Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like in W.W. II guys used the Ml, a. Browning automatic rifle, grenades, some machine guns and a bazooka to knock out tanks, if they were close enough. Like 20 ft., our drill instructor said. That's sort of a joke. Well, the M-16 is a lot easier to handle than the Ml, and it can be used after dark. It's got a night scope that can pick up targets a mile away using infra-red light. And you should see what we have instead of the old bazooka. First there...
Linquist. who later said he thought it was someone wearing a costume as a joke, pursued the animal in his bus but it disappeared back into the forest and was not seen again...
...into the bogus poetry of "SIN...the original." It's a title that pokes fun at cliche by blowing it up, flaunting it, the way pop art does, as though it were profound. It works on the principle that the inverse of any cliche may well be a joke, since the essence of a cliche is predictability, while the punch line of a joke arises from the inappropriateness of a response to a situation. Rearrange a cliche or put it where it doesn't belong, and it becomes perversely funny, knocking your sense of normalcy out of kilter. But there...
...become a government official, courtier and diplomat under three successive monarchs - Edward II, Edward III and Richard II. He was at least briefly a soldier, and while fighting in France under the Black Prince, he was captured, then ransomed for ?16. The smallness of this sum is a favorite joke among Chaucerians, but it amounts to $3,840 in modern terms, by Gardner's computation, and probably was only part of the ransom paid. In a time of famine, plague, constant war, baronial feuding and serious peasant uprisings, the poet lived to be nearly 60 - which...
...cancel their last concert, but promise to make this a performance Boston will long remember!" That's what the ad in the Phoenix said--ha, ha. Procol Harum with Flora Purim and Airto will be at the Harvard Square Theater on May 17 at 7 and 10:30. A joke for our Jewish readers: "Every time she says 'Haman"..." (That joke was sent in by a lonely inmate of a nameless prison in Southeastern Massachusetts...