Word: jokes
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...sufficiently interested to hope it wasn’t a joke, though,” she added...
...Johnny Depp calls Papa. So when Dustin Hoffman comes through town and shows up at the Costes, Coco puts on Harry Nilsson's Everybody's Talkin' (the theme to Hoffman's Midnight Cowboy), sneaks up behind Hoffman and whispers breathily, "Zees eez for yoo." It's their running joke. That's not to say there haven't been setbacks. In the late 1990s, the Costes bought a mansion in the Marais district that they were planning to turn into a five-star hotel with over 100 rooms; instead, they recently sold it to residential real-estate developer Cogedim...
...sounds like a bad joke, or perhaps the world's biggest public-relations challenge. The Russian firm AtomStroyExport (ASE) is trying to sell nuclear reactors to Finland - one of the countries worst affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It's a tough job. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear-power station's No. 4 reactor experienced a massive fire and meltdown, releasing radioactive dust that wafted over Finland. The resulting contamination forced Finnish authorities to slaughter almost a half a million farm animals and restrict fishing in rivers and lakes in central and northern Finland until 1988. Those memories...
...Moore is a joke. We have serious problems to deal with in this country right now, and we have this media hound. If Roy loves America, he'll find some time to do something constructive. We don't have time for this crap. Pat Bossman Virginia...
...recall election. He is the party's pick if the Republican juggernaut succeeds in driving his unpopular boss, Governor Gray Davis, out of office. His main qualifications for the role seem to be a list of things he's not: he's not a millionaire, he's not a joke, and he's not Gray Davis...