Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to generalize, I would say it's mostly people ages 16-24--a lot of young beer-drinking men who think of it as a joke, and just do it for the hell of it. It's definitely a source of amusement as well as a form of childish regression. But also young kids buy them, especially the hats with bells, largely because they see them around and think it's cool and funky...
...Lampoon openly seeking to proselytize and gain Jester hat converts? "Look, although in one sense the Lampoon is the hotbed of Jester hat ideology, if you want to know the truth, Jester hats are a big practical joke," insists Abound. "There is nothing cool about a Jester hat. I mean, the Jester has gotten a lot of good press, but basically they were a bunch of physically deformed imbeciles. We're going to make money out of it along the way, but the Lampoon is horrified and ashamed at any such movement...
...lawsof the universe, perhaps. But the truth is ugly,the reality nasty, brutish and short: there is noorchestrated Jester hat movement afoot, nosalvation for the downtrodden. As the highpriestess of hip fashion, the Style section of TheNew York Times, out it last week: "Hats havebecome a tease, a joke, a flamboyant gesture, anirreverent comment--an aside from straight up anddown fashions in clothing. Hats do not correspondwith wardrobes but with the spirit of thewearer....A surreal hat is just a quizzicalcommentary on the world--a mental shrugging of theshoulders...
...Market to get some food, and I said to Young Jin, "You know, I have never been to Canada...(pause)...Wouldn't it be so funny if we just drove Bob's car to Canada and came back. Ha!" I guess what I said wasn't taken as a joke because just like that we got on the Mass Pike, and we were on our way to Canada...
...member with the best haircut is Pete Rojas, who plays the bass. Pete has a kind of page-boy haircut, except the ends flip out instead of under. Pete likes to be addressed as Rojas, said in a very syllabic and enunciated way. One time as a joke Pete said he was a prospector. That is a good example of his sense of humor...