Word: humoring
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...nearly 20 years, ran out of digits. For a nation already struggling with a bleak economic reality, it was a less-than-reassuring display. Several news organizations quipped about such a literal "sign of the times," while the satiricial newspaper The Onion offered its own brand of gallows humor: "If everyone just donated one dollar, we would have enough money to buy a new clock...
...These days, with the economy, people need humor more than ever. Have you got anything to say about the economy to make people smile? I don't know about making people smile, but I think there's an analogy to be made about connection between money and language. When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language. When we get down into the roots of language, we're dealing with something that...
...said. "Clearly we're in the panic stage of unreasonable behavior." At the Connecticut offices of UBS, nervous colleagues passed around a joke about why the market was like a divorce but worse: "I've lost half my net worth, and I still have my wife." Off-color humor for off-color times...
...home of the longest-running humor magazine and the original campus ham-radio station, age doesn’t usually go out of style. So too for staff members—Harvard finished among the country’s top employers for older workers in a list released last Tuesday...
...cramping Federal Reserve and the frantic Dow Jones and more to do with bear attacks and the abstract idea of “truthiness.” That’s right: every vote cast on Nov. 4 will be a vote to determine the future of American political humor, whether it be a brittle rehash of the stale conservative robot-rhetoric gags, or a softball jabbing of an administration that most liberal humorists have all but canonized already. Folks like Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, who have flourished under the current administration, now find themselves in a perplexing...