Word: jokes
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...doors, shipping trucks), he sees the saying “As Wichita falls, so falls Wichita Falls.” The banal idiom represents so much of what the audience will find wrong with this movie: Ramis tries to make a point, but never explains its meaning, and the joke isn’t funny enough to keep repeating. Hopefully, this will flop and Ramis will learn to refuse scripts so far below his past standards...
...Mirecki said. But John Calvert, managing director of the Intelligent Design Network, said the term “mythology” should not be used in connection with intelligent design since it connotes an idea that is unscientific. “These two courses are just a joke. A theologian and an anthropologist have no place in teaching intelligent design,” Calvert said. Both Hoopes and Mirecki cited their experiences at Harvard as very influential in their respective paths at Kansas. Hoopes, a former resident tutor in Dunster House, credited his work with retired Peabody Professor of Archaeology...
...House of Commons took a jovial turn: The Speaker, Peter Milliken, rose in his black robes to announce that an all-party reception would follow the vote to allow Parliamentarians to "exchange season's greetings." The invitation elicited loud guffaws, because everyone knew it was a dark joke. The only thing seasonal about greetings between the ruling Liberal Party and its main, Conservative opposition has been the frostiness of the exchanges. And now the two sides, with a push from minority parties from the left and right, are launching themselves into what is expected to be a cold, long...
...long political career. To describe Le Pen as a “tactless and sometimes foolish old man” would strike the majority of French citizens—of all possible heritages, backgrounds, faiths, and political tendencies—as, at the very least, a very bad joke...
ASTHMA A good joke can be as dangerous as dust or pollen for asthma sufferers. In a new study conducted at New York University, more than 50% of asthma patients reported having an asthma attack after laughing too hard. Flour also emerged as an asthma risk factor. British researchers studying supermarket bakeries found that roughly 15% of the workers developed work-related asthma symptoms, including sneezing, wheezing and difficulty breathing...