Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, we must ask whether the council is the extracurricular joke many students perceive it to be. If not--if the council does achieve results--then we should ask what the council can do to align its image with its reality. In other words, what must it do to convince us that it is, in fact, a legitimate and worthwhile...
...Undergraduate Council is not the joke it is perceived to be. It has many dedicated and hard-working members who genuinely want to effect change. But until it wriggles its way out of its home-spun web of hubris, it will never earn the respect it deserves...
...stopped dating--some writers say because DeGeneres was uncomfortable with overtly heterosexual story lines, although she says she simply wasn't interested in doing a show that focused on relationships. As it happens, the code working title of the coming-out script, The Puppy Episode, is an in-joke reference to one of the lamer attempts to juice up the show: an executive's suggestion--DeGeneres won't say whose--that the show's creative problems might be solved if Ellen Morgan got a puppy...
...amusing when Beep and Kitty call their neighbors and bark into the phone. It's even amusing when Kitty decides to send poison gas through the pipes, attempting to kill everyone in the building. But none of it's amusing for very long, since the same basic joke is repeated relentlessly...
...tell when Beep and Kitty are lying or being serious. But then how do Beep and Kitty's obscure epiphanies about dying ("you go to a garden full of flowers") and other intangibles fit in with anything? For a comedy which ultimately revolves around one, oft-repated joke, the play asks a few more questions than it ends up answering...