Word: jokes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicago Businessman Gordon Sherman, now 41, was the joke of the auto-parts industry twelve years ago, when he began hiring white-frocked mechanics to install gold-painted Midas mufflers and act like lofty physicians in "treating" croupy exhaust systems. Now the scoffing has given way to awed silence. Last year Sherman's nationwide chain of 460 Midas muffler (and other parts) shops grossed $42 million. This triumph has freed Sherman to pursue myriad private interests-Talmudic scholarship, oboe playing, rare-bird raising, the culture of orchids-and to cure social ailments as well as autos...
...television, fellas. Everything's all right." Aides joke that if protesters ever fail to appear, Wallace would have to hire some. The candidate quips: "They're on our payroll." Or: "They just got me another 1,000,000 votes...
...produce. To save money, each cameo guest is given perhaps dozens of one-liners to recite. Those gags that are not used on one show are preserved on tape, along with an assortment of skits and acts, for use in future shows; they are numbered and filed in a "joke bank" under such headings as "Joke Wall" or "Cocktail Party...
Arlington's Tom Spengler contributes sarcasm to cross country joke sessions and consistent, unspectacular running to meets. Quiet, serious Howie Foye combines with lanky Max Schweizer and "Palo Alto Fats" Enscoe to form a solid supporting cast of sophomores...
...through to reporters or Lords, anyway: "They'd ask joke questions so you'd give joke answers." As John Lennon said. If you can't talk to someone, if your worlds are so far apart that dialogue is meaningless, but some social situation forces you to talk to them why you...put them...