Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Silber said his statement during the board of trustees meeting was a joke. "You can't explain a joke," he added...
...work, for example, is accomplished in committee, not on the House floor. A visitor to the gallery is usually startled to find two-thirds of the seats empty; a transcendent tedium often reigns. As half a dozen members attend to the debate at hand, others read, amble, joke or even doze. It is not beyond the frontiers of possibility that a member might show up drunk, or threaten to punch another member. Into such an atmosphere, TV cameras would arrive like censorious missionaries landing on a pagan island...
Citizens of Communist states are well aware that their rulers give only lip service to Marxism's egalitarian ideals. But all they can do is complain and joke. One popular story in the Soviet Union tells of Party Boss Brezhnev inviting his mother to his elegant villa in the Crimea. He shows her the lavish furnishings, his yachts, art treasures and the fleet of foreign cars he has received as gifts from visiting heads of state. After a table-groaning banquet, he asks: "Well, Mama, what do you think? Not bad for your little boy?" To which the old woman...
...help me, that's in there, on page 232. And it isn't supposed to be a joke. But anyone who has seen my tennis serve will tell you that the verb lash is not the one most people use. The last time my neck cords were straining is an event lost in the mists of memory...
...fuck do you do? And what can you do? In all seriousness, come down my neighborhood, what can you do? There's a gym. How many times a week can you play basketball before it becomes ridiculously boring? The high school's a dive, it's a serious joke, you don't learn shit. Your parents are basically working class, are basically going to work, coming home, going to sleep. They're happy that they're clothing you and feeding you. They don't take you down to the amusement park or the zoo on Sundays or take you skiing...