Word: jokes
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...myopic. I ran a humiliating three for 11 in major categories as I picked them on the day of the nominations - no, please don't look. I even lost an impromptu bet, as the evening began, on how long Martin would wait on this pained occasion before cracking a joke. Correct answer: about 15 seconds. "I am really glad they cut back on the glitz," the he said, glancing back at the lavish stage set. "That'll send 'em a message...
...least successful tales are the one-joke pieces like "God," where the Almighty appears to a "painfully average" office drone in the guise of a fat man floating on air. The joke is that God appears as a fat man. Snooze-ville. A sharp editor would have axed it in favor of expanding some of the other stories that seem under-developed. "Cake," for example, about a disgruntled teacher who starts sharing urine-spiked cakes with his co-workers, strains to keep its head above the quicksand of the central sick joke. Only at the end does it start...
...someone is so egregiously in violation of 17 U.N. resolutions, the notion of international law or world opinion is a joke,” said Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom...
...arranged on that phone. Now, however, I am one of the only people in my college social circle whose cell phone number does not grace her e-mail signature (along with a campus address, room phone number, personal website address, favorite quote, favorite quote in its original language, a joke, a recipe and mother’s maiden name). Heck, I don’t even have a signature, and boy, do my e-mails look bland...
Kristin E. Kitchen ’03 is an History of Art and Architecture concentrator living in Winthrop House. Her campus phone number is 3-3333. No joke! And please don’t get her started on those people who use headset phones...