Word: conan
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...Bono follows in the footsteps of last year's unconventional selection--former Lampoon president and late-night comic Conan C. O'Brien...
What theSpark.com has done is taken the kind of boring career indicator foisted upon high school students by their guidance counselors and turned it into a revelation loaded with the kind of brutal honesty you only get these days in the locker room or on Conan. Dominant extroverts include The Politician (who is "manipulative" with a "propensity for cheating") and the Performer; submissive introverts include the brooding Mastermind and the rather pathetic Helper Who Finds Lost Children Over the Internet. A personal favorite is the Dreamer (submissive introverted abstract feeler): "reserved and imaginative, most everyone thinks you're a loser...
...writer is host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien...
...special we put the phrase "the year" in front of it--for a long, long time. It was 1982 when Prince released a song predicting nuclear armageddon or a really good party--depending on how you read it--on New Year's Eve, 1999. It was 1993 when Conan O'Brien started his "In the Year 2000" segment ("In the year 2000 Roger Ebert will be so overweight and out of shape, he will no longer be able to lift either thumb."). Everyone was getting all hot and bothered. Even castrated people were getting so excited that...
Past Class Day speakers have included Coretta Scott King in 1968, actor Rodney Dangerfield in 1978, Mother Teresa in 1982 and comic Conan C. O'Brien '85 last June...