Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morning they strap the baby into the high chair with a handful of Cheerios on the tray, then stay alert for the sound of his choking while they take a two-minute shower. They consider a week at their in-laws' a vacation and joke that they live at the Target store. They drive a big car not because they haul a lot of lumber but because it gives them a fleeting sense of control. Everything changes when they become parents--when life gets both richer and harder, and everything becomes a trade-off, and the self is no longer...
...then, of course, are the magazine's swipes at the egos of students. The sketch begins with the statement that Harvard students "want you to know they're the best. That four-letter word crops up a lot in their conversation..." It also includes the familiar joke about the number of Harvard students it takes to change a light bulb (Answer: One, who holds the bulb while the world revolves around...
...problem. Repeat your call for prisoners to work 40 hours a week to help compensate their victims--and then move quickly to the drug epidemic. Recall Clinton saying that if he had to do it over again, he'd inhale. And before he can say he was only joking, say it for him, "That's the problem, Mr. President. You have the bully pulpit, and you joke about drugs." Don't forget to quote Democrats like Representative Charles Rangel, who has said, "I've been in Congress for over two decades and I've never seen a President who cares...
...know who wrote this," said Lifan Yang '99, a Chinese-American living in Dunster House. "I feel that [the protest] is just a joke. People were just reading it and laughing...
Police speculate that someone slipped the GHB into Farias' soft drinks when she was not looking, either as a joke or out of more prurient motives. GHB overdoses are a growing problem: more than 100 suspected cases have been reported over the past several months in Texas, Florida and California. Most teenagers seem to take "Liquid X," as it is sometimes called, to get high. But GHB is also known on the street as "Easy Lay," and authorities fear it may be taking the place of Rohypnol, the tranquilizer that made headlines last year as the "date-rape drug...