Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pushmepullyou," if you didn't know, is a two-headed animal from the Dr. Doolittle stories; the Doctor is less a weird joke than a serious point of reference for GBV's achievements. Like the miraculous veterinarian, GBV main guy Robert Pollard has a respect for the diverse beasts of the rock and roll jungle that lets him get them to do his bidding. Like Dr. Doolittle, Pollard can convince animals that would normally be at each other's throats--a two-chord, thumping stomp, say, and its natural enemy, a spiraling, self-involved vocal line--to team...
...joke is that we should be able to get tax write-offs for the pay cut we took. After all, the money went to Harvard," Power says...
...sure that there was a package,"O'Connor said. "It could be somebody's idea of avicious joke...
Sean's conversation-stopper--"what do you think about Harvard women?"--was a running joke by the time we hit Baltimore. He had a whole tongue-in-cheek spiel to go with...
...organization that the student body perceives as a running joke can't do much in the way of effecting change. And if students fail to take the council seriously, they won't support the council's efforts, and they won't acknowledge its accomplishments. As the trend toward jadedness continues, fewer and fewer of the well-intentioned will actually...