Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier this year of that five-overtime circus. "But after the first overtime, they weren't going to score on me. We had come too far as a team. It was the first time I've felt so confident--especially that year, since we were supposed to be a joke...
...Koppel himself will tell you he takes himself very seriously." Hewitt says. "But I would hope he did the pool as a joke. If it's true. I hope he's laughing at himself...
There have been characters of almost spectacular nonentity who have run for the office of Vice President. William E. Miller, Barry Goldwater's 1964 partner, made a joke of it in an American Express card commercial. Chester A. Arthur had been nothing more than head of the customs house in New York when James Garfield took him onto his ticket. After Garfield's assassination, Arthur made a competent and honest President in a dishonest...
Gremlins is more than a concordance of metaschlock; it never sacrifices the narrative payoff for an in joke. It is as weird as your Uncle Floyd and as embraceable as little Gizmo. It will lure lots of people into the moviehouses and send them out with shivers and smiles. One word of caution though. As you settle into your seat, whatever you do, don't let your arm drape down so it's just above floor level. Because The Gremle-uns'll git you Ef you Don't Watch...
...joke in Britain 40 years ago was that only the thousands of stubby little barrage balloons, tugging at their cables above every spot that might offer a target to low-flying German planes, kept the island from sinking into the sea under the weight of men and machines massing for Dday. London was a kaleidoscope of uniforms: British, Commonwealth, French, Norwegian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, Polish and, of course, American. So many U.S. officers worked around Grosvenor Square that G.I.s walking through the area kept their arms raised in semipermanent salute. In the southern counties, near the coast from which...