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...people treated it as a joke, but as soon as I saw the card, I knew it could work," Bannon recalled last week. The card had been signed by "Tweeds" Bush in cherry-red ink, presumably to distinguish his signature from those of three lesser stickball officials. Above the names were spaces for descriptive data, such as weight, height, hair and eye color and, most critically, date of birth. Bannon rushed back to his dorm and typed in a fake name ("Everett B. Ford"), address and his team name: the Trojans. He then affixed his school picture as a special...
...After a bunch of choir stuff, principal Fred Dreier gave a speech. I heard phrases like "lived through Hiroshima," "suffered a stroke" and "Jesus Christ, Buddha and Thomas Jefferson," the last of which, sadly, was not the setup to a joke. I am not sure what his speech was about since I was busy crossing out paragraphs from my speech. Then the ESPN guy talked about a "mentally challenged" kid in his high school who had taught him something about something. Again I was busy crossing...
...Pickard's ability to make a joke in the darkest of times is one reason his colleagues were delighted to see him take over the bureau as acting director until President Bush finds a permanent replacement...
...joke. It was a sop to the right wing by Reagan, a plane that was once downed in collision with a white northern pelican. It did some "dumb" - as opposed to the "smart" SGM bombs - bombing in Kosovo, and that's pretty much that plane's total service to nation. Now, hindsight is 20-20 - back then, the Cold War was hot and heavy, and maybe these planes seemed like a good idea then. But in hindsight, it's iffy...
...drink bosses lobbied the Clinton Administration for gum arabic to be exempted. Not surprisingly, they won. Just in case there's a change in that exemption or the supply they depend on dries up, big manufacturers have built up a five-year buffer stock. "Pepsi-Cola is not a joke," says Magid Gadir, general manager of the Khartoum Gum Arabic Processing Co., one of the biggest exporters in the country. "If we stop selling, they have enough to last and they will try seriously for alternatives...