Word: insultable
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George Carlin is an insult comic. Forget Jerry Seinfeld’s observational humor: Did you ever notice that they call it Ovaltine when the jar is round? Carlin doesn’t care. Like Leary and Miller, Carlin makes a buck lashing out at all the stupid people in the world. Unfortunately, in his aptly-named latest album, Complaints and Grievances, he steps a little off course...
...guys with stupid “sissy” names like Blake and Blair and Blaine and Brent. He hates environmentally conscious yuppies that separate their garbage and listen to Steely Dan. It’s all unprintable filth; my virgin ears are bleeding. Finally, George Carlin is an insult comic again...
...earlier he would never do. Under pressure from U.S. business and farmers, Congress last year loosened the economic embargo against Cuba, in force since 1962, by allowing commercial sales of food and medicine, as long as Castro pays up front in cash. Castro had rejected that condition as an insult, even though importing goods from the nearby U.S. is far cheaper than buying from Europe or Asia. His turnabout has Washington wondering just how badly Cuba's threadbare economy is suffering. Says a U.S. official: "Castro is just paying for the free aid we offered so he can save political...
...fellow students, I always assumed that the HSTO was a bloodsucker of the highest order—what kind of profit were they making off my $5.75 23 minute phone call to my sister in Philadelphia? Who still pays 25 cents a minute for long distance? To add insult to injury, I was furious last week when I received the additional notice that long distance rates are being hiked up by 7.5 percent and that my monthly charge for local service is going up an additional $3 a month. Surely HSTO must be making a fortune off its gold mine...
...likely to be determined by how much money they have socked away. What they think about the chances of hanging onto their job long enough to even be working in the second half of 2002. Whether those pre- and post-Christmas sales are an incentive or an insult...