Word: humority
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Their sport yields no meat, no trophies, just pride in one's marksmanship and that freeze-frame moment of annihilation. "Varmint vapor" it's called by hunters. "Montana mist." "Dakota droplets." Apparently unconcerned about p.r. or the tender feelings of nonhunters, varminters have a taste for sick humor and grisly imagery. The 54,000-member V.H.A. sells T shirts that feature cartoons of exploding rodents. Its headquarters in Pierre is lined with snapshots of happy hunters and their diminutive kills. There are images of coyotes, badgers, gophers, and one large close-up of a prairie-dog carcass tumbling through...
...alive on the Web [ONLINE, July 17], James Poniewozik refers to Mad and asks, "Were you aware that Mad still exists?" Of course, your readers are aware Mad is still here! They learned 44 years ago not to believe everything they read in TIME! And Mad has a humor website madmag.com) That fact must have slipped through the cracks when Poniewozik was doing his exhaustive research on sardonic sites. What, us worry? NICK MEGLIN AND JOHN FICARRA Co-Editors, Mad New York City...
...TONY BLAIR: His simplified handwriting (no extra strokes) shows a facile mind and excellent social skills. He has a high degree of intellectual and verbal acuity and a good sense of humor...
...roll with the punches? What struck me is how much he seemed to genuinely enjoy the joke. Whenever I ran into him, he always brought it up. He could have been merely courting a TIME reporter, but my gut told me that he had (A) a genuine sense of humor, (B) secure enough feelings about his Judaism and the place of Jews in the world that he could laugh about it and (C) a healthy lack of pomposity...
...performed himself, winning the contest with one-liners like "When he spoke in the Senate, Bill Bradley used to be called boring. Now that he's a candidate they say he's comfortable in his own skin." That's not a thigh-slapper, but it's wry and aware. Humor, then, is one more thing Lieberman brings to the ticket. And if he can bring out the oft-mentioned funny side of the private Al Gore, it'll be no small thing...