Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the Illinois bank robber who wore a Bob Dole mask? As the Tonight Show's Jay Leno put it, "The guy was smart. He could have picked any mask he wanted...but he wanted to be sure he didn't draw a crowd." It's a good joke, but is it news? Americans under 30 think so. Regular network-news viewership among 18-to-29-year-olds has plunged--from 36% to 22% during the past year alone. And 40% of these young adults said they brushed up on politics via late-night...
...discretion and defend lawsuits. Yet trying to write detailed regulations about what is permissible between boys and girls during their most chaotic years and when, where and in what quantity any drugs may be taken on school grounds makes drafting the Code of Federal Regulations look easy. Remember the joke about Chelsea's having the school nurse call her father when she needed an aspirin? The real punch line wasn't that her mother was too busy, but that at schools these days, an adult would no more give a child an unauthorized pain reliever than a vial of crack...
...that Halloween deadline approaches, consider your options carefully. You could go to a Gothic second-rate school in a town whose name itself--New Haven--is a cruel joke. Or you could go here. You could sacrifice any claim to fame and fortune. Or you could go here. It's an easy choice, really. As Dean Fitzsimmons will append to the bottom of your early acceptance letter, Hope you'll join...
...thought it was friends of mine, and I thought it was a joke until I saw the knife," he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity...
...friends, especially if a person is in recovery. It's entirely possible that a roommate or friend takes Zoloft or Prozac to control depression. My girlfriend does. It's also possible somebody you know takes Ventalin or Aerobid for asthma. When's the last time you heard a Ventalin joke? Mental illness is a disease, not a disgrace. Remember that. Tab>--Pete O'Connor...