Search Details

Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...high doses, amoxicillin is excreted before it can work its magic. Think of it as trying to fill a bathtub with the drain open, suggests Jason Umans, an internist and maternal-fetal pharmacologist at Georgetown University. "In emergencies, you always hear, 'Treat the pregnant women first!'" he says. "The joke should be 'Yeah, how?'" (See how the FDA classifies drugs and their effects on pregnancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Risks (and Rewards) of Pills and Pregnancy | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...willing to prove and ready to prove that this was a joke, and I was wrong.' MULLER, after allowing himself to be waterboarded for seven seconds; he later described the experience as "horrific" and "absolutely torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...that way with almost all the humor here: virtually every joke either is visible long before it arrives or extends way past its expiration date. There's no question that Phillips's Old School had a high quotient of shambling fun, and he can frame catastrophe with a certain comedic elegance, but he's hamstrung by another reductive script from Lucas and Moore, whose Four Christmases and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past boasted clever structures and no acuity at all in the character and gag departments. Even Galifianakis's pervy charm, and a deeply weird cameo by Mike Tyson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hangover: A Bro-Magnon Bromance | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...event via Twitter should include the word #hackedu in his 140 characters. In the room, a large display screen showed a running feed of tweets. Then we all started talking, and as we did, a shadow conversation unfolded on the screen: summaries of someone's argument, the occasional joke, suggested links for further reading. At one point, a brief argument flared up between two participants in the room - a tense back-and-forth that transpired silently on the screen as the rest of us conversed in friendly tones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...questionable approach at the very least." She cites Focus on the Family studies that have found that 43% of families say pornography is a problem in their home. And while she acknowledges that the spot has some fun at the porn-consumer's expense (the last joke in the ad is about the porn-buyer's mom finding out what he's purchasing), she says that "many of these people's experiences with pornography is not funny. Some of their families have been devastated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Porn's for You: Budweiser's Racy Web Ad | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | Next