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...quick and helpful pointers, check out Presentation S.O.S., by Mark Wiskup. Among the guide's surprising suggestions: don't start off with a joke (it will probably flop), and avoid famous quotes (original thoughts have more impact...
...Even so, Mercado said, the session was enlightening. “As a gay man, I didn’t know much about vagina,” said Mercado. “Now I do.” Airs agreed that some audience members probably were there as a joke, but said there was a need for a lighthearted discussion. “People come for a whole lot of different reasons—as a joke, pretending it’s a joke,” said Kristin E. Wheatley ’06, who helped organize the event...
...world, it was not the hand I wanted or even dreamed of touching.'' Perhaps only a man so lacking in charm can be immune to it in others. A Scotch drinker and chain smoker, Rabin has never had a nickname, and there is no such thing as a Rabin joke, either about him or by him. Emotion and warmth seem foreign to him. Once on a visit to the White House in 1977, Rabin was asked by President Carter if he would like to drop by Amy's room and say good night. He said no, he wouldn't. While...
...White Sox game. And at the outset, this final stop in Cambridge portends another embarrassing disconnect between author and reader: “a gay British guy and a straight American teenager walk into a café” (Algiers, to be precise) sounds more like a weak joke than the convening of kindred spirits. Circumstances don’t help, either–the room is noisy, and I have to lean forward and ask for frequent repetitions to understand Hollinghurst’s Oxonian accent and quiet, rapid delivery.His opinion of my dubious comprehension, as well...
...preachers, took their guns and crossed into Afghanistan after 9/11 to join the Taliban fighting American troops. In the 19th century, they repeatedly drove back British forces from the Indus. These tribes were known to be as fanatical as they were fierce, but they do like to joke around. "Would you like to see your President Boosh?" asks tribesman Tariq Angar as he drags over a white-bearded elder with a mean squint. Lose the beard and, sure enough, he did look like Dubya around the pale eyes. Angar laughed, but the elder scowled; he wasn't pleased at being...