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...scientist said he enjoyed classes outside of his field, including Foreign Culture 22, “La critique sociale à travers l’humour,” taught by Senior Preceptor Marlies Mueller...
Zapf-Belanger, who said she did not encounter the HUPD officer, wrote that the studyers “played up the humour part” of their near-nakedness. “I’m not sure why they were hassled, though, because as far as I know, it’s not illegal to go around in your underwear. No private parts were showing, so it’s no different from tanning on a beach,” she wrote...
...puppy on a HRL poster, they would tear it down.” According to Murray, HRL took the same light-hearted attitude with designing these posters. “Some of the statements are meant to be taken as fact; some, meant to be taken as humour.”After all, there are no pictures of a bloody fetus or Bible quotes saying how all sinners will burn in the lake of fire—the staple components to pro-life advertisement. In fact, Murray saw this poster as a sort of “feminist statement...that...
...Overdue charge for a copy of The Punch Library of Humour checked out from a New Zealand library in 1945; the library waived the fine in return for permission to put the overdue book on display...
...chased by an assassin with his own face. The dreams finally drove him to seek out his past. He flew to Ghana, he says, "to find out what I was made of." Eshun chronicles his travels - visiting forts, braving the not-so-wild elephants of a national park - with humour and insight. The crux of the book is Eshun's discovery about his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Joseph de Graft, a Dutch slave trader and an ancestor of Eshun's on his mother's side, settled in Ghana in the 1750s and married a local chief's daughter...