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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Freshmen have eagerly examined each of the Houses, particularly while drinking and peeing in their courtyards. Some superstitious first-years even sent flaming boats down the Charles, like that’s some sort of joke. Right, sure, flaming boats are funny. How about, we all remember the MAINE! How quickly we forget...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Blocking: It Defines You. Forever. | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...middle of decrying the misdeeds of the financial firm AIG, President Barack Obama cracked a joke. "Excuse me," he said Monday, after coughing into the microphone. "I am choked up with anger here." There were laughs all around the gilded East Room of the White House because he didn't sound angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's AIG Outrage: All Talk, No Action | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...juries made up of regular people can make decisions about complex problems with integrity and without any vested interests - qualities the Team feels carry more weight than does the experience of being a member of the political establishment. (The name also, of course, may reflect its founder's narcissistic joke: Judge and Jury Team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's New American Idol Political Party | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...know what is funny? Pretending your pet lives in Communist Russia. Hilarious (unless you once lived in Communist Russia). You could take a picture of your cat eating cat food and pretend it was dinnertime at the gulag. Or if you have an unusually small kitten, you could joke about robbing it of its childhood and training it as an Olympic gymnast. But where would one find a website dedicated to such a strange, esoteric joke? If only one existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Lolcats | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

Rolcats takes photos from a Russian Lolcats website called Kotomatrix.ru and claims to translate the Cyrillic captions into English. However, the translations don't match the actual Russian text. A joke about a cat inspecting for contraband items, for instance, actually says something about a making sure that the purchased items match the receipt. And those two fighting kittens? The Russian joke does not insult one of its former republics. English version: "You punch like a Georgian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Lolcats | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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