Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wildlife representatives at the meeting, and at one point, during a discussion about predators, Watt made no effort to conceal his strong feelings that coyotes should be largely killed off. "Maybe we can get Mrs. Reagan to wear a coyote coat," he said in a clumsy effort at a joke, noting that trappers and bounty hunters would get more business. The wildlife men winced...
There are a lot of things to remember about the 1980-81 Harvard hockey season. As the old joke says, first the good news...
...also insists, however, that she auditioned for the conducting position as a joke, never believing she would beat out four competing males to win the spot. "I hadn't done anything like this since I'd come to Harvard, and I was very nervous," she says. In fact, James E. Ross '81, the orchestra's present conductor who knew her from her month of Bach Society membership, had to convince her to take the audition, which involved an interview with a panel of BSO members and a fifteen minute stint with the orchestra...
...preliminary wrestling and light biting, just like Alex Comfort recommends. Except for the gentleman from the Times, who wanted to know my feelings about the Laffer Curve, everybody wants to talk about sex. All that locker-room chortling about my "mission of love," "my furry virility" and that old joke about "pandaring" by zoo officials...
...joke is hardly funny, but this is the sort of humor the Law School Show peddles. A group of law students, most in their third year, take time off from their legal studies to write, direct, and stage a musical comedy for their classmates. Outsiders will find many parts of the show entertaining, but there is nothing inherently witty in the references to casebooks and legal Latin, which get so many guffaws from the in-house crowd. The show exploits little more than the nervous excitement generated by those drawn away from their study cells and their own casebooks. They...