Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truly inside joke that would not be caught by anyone without a VCR and an acquaintance with the Lampoon, Principal Skinner receives an airline ticket in an envelope addressed to "Springfield Elementary School, 18 Plympton Street" and when Bart and Lisa discover that Homer's long-lost mother has a collection of phony drivers' licenses, one lists her address as 44 Bow Street...
...researchers have detected very few side effects from sildenafil. In a twist on an old joke, however, a handful of men complained that the medicine gave them headaches. Pfizer researchers are betting that won't prove a strong impediment, and they expect sildenafil to come before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for review by the end of next year...
...Nastase, a little chubbier and wrinklier than when he won every Grand Slam title except Wimbledon, but with the same swinging '70s hairstyle, got the notion to run after a friend persuaded him to join the ruling Social Democracy Party last September. "In the beginning it was a joke," he told Time Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. But now Nastase is addressing the campaign with the full force of his misanthropic charm."I'm 35 years ahead of these people--just my mentality is enough. Who do they think they are?" Apart from honesty, he has few plans...
Madonna: Thank you for saying these compliments [holds up hands]. Please stop with taking sensationalist photographs until I have removed my garments for all to see [laughs]. This is a joke I have made...
...prudent in an article about mistakes in The Crimson to make sure there are no mistakes in that article. The fact that the article ends, "Together, we can actually make The Crimson better than years..." is ironic, to say the least. I hope to God it was a joke...