Word: joking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Daniel Williams should single out the Springboks for being "brutal." After all, both the South Africans and the New Zealanders were originally taught this game by Scottish Presbyterians. The dour Scots obviously never fathomed the English humor in the ridiculous 16-man scrum. It was all meant as a joke, to keep robust adolescent schoolboys occupied during winter - when they could not play cricket. Deon Thom George, South Africa
...nationwide use as fodder for amusement—surfing the Facebook. This spring, the duo aims to release a facetious guidebook for the popular social networking Web site created by Harvard dropout Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006. The book, Lushing said, will feature joke pieces, satires, urban legends, and “fictional and fanciful” anecdotes. “The book is like a Facebook number from the Harvard Lampoon,” said Lushing, a former member of the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish...
...hired two of them—comedian Zach Galifianakis and musician Will Oldham—to pick up a camera and goof off on a farm (tractors, rapping along, silly costumes, etc.). My mom called about a week ago to say that she had confused this middle school joke of a video for the real one, and that she thought someone as successful Kanye West would have put more money into it. I guess the irony worked. Kenny Chesney "Don't Blink" Dir. Shaun Silva From the great expanses of middle America comes a guy who probably has more real...
...best friends from high school and I always like to reminisce about our AP Literature class and how much of a joke it was. It was our teacher’s first and last year in a public school, and she assigned too many books, which I suppose wasn’t really a problem—we didn’t read most of them. Ironically enough, the only one that I—one of just two black males in the class—ended up reading was Jewish author Bernard Malamud’s 1957 novel...
...long time ago, when the Soviet Union was beginning to shatter, a Russian friend cracked a joke, and I doubled up laughing on a snowy street in Moscow. "I wish I could smile the way you Americans do," he said. I asked why he couldn't. He said he'd been trained by his parents never to show emotions in public. A stray smile could be misinterpreted, could mean the Gulag. I realized then that my reaction to his joke had been a political statement - a reflexive demonstration of my freedom. I thought about that when the laughter began...