Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amidst surrounding poverty is easy only if one justifies it with a belief that he is doing something to deserve it, something that makes privilege worthwhile. But Calcutta's intelligentsia seem out of touch with the people they see around them, and they feel their estrangement. There's a joke about the economists charged with increasing India's food production and improving distribution: none of them have ever seen a grainfield in their lives, or even bought their own groceries...
David Stockman's Party Joke Book...
...Reynolds Aluminum, who've been recycling aluminum all year not only to help Jerry's kids, but also to achieve energy independence for America. There's ERA Realty, and there's 7-Up, and Cross Pens. Every time a CEO comes out on stage, he makes the same small joke. "I've got a little check here Jerry...for $2.6 million." They smile sweetly while Lewis grins maniacally, they dutifully promise to raise even more next year and yea unto the generations, and then they trot off stage while Ed McMahon, the world's only professional introducer, welcomes the next...
Along with the rest of the tugs and barges, the Cavalier anchors with her nose running into the wind. For a couple of weeks the crew will lounge and fish from the deck, staring at water so cold that, as oldtimers joke, the only reason for wearing a life preserver is to help rescuers spot the body. Meanwhile, on a gravel causeway 1½ miles away, workers prepare to unload Kardonsky's steel cathedral. Welders will separate the buildings from the barge decks. Transferred to the sort of crawlers that carry space rockets to launch pads, the buildings will...
What you mean, how old am I? About one hundred! But Viennese answer is better: we say, "I keep passing the open windows." This is an old joke. There was a street clown called King of the Mice: he trained rodents, he did horoscopes, he could impersonate Napoleon, he could make dogs fart on command. One night he jumped out his window with all his pets in a box. Written on the box was this: "Life is serious but art is fun!" I hear his funeral was a party. A street artist had killed himself. Nobody had supported...