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...Deciding that time was of the essence, he asked her anyway--with a ring to boot. When Megan Henry saw the ring, a makeshift wedding band molded from a York Peppermint Patty wrapper, she laughed, "Are you serious...Is this a joke...

Author: By Dana M. Scardigli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Campus Life to Man and Wife | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

...told him a joke involving mucus,” Keillor deadpanned to the crowd. “The timing was perfect.... I made our class intellectual exhale tapioca, great noodles of tapioca...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Honor Society Inducts New Members | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

...Indeed, during his time working for Letterman, O’Donnell was responsible for introducing the idea of the top-ten list and instituting the practice of repeating the same joke over and over again, rephrasing it in as many ways as possible. It was an idea that his brother says he got from a joke book they read as children and one that Letterman still uses today...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Funny Thing Happened at Harvard | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

Michael Dertouzos, director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, believes computers should adopt human-like qualities. They should understand our banter, joke with us, read us e-mails and, if an experiment under way in Hong Kong is any example, do a whole lot more. One2Free, a cellular service run by telecoms firm PCCW, has created a game world populated by four virtual girls: Alice, Angel, Ron and Veron. It's kind of a Tamogotchi for the home-alone-on-a-Friday-night crowd: through the cell phone, you sweet-talk the cybervixens into dates or out of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 101 Pixels of Fun | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...really simple joke that used to make us laugh hysterically: What did the big rose say to the little rose? Hiya bud. It happened to hit us as hilariously funny one day, and Freddy got detention for disturbing the dining room," he says...

Author: By Alexander B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pursued By A Monstrous Image Of His Own Creation | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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