Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought about it as a big joke," Moshe Gershovich said of their bid. But he said that he was thrilled when PBHA officials notified them of the bid's success and added that the car runs "beautifully...
There is one really good joke in Jacques Derrida's Cinders. It takes some setting up. When he published the French texts Feu la Cendre and "Animadversions" (one on the left side of the page, the other on the right-- this is the kind of thing Derrida is always doing), he was asked to do a tape recording of the text...
...much repeated Soviet joke, an elderly Russian emigrant applies to re- enter his homeland. Under "Place of birth" on the form he writes, "St. Petersburg." Under "Left the country from?" he enters, "Petrograd." Under "Destination?" he puts, "Leningrad." Finally, under "Where would you like to settle?" he puts, "St. Petersburg...
Sometimes the communist rulers revised their pantheon of heroes and cities as politics changed: Stalingrad, originally Czaritsin, became Volgograd after Joseph Stalin's crimes were made public in the 1960s. (Another Soviet joke: After the change from Stalingrad was announced, the Kremlin supposedly received a cable that read, I CONCUR WITH THE CRITICISM OF THE COMRADES. SIGNED: JOSEPH VOLGIN...
...grand schemers forgot to consider that all most Americans want is the highlights video. The Olympic wrap-up before the "Tonight Show" is quite enough for us. The joke is no longer on the East German judges. This year it's on the media handlers and spin-doctors...