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Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaks no punctuation whatsoever because that makes it easier to write and makes it harder to read but who cares and there is less chance that an entire sentence can be blown off in the shop blown off in the shop my is that totally worthless totally inside joke getting tired just like me and just like the guy in Network did you see that over vacation bubby the Atlanta Rhythm Section with Journey and Starcastle at the Orpheum on April 10 at 8 pm did you catch that it was the first listing and you probably missed...

Author: By Read HARRYS Column, | Title: ROCK | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

...MOST PLASTERED JOKE TELLER AWARD: To Norman Mailer '41, who told an incomprehensible zinger with a punch line implicating "one philosopher and two perverts," but still managed to pronounce Cousin, Cousine and Lina Wertmuller with the proper accents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And The Winners (tee, hee) Are... | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

Pierre can feel that something is wrong and needs changing, yet he doesn't quite know how to go about effecting that change. There is a wonderful irony in his choice to take the law into his own hands by staging hold-ups. The joke becomes funnier still when Pierre meets his mistress, Nelly, while trying to rob the post office where she is employed. She faints. He slaps some life back into her and later calls to apologize for the whole incident...

Author: By Joellen Wlodkowski, | Title: Much Better Than All That | 3/29/1977 | See Source »

...gracious hello." (Snort, snort.) "This is installation and repair service, Miss Tomlin speaking clearly into her mouthpiece. Who's calling, please. The A.M.A.? What's that stand for, Anna Maria Alberghetti? Oh, don't get so uptight. It's just a little joke. Not unlike Medicare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...COUPLE OF YEARS AGO some smart publisher came out with a joke book called The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro Agnew--filled with blank pages. Billy Carter doesn't have any of Spiro Agnew's problems. He wasn't vice president (he couldn't even be elected mayor of Plains, Georgia) and when Billy pleaded "no contest" in court it was for selling beer on Sunday. That's the kind of material publishers and other purveyors of presidential pabulum realize people relate to nowadays at the supermarket counter. He's real, they say. "Billy Carter, philosopher-king, America's newest...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Good Ole Cult | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

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