Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year, however, the joke may be on the team that treats Columbia too lightly. The Lions are an improved football team, and although improvement to them may consist of getting beat by only two touchdowns instead of the customary three, they're at least on the right track...
...Kirk Douglas, maybe, or Montgomery Clift), and it is a western. I do know that it was lifted from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and that the great Japanese director was so angered by the Hollywoodization of his classic that he made Yojimbo to satirize the genre, and particularly the joke of American-individualist hero myths...
...Vice President is presiding over the Senate. Where else could I have Barry Goldwater addressing me as 'Mr. President?' " A Barry Goldwater offering: "The other day I phoned the White House, got the Oval Office on the President's private line, told one of my best jokes and the only one who laughed was Jack Anderson." Every Republican member of Congress will be asked to contribute to the joke book, but one R.N.C. staffer allows that "probably some of them won't have anything funny to offer." Mirabile dictu...
...more expensive to develop than Middle Eastern crude, so even a dip of a dollar or two in the world oil price, to $11 or $12 per bbl., could render the oil from some fields unprofitable. Says Oil Expert John Lichtblau: "It's no wonder that the industry joke at the moment has Harold Wilson joining Britain to OPEC and asking for a rise in the price...
...Scotland's most important liquid asset these days is not whisky but oil. From the Shetland Islands (noted for knitwear and shaggy ponies) in the north, to Peterhead, Edinburgh and Glasgow, oil is becoming Scotland's biggest industry. Already it is creating jobs, money and humor. One joke about the high pay of Scottish oil workers: "Did you hear that one of the welders married a commoner...