Word: jocks
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...stereotypes about post-high school institutions. Gimpy, a student at Tekerson Tech, spends his time playing juvenile pranks on his RA and ordering around his overweight, bespectacled followers. Nitz, an apathetic whiner, and Cal, an airheaded hedonist, attend State U. Rocko, a “maladjusted, underachieving” jock with alcohol issues, attends (you guessed it!) a community college...
...Bush Administration's jet jockeys applauded the performance. Rumsfeld, a onetime naval aviator, praised Osborn's coolness, even as he criticized Wang's hotdogging. Such high jinks, said Rumsfeld, who used to teach formation flying as a naval jock, were absurdly dangerous. Osborn's flying, by contrast, got nothing but raves, especially from another Administration pilot. "As an old F-102 pilot, let me tell you, Shane, you did a heck of a job bringing that aircraft down," President Bush telephoned the 26-year-old. "You made your country proud...
...working as a janitor in a Los Angeles radio station. Constantly derided for his blatant white trashiness, the station’s producers can’t help but noticing the hapless Joe, and soon bring him on the air as fodder for the sardonic wit of shock-jock Zander Kelly (Dennis Miller, essentially playing himself). Kelly relishes in ridiculing Joe, but through his questioning, Dirt’s sad life story is revealed...
Eventually, no amount of rocket-jock calm could hide the fact that Mir had become a deathtrap. Once parts of the glinting International Space Station went aloft, it was clear there was no need to keep the old outpost in orbit. So now, more than 15 years after it was launched on what was to have been a three-year flight, Mir will splash into history, its mission finished but its story only beginning to be told...
Raised in Manchester, Mass., Lentz was the consummate jock during his time at St. John's Prep, a regional school in Danvers, Mass. His senior year, Lentz was a tailback on the nationally-ranked football team, starred on a hockey squad that was in the Super Eight and led the best baseball team in the state. He was always playing something, and the powers that be in baseball noticed...