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...have to mention, sheepishly, one more Playboy contributor: me. When I was still in school, I submitted a gag for the Party Jokes page, and they printed it. Here it is: ?The doting father came home one night and was shocked to find his daughter and his friends smoking marijuana. Pulling the stick of pot out of the girl?s mouth, he exclaimed, ?What?s a joint like this doing in a nice girl like you??? At the time I was tickled to have received $50 for 43 words. Today, I look back in chagrin, to see I was once...
...generally used to transport troops. Also riding in the back are two TIME journalists. As the convoy begins moving again, Jenks and Beverly chat casually and laugh. Sergeant Ronald Buxton, who is riding shotgun in the cab of the high-back, whips around. "I don't care if you joke or if you smoke," he tells the privates, "but make sure you watch our back...
...what it takes--in a culture broken down by tribes and ages and demographics--to make an across-the-board hit. People flocked to Nemo because it was a good movie, of course. It was moving, it was beautifully animated. And who doesn't like a good ink-spurting joke? But more important, it was about easy-to-agree-with universals: loving your family, learning to live with risks. (It was the sort of movie that, before the statute of limitations expired, we would have called "post-Sept. 11.") And it had a cast whose appeal was not laser-targeted...
...fabulous on the outside as you are on the inside," she says. Dan wouldn't argue. He's a positive thinker now, full of can-do, upbeat mottoes and brimming over with assertive high spirits. The man whose favorite sayings used to be "Love is a joke" and "Sex is just friction" spends his time these days flirting and dancing. He sincerely believes that "your life is in your hands and you can make it better." His eyes, no longer obscured by thick glasses, thanks to LASIK surgery, are a striking bluish green. His weight is down from...
Sarah Lefton began her career as head of the hip micro clothing line Jewish Fashion Conspiracy "as a joke, really." Her day job as the marketing director of a summer camp in Yosemite National Park provided the inspiration. She made up a few T shirts bearing the slogan YO SEMITE for her own amusement, and, she says, "I kept getting stopped in the street." Within two days she had taken orders for 36 shirts, and a new career was born...