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...Images of Cleopatra's great loves and political allies, Caesar and Antony, are included in the exhibition, but perhaps more interesting than any sculpted head is a joke in stone dating from 34 B.C. Inscribed in Greek on a basalt statue base found at Alexandria is a reference to "Antony, the Great, lover without peer." The text, says Higgs, contains a pun relating to the "Association of Inimitable Livers," which Plu- tarch wrote was a group established by the high-living Antony and Cleopatra in cosmopolitan Alexandria. Antony the inimitable liver became Antony the inimitable lover, both in the brothels...
...long list of favorable reviews gathered on her website, SUSANNAH MCCORKLE included this one: "'She sings in tune.'--her dentist, New York City." This was pure Susannah, looking for the joke behind the self-seriousness, the pin in the balloon of pretension. Years before she was a performer, she was a writer (one early piece of fiction was included in Prize Stories 1975: The O. Henry Awards), and becoming a singer was, she once told me, merely the result of "thinking it was a really cool thing to do." Few of us will ever chase a dream so fruitfully...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Apologizes for "joke" about bedding certain celebs. Heard the one about the libel suit...
Jimmy Durante told this joke...
...political joke goes like this: Anybody under 30 who isn’t a Democrat has no heart, but anybody over 30 who isn’t a Republican has no brain. I have no quarrel with the second half of that statement (although I wish people would attain political enlightenment at a younger age). The first bit bothers me, though. It’s a perfect example of the false perception that Republicans are a cabal of heartless millionaires who don’t give a damn about anything but their bank accounts...