Word: jokes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fallen. Wallowing in mediocrity, “Gimme More” isn’t even bad enough to be good. Britney clearly couldn’t care less about this state of affairs, though, which makes you wonder: What keeps her going? Is the video a joke? A cry for help? The most brilliant satirization of our own pop culture yet to date? In raising so many (irrelevant) questions, “Gimme More” is aptly titled. One thing the video decidedly doesn’t offer is any suggestion of a farewell. It?...
...just shocked. I was so unprepared for a man that old to make those kinds of advances towards me, and I had no experience with men and no experience with dating other than a few little child's play situations which were a joke. I didn't really understand the concept of rape, but I did understand the concept that a man had the right to father children with the woman once he had married her. Your salvation, basically, depends on whether your husband wants...
...soldiers joke darkly when they talk about what was left of Iskandariyah's mayor after he was blown up by a powerful roadside bomb called an EFP earlier this month. They have to. The details are so horrible that one either laughs or cries, or falls into that numb, silent stupor known to combat-hardened troops as the thousand-yard stare. They know EFPs are often aimed at them...
...Often in a Kerr movie, love is unspoken, not acted on, as in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (again with Mitchum), whose plot sounds like the first line of a joke - did you hear the one about the Marine and the nun, stranded on a Pacific island? There's the spark of attraction too when she plays the English governess to Yul Brynner's Siamese monarch in The King and I. Shall they dance? Divinely. Consummate their affections? Unthinkable...
...truculence that laughs in the face of convention. As Harvard women, perhaps we can take a page out of this book. Who knows? Maybe we would be objectively uglier, but we would have some self-respect and we would never wear Harvard sweatshirts anymore, not even as a funny joke...