Word: hawing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know you've been happily married for 51 years, but you can't tell me that you weren't tempted during any of those appearances on Hee Haw...
Random Television Executive: "WOW! Our ratings for 'The Best of Hee-Haw' just doubled overnight! Let's add two hours during primetime...
...dean, fill out some withdrawal petitions, a cancellation of housing form and some other random sheets of paper that will allow Harvard to keep tabs on you while they can't track your every move via ID card. These all come before the Ad Board, who will hem and haw about whether to let you, a legal adult, definitely above the compulsory schooling age, withdraw from school. Strangely enough, they'll decide it's okay. According to Bonnie Blanchard, the assistant to the senior tutor in Dunster House, all this is "to make sure you don't slip through...
...Davis' rendition, by the way, is terrific). But what's truly surprising about the first track on DiFranco's new album, which is also the title song, is just how good-natured and downright jaunty it is. After the first verse, DiFranco lets loose a country-and-western "yee-haw" and a wave of gentle ska-infused horns kicks in. It's an early signal: this is an album that refuses to be boxed...
...Haw script shows some early gems of Puritan "country" humor, including this bit: Earl: "Eddie, thy daughter is uglier than a possum with acne." Eddie: "It is predestined that she be so, to learn humility. Yeeeeeee-haw!" (Audience hangs Earl and Eddie for the sin of play-acting...