Word: joke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MAYBE life is just an elaborate joke that everyone is in on but you. Maybe when you turn around, everything behind you disappears. Maybe English is just a gibberish language that only you really understand. Maybe reality is just a dream...
...built in their place. "They're garbage," says architect Kevin Cozen. "These houses look like somebody stood there with a bag of frosting and just splattered it wherever they felt like it." The effect, not surprisingly, is that of a stage set. "I think the Spelling house is a joke," Cozen adds. "It's not a French manor. This is America in 1989. Someone like Aaron Spelling should be helping humanity by having people design things that will move the culture forward...
...might not be the most original joke in stand-up comedy, but it drew hysterical laughter Saturday afternoon at the Business School when the South Boston pre-schooler told it to 600 children during the second annual "Boston Happening," a day-long festival sponsored by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston...
...duty. Amero, who worked under Hazelwood as second mate from 1980 through 1982, is suing Exxon for $2 million in damages in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Charging that Hazelwood's "abuse and harassment" caused him to suffer a nervous breakdown, Amero has testified that a bad joke had been making the rounds in the Exxon fleet: "Where Joe Hazelwood is captain, Jack Daniel's is the chief mate...
...months the parties negotiated over a 30-ft.-across round table for unprecedented political freedoms. "Why a 30-ft. table?" went a Polish joke making the rounds as the talks got under way. Answer: "Because the world spitting record is only 15 ft." In the end, however, the two sides managed to craft a new political order intended to save their country from economic ruin and social chaos...