Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, many didn't find the joke funny. With the white stuff piled up along the roadside, Harvard's spring athletes sat in their dorm rooms gazing out into the Winter wonderland while thoughts of postponements and indoor practices flooded their minds...
...Vice President Al Gore '69 yesterday, in a joke to the Gridiron Club of Washington D.C., on Bill Clinton's pre-accident attitude toward attending the club's annual lampoon dinner. Gore stood in for the President, who is recuperating from surgery to repair a knee tendon, which he tore earlier this week in a staircase stumble...
Cavanaugh says she and her husband, Philip Gschwend, a professor of environmental organic chemistry at MIT, joke about winning the lottery so they could avoid the tedium of writing research grant proposals...
...diatribe against the paper in a press conference. Jones claimed the daily was practicing "the most irresponsible form of journalism" and was the victim of a hoax by a "person [who] has it in" for the paper. He relayed his client's reaction as, "Well, there's a practical joke every week." Later, Jones told TIME the disclosure was "very clever. We can't deny it, and we can't admit it." The protestations came even as defense and prosecution said the revelations would have no effect on the trial. Still, Jones says he will ask for an inquiry...
...plastic devices favored by modern mass murderers. Why not buy machines that can actually detect bombs? Too expensive, the airlines say, as if airplanes were cheap. And of course nothing reveals the purely ceremonial nature of airport security like the long-standing rule against telling bomb-related jokes in the vicinity of an X-ray machine. Has anyone ever been killed by a bomb-related joke, or even injured...