Word: joking
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...wine-country joke has it that the surest way to turn a large fortune into a small one is to buy a vineyard. Perhaps so, but there seems to be an endless supply of multimillionaires whose ideal of a little place in the country is a boutique winery on Napa County's Howell Mountain or Rutherford Bench. Twenty-five years ago, the county had a scant two dozen wineries; today there are more than 200, and about a dozen more are on the drawing boards...
...destiny's joke," says one of his few remaining loyalists. "It seems we planted the ideal of independence so deep that now these countries are trying to win their independence from each other." Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador go their...
Mikhail Gorbachev deserves a hand for being able to laugh at his troubles, but he may want to consider clearing his jokes with other targets of his humor, especially if one of them is the President of France. As the Soviet leader left a session of the Russian parliament last week, he stopped to tell reporters a self-deprecating joke that also featured Francois Mitterrand and George Bush. "They say that Mitterrand has 100 lovers. One has AIDS, but he doesn't know which one," Gorbachev said. "Bush has 100 bodyguards. One is a terrorist, but he doesn't know...
...joke appeared in newspapers around the world. In France, however, where Mitterrand's private life is the stuff of gossip but is rarely discussed in print, discretion prevailed. Agence France-Presse, which is subsidized by the government, carried the joke on its wires but in a bowdlerized version picked up from the Soviet media. No mention was made of Bush or Mitterrand, whose names were substituted by "a President...
...really just for the joke that this boob had a position where he could possibly make a mistake and destroy the world," Simon said...