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Next up, Bill Boley spoke on general comedy writing. He recommended a thesaurus, insult books, comic strips as helpers, then put a forefinger to his temple and said, "You're going to need a little bit up here." He recommended writing the punch line first and then fitting a story around it. If he is not getting laughs, he has his dummy say, "Hey, don't complain to me. You're doing all the talking." Moreover, "that line has got me out of a corner many times." Directly, Bill Boley demonstrated what he could do with his voice...
Rules are rules, said City Manager Bob Acker; only the city council had the authority to waive the fee. Nationwide publicity helped persuade the council last week to forgive the bill and avoid adding insult to Pallamary's injury. Pallamary called the action "very kind, but symbolic." He still faces several thousand dollars in hospital bills...
...Where do you go, Yooveeyay?" In Virginia, where I live and work, this is a vague insult to one's virility...
...shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars." He and his kin are cynical, terse and masters of an amiably menacing tone that echoes the classic response to insult of Owen Wister's The Virginian: "When you call me that, smile...
...coleslaw will be added. If the cus- tomer wants his sandwich on rye toast, the waiter hollers "whiskey down." A pistol "dressed" indicates that Russian dressing is to be used, and anyone discovered eating pastrami that way in a New York delicatessen can expect to earn the sort of insult the late Zero Mostel is said to have hurled when he heard such a concoction being ordered. As the legend goes, the great comic stood up in the jam-packed room, pointed a finger at the offender and screamed, "Get out of this restaurant!" Which shows how seriously Americans take...