Word: humorizing
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...when I started the punch process. But the club’s first punch event really surprised me; I’d suddenly discovered a social community at Harvard that I truly wanted to be a part of. The members struck me as clever guys with good senses of humor who were legitimately interested in one another. I imagine that men and women in different clubs probably describe their first punch event and the remainder of their successful punch seasons in equally fond terms. In the best-case scenario, a final club member finds in his or her club exactly...
...girl-cotters,” who held protests outside local Abercrombie outlets—are missing the central point. Abercrombie & Fitch has the right to sell whatever it wants, and young women are more than capable of deciding for themselves what is self-degrading and what is humorously self-expressive. The pressure that these 23 teenage “girl-cotters” recently created has caused Abercrombie to yank some of its more “creative” Attitude Tees from its shelves, including the notorious “Who Needs Brains When You Have These...
...would say “The Notebook” or something sentimental, but I have to go with something a little out of the ordinary like “Best in Show.” No one in my family understands me, they don’t share the humor. My mom is always like, “Is this supposed to be funny...
...with solutions to real world problems through the creation of computer programs. One example from this year was quantitatively ranking Supreme Court candidates based on how closely the candidates’ beliefs align with those of President Bush. “Computer science people have their own sense of humor,” said Yan Zhang ’07, one of the three members of the HC^3 squad, nicknamed “Team Ad Hoc.” According to Zhang, the “whimsical and playful” problems reflected this humor. The contest organizers emphasized...
...obviously well rehearsed and harmonized, for a typical undergraduate familiar with Top 40 music like me, their classic set tended to be less attention grabbing than the Lowkeys’s pop songs. And yet, the Din and Tonics never approached tedium, partially because of their deft insertion of humor into their acts. For instance, in the “Cheeseburger Song,” Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07 sang about his love for a McDonald’s girl, the “angel in the polyester uniform” and the members of the Dins...