Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history and used as the prop of a thousand Washington toastmasters searching for a cheap laugh over the past 120 years. Humorist Bob Orben says the name is melodic ("Chester Arthur doesn't make it"), and Hayes' dim place in the national chronicle makes him fodder for almost any joke. Washington visitor at the Hayes Inauguration in 1877: "Who was that man in front of you on the stand with his hand raised?" Senator: "I didn't catch his name...
...tool than a genuinely significant embellishment of what was still a perfectly enjoyable film. Lucas now claims to be happy with "about 80%" of Star Wars--and annoyed with purists who resent his mucking about with a classic. After all, Star Wars is his movie. "The only thing I joke about now is it would be fun--and we can't do this for another 10 years or so--to go back and digitize the entire movie and clean it up. But that's such a subtle, subtle thing." Perhaps then he'll be able to do something about Mark...
...White Sut, who keeps a sow bear on a chain and beats the animal daily with a fence post. One day the bear breaks the chain, pulls off White Sut's head, and leaves it in the middle of the main road. This is widely regarded as a good joke. So is a courtroom altercation (12 dead, including the judge) in which Zeke tries earnestly to kill another lowbrow Beck. "Why dammit, I thought I had Davie choked all the way dead," he says, amazed to see a man he had just spent 10 minutes strangling rise up and wander...
...reactions. But laughter--that's really the key. Everyone that I have shown this forwarded e-mail to has laughed, and then commented on how awful it was. Sure, maybe it is funny. But humor is not always good. Just what is it that is so funny? Jokes certainly spring up quickly, and are usually tasteless, but this joke is far from just that, for it clearly illustrates the divide between the haves and have-nots...
Tonight there will be no letting up as the Crimson encounter Michael Jordan (no joke) for the first time. The Penn freshman has been eating up the Ivies just like his namesake, garnering Rookie of the Week honors four times...