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...company faced a cash-flow crisis in the early 1990s, he took them all to Las Vegas, gave each of them about $100 (from two cartoonish bags painted with dollar signs) to gamble away, ostensibly to help earn money for end-of-the-year bonuses. It was a joke, but one that made light of a stressful situation...
...controversial rape case has turned into the latest pop culture fad: Young boys strut around in “Free Kobe” merchandise as if rooting for a team. Internet surfers wage online votes on whether the woman is lying. Talk show hosts joke about the woman’s failed American Idol bid. And as the craze grows, the public’s implicit attitude toward sexual assault has been undermined. People have made a mockery out of a very serious allegation, and their conduct will certainly leave a lasting impact...
...with a nice Italian girl. After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, he moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents? Fugghedaboutit. Mambo Italiano is a mess. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes and tell what could have been a winning story...
...honest, high school soccer is kind of a joke,” Nicholas said...
Published books: Zero. Biologists publish in journals, not books (unlike God, which is why, according to the joke, He was turned down for a grant at the National Science Foundation...