Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-intentioned joke ended up bringing hordes of police and firefighters to the Business School yesterday afternoon to remove a bomb--which was in fact a deactivated hand grenade--from a student's mailbox...
...given world enough and time, accidents take on aspects of a plan. But does nature "know" this, or is a grand design the projection of the human brain? The relationship between quirkiness and meaning is the book's dominant theme, perhaps best appreciated in Gould's retelling of the joke about a woman shopping for a large chicken. The butcher puts a two-pounder, his last bird, on the scale. "Not big enough," says the woman. Pretending to weigh a larger one, the butcher presses his thumb on the scale until it reads three pounds. "Fine," says the customer...
...rider to an unrelated bill, with strong prospects of getting a vote. In the Democratic-controlled House, the trade subcommittee of Ways and Means last week approved the bill, and the full committee is expected this week to mark it up for floor action. The procedure, some staffers joke, should take about five minutes...
WETHERBY'S MYSTERY IS NOT "Whodunit?" but "Why did he do it here?"--a bloody good practical joke. A young man shows up at a small dinner party and is graciously assumed to be someone's guest as he mixes with the unctuous ease of an unreconstructed Yuppie. The next day he enters his hostess' warm kitchen, sits, chats ... and shoots his brains onto the stucco wall...
...Arthur laments that she is growing old: "I looked in the mirror and caught a glimpse of myself and almost had a heart attack. There was this old woman staring me in the face." White, after a pause: "Who was it?" Writer-Producer Susan Harris (Soap) created this dehumanized joke machine, which manages to get through its entire 30-minute pilot without a single credible moment...