Word: jokes
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...year old Russian joke has Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev having a smoke with U.S. President Richard Nixon and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Nixon produces a steel cigarette case inscribed with the words "To our leader, from the GOP." Giscard opens a silver case bearing the simple inlay "To my dear Valery." Brezhnev shrugs and flips open a massive gold case, with the inscription set in diamonds: "To our beloved Czar Nicolas II, from the grateful Russian gentry...
...this some kind of joke? What's with your machine...
Paul Gilligan, my brother Daniel Seltzer and I used to joke, was the ultimate “golden boy.” It was an expression Dan and I had coined at Harvard, mostly for Paul, to describe someone who was the apple of his family’s eye, someone who carried the hopes of many on his shoulders, and someone who wore his enormous potential with a winning smile and an easy heart. He was the kind of person who, when he shook his hair, sent a shower of soft light into the world...
...waved off an introduction by Summer School Dean Robert A. Lue with a self-deprecating joke about economists. When widespread laughter did not ensue, Summers waited for a few seconds before adding, “Think about that for a minute...
...Lincoln enlists in a militia during the Black Hawk War but sees no fighting. He would later joke about his time in combat: "I fought, bled, and came away ... I had a good many bloody struggles with the musquetoes...