Word: dems
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...life." While scoring 18 touchdowns, rookie Elbert ("Ickey") Woods has smoothed the black edge off several unenlightened symbols that have crept into currency in Cincinnati. Fans have taken to calling the stadium "the Jungle," and throughout the games they chant like a minstrel chorus, "Who dey think gonna beat dem Bengals?" Ickey's popular touchdown "shuffle" would be the last straw were it not so preposterously white that it somehow saves...
...performance at his Thursday press conference was no improvement. With the nation looking for leadership, Reagan regressed into petty, partisan Dem-bashing. Don't blame me, he said, "the Congress is the one that's in command" of the budget process. (It's also in command of the tax-writing process, but no matter. This is a president who thinks that the Founders having given Congress a role in the budge-writing process is "kind of a stupid setup.") Much like he did before last November's election, he played his hackneyed tune about how 50 years of Democratic...
...some t'ings dey shouldna got but we like dem quand-meme: like Corona beer ($2.50) . . . Ooo-wee! You squeeze dat lime and glug-glug-glug! You ain't tasted nothin' better! Rien!. . . and Hurricanes ($2.95). . . Cay-john as Chop Suey, but dey just like dem ones at Pat O'Brien's in dey Vieux Carre, and you drink two o'those, you say, "Doucement!," start feelin' like a nutria gettin' whomped on dey head! And I tell you what - C'est vrai, babe! - Dey teach dat Scorpion Bowl how to sting! Put one o' dem in your shoe...
Well, we get dese chips and piquante sauce. Dey OK. We eat dem up. Drink Corona beer and goutons a Margarita ($2.95). "Dis Margarita tastes like Windex!" my frien' says. But don't dey all? C'est comme...
...Ersters en Brochette. Dey take dem salty ersters, wrap 'em in bacon, fry dem up. Sounds good to me! But the breading? Too heavy! And je ne peux pas gouter the ba-cohn! Menieure sauce real good, though. Gimme more uh dat. I tell...