Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old man arrested last week in Branson, Missouri, admitted that he'd lied about finding a hypodermic needle in a Pepsi can "to see what the police department would do." A 62-year-old California woman confessed to police that she fabricated a similar story as a joke on her daughter...
Obviously dissatisifed with present, run-of-the-mill name, Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson) has re-christened himself. The pop star is now insisting that he be referred to as the icon oat left, a symbol he devise, for which there is no pronunciation. "This is not a joke," said his publicist. "This is very serious." If other celebrities follow Prince's lead, we could imminently see the following names on the gossip pages...
...says, lighting his trademark cigar stub. "Not to be." And Elsinore goes boom! But after a while, as the facetious film references (to everything from E.T. to The Seventh Seal pile up, Hero turns into the industry's all-time costliest inside joke. Watching it is as enervating as being on a real movie set. You see all of the sweat and none of the starlight...
Gergen's arrival will bring turmoil in that key indicator of the White House pecking order: office assignments. "Now it really gets ugly," a staff member predicted. The joke was that the big tent going up on the South Lawn for the President's 25th Georgetown class reunion last week was actually a temporary shelter for homeless senior staff. On Saturday, chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty decreed that Gergen will move into the office of former communications director George Stephanopoulos, where the very fashionable shade of gray paint has barely had time to dry. Stephanopoulos, now a senior policy...
...student gave the mug to him, he explains. The two small figurines on another corner of the desk are part of a Wittgenstein joke reference comprehensible only to those in the know, but the humor of a nearby Citizen Goldfarb book, the self-published autobiography of an obscure industrialist, is self-explanatory...