Word: jokes
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...common symbol for Ireland’s rebirth after the Anglo-Irish War. The interior of the Landing is bathed in a warm red and features authentic wooden walls. The Galway-born bartender, Niamh (rhymes with ‘Bev’—no joke), told of the St. Paddy’s Day festivities: an honest-to-goodness bagpipe band will follow a showing of the John Ford classic The Quiet Man (John Wayne is just dreamy in his dramatic roles). The Landing is a fun place and its omnipresent Irish paraphernalia adds to the atmosphere...
...paid nothing, but are instead expected to use their influence to extort money from local business owners and politicians. Inday Espina-Varona, chairwoman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and editor in chief of the newsweekly Philippine Graphic, says, "In the provinces, there's a standing joke: 'When you get hired as a journalist, you won't need a salary. Why? Because you have a press card...
...TIME Archives Online Heroin, cocaine, speed, pot, ecstasy. TIME has reported on all those drugs and others for more than 80 years, bringing the harsh reality of usage and addiction to our readers. "Coke is no joke," we pointed out in our July 6, 1981, cover story, "High on Cocaine." TIME's article detailed the pervasiveness of use by middle-class Americans and quoted an initiate as saying, "After one hit of cocaine I feel like a new man. The only problem is, the first thing the new man wants is another hit." Subscribers can read that report in full...
...Miles Rind) reveal the intimate comedy that occurs between two men who know each other all too well. Maintaining the understatement of the production, the vocalists were careful not to play their humor over-the-top, coaxing the audience members to feel like they were part of an inside joke...
...chair Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06 says that Glazer and he joke about how they spend more time in meetings than in class...