came running back with a bunch of fig leaves in his hand. Then he starts yelling at me, "For God's sake, Eve, get your butt off the ground and put on these fig leaves...
Better to try and "liberalize" the military rather than butt one's head against a stone wall trying to destroy it, the argument continues. And what better way to insure that the army refrain from rightist adventures than to put Harvard men in its leadership? Surely, compassionate and humane Ivy Leaguers in uniform will protect us against all those proto-fascist stump-jumping hillbillies from the South and midwestern cow colleges...