Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women. But that was not a problem, since there were so few women. Ninety percent of the time, none were within hearing distance. This absence was recognized by many of the traders, and while most did not seem to think about it one way or another, some would joke that it "enabled the men to concentrate." I for one could not see how any one woman could hope to work in that situation and feel comfortable...
...felonious fellatious activity with a hooker named Divine Brown, it was inevitable that late-night talk-show host Jay Leno would crack wise ("Welcome to Hollywood, or, as Hugh Grant calls it, Tonsiltown!"). But deep into July, Grant's peccadillo is still front-page news and late-night joke fodder. Last week, as he dutifully kept four talk-show dates in the U.S. to promote his new comedy, Nine Months, he was also a reluctant nightly guest on David Letterman's Top 10 list. Least Popular Summer Drink No. 6: "Hugh Grant's Backseat Snapple...
...race also gives Powell license to recognize and even joke about the ethnic differences in America in the face of both tiresome political correctness and simmering racial hatred. In his San Diego speech he parodied a pompous white military officer speaking in empty and orotund phrases. Then he mimicked a black sergeant talking about the coming war in the Persian Gulf: "We gonna kick butt and go home." Describing an encounter with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at his White House treaty signing with Yasser Arafat, Powell put on a New York Jewish accent. And he even worked around...
...million) the Bulls and Blackhawks incurred in constructing the facility," says Steve Schanwald, vice president of marketing for the Bulls. Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the N.F.L.'s Washington Redskins, is so enamored of luxury boxes--and the Washington lobbyists are so eager to buy them--that the joke around the Beltway is that the new Redskins stadium, which is planned for Landover, Maryland, will have 850 luxury boxes, with a handful of standing-room spaces left over for normal people...
...ghosts of the past. George Vukovich stood where Rocky Colavito once stood. The 5,000 people rattling around the 74,208-seat Temple of Doom looked as if they wanted to wipe the stupid grin off the face of Chief Wahoo, the mascot whose very name was a cruel joke both to Native Americans and to Cleveland fans. There was talk of moving the franchise somewhere else, somewhere nice...