Word: gag
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...when King started turning over duties to assistants. Walt and Skeezix volume one begins with the full 1921 and 1922 run, excluding color Sunday strips, the period when "Gasoline Alley" had just started to appear as a four panel strip after beginning in 1919 as a series of single gag panels. Gorgeously designed and printed on heavy, off-white paper Walt and Skeezix also comes with a rich trove of photos and archival background material, making this weighty brick of a book a revelation. "Gasoline Alley" clearly belongs in the cannon as a deeply American masterwork of cartooning...
...whaling groups fear that taste for the fatty meat is fading, potentially weakening the political movement to bring back commercial whaling. That's one reason why the Japan Whaling Association holds an annual whale-eating event that would make a Greenpeace member gag. Hundreds of Diet lawmakers and staff members packed the Parliamentary Museum hall last Tuesday to taste such delicacies as whale sushi from Sapporo and whale steak from Tokyo, dished out by cooks in jackets with pictures of happy cartoon whales on the back. Mutsuko Onishi, serving her famous Osaka whale noodles, said she wants...
...little put out by the acclaim heaped on his Frankenstein's monster (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY named it the best album of 2004). "Mixing two records takes discipline and creativity, but it's not talent," he says. "It's just output." When the hype cooled, Burton feared that his little gag might pigeonhole him as a novelty act. "I don't want to dismiss it, but it was a weird kind of success...
Alas, yes. The standard test for strep may make your child gag, but after experimenting with less invasive tests, doctors concluded that they still need to swab kids' tonsils. Just tell 'em about the ice cream...
Hands clasped on knees is not the standard position for most Harvard-Shamrock interactions. By student accounts, liaisons happen more frequently in freshman dorm rooms, where friends hire strippers as a gag gift...