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...also mentioned that what the baseball industry is facing as far as government regulation is nothing like what pro wrestling faced in the early '90s. The baseball thing is a joke. This has been a problem in baseball for as long as I can remember. I've got a lot of these guys' rookie cards and if you see the size of their necks and forearms compared to their size when they were first signed, it's pretty obvious that they've got a problem. For some reason everyone else has been under the microscope - wrestling, football, the Olympics...
...with its multitude of real concerts, is a mere ten minutes away. In the mean time, back here, we can do what we do best: watch student groups perform, drink, and then try to act really drunk in front of that girl in our section who laughed at our joke that one time...
...have no idea who might have done this thing," he said. "To me it doesn't look like a joke, obviously, because we were not far from a lethal dose...
Flores said she hopes that the blog, which is being led by the Student Relations Committee, will be "more personalized" than its predecessor. In addition to previews and summaries of UC meetings, it will include profiles of UC members and "joke posts" about Flores' love of lolcats...
Such developments left the New York Times - which that year ran a story headlined IN SMALL TOWN, U.S.A., WOMEN'S LIBERATION IS EITHER A JOKE OR A BORE - in the awkward position of identifying Gloria Steinem as "Miss Steinem, editor of Ms. magazine." At that point, even the late language guru William Safire called for surrender. The Times refused on the grounds that the title had not passed into common usage. "We reconsider it from time to time," the editors mused, but "to our ear, it still sounds too contrived for news writing." Only in 1986 did the Times relent...