Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Smith, described by another comedian as "a large Kentucky Fried Chicken of a man", was the evening's sole professional stand-up comic. "He was hilarious," said Maye I. Chen '92. Fellow Freshman Rebecca D. Knowles agreed. "He could make a bad joke and completely resurrect it, getting everyone to laugh...
...flinging them down to the shoreline. Workmen had noticed that huge chunks of an aluminum grillwork under the span had been mysteriously disappearing for two days. The apparent motive: selling the metal for scrap. City officials estimate that repairing the damage will cost $37,000. That's no joke...
...Every time someone fires a phaser, it costs $3000," Fries said to the Lamont Forum audience. "Once as a joke, I put in the script: '1000 space monkeys attack the Enterprise with phasers.' I got a phone call very quickly about that...
Students said they were surprised by Stanford Business School's ninth-place finish. "It's a joke," said John Sage, a second-year Harvard student, who added that the quality of a Stanford education is comparable to that of Harvard...
...most appropriate Election Night parable for the demoralized Democrats comes from the comic strips, even though for the Dukakis camp it is no laughing matter that the party has now lost five of the past six presidential elections. In Peanuts there is a running joke that every time Charlie Brown races forward to kick a football, Lucy grabs it away at the last second and he takes a pratfall. The humor, of course, lies in Charlie Brown's earnest belief that despite the implacable evidence of history, this time will somehow be different, and the pigskin will finally go sailing...