Word: jokingness
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oddball humor. She reflects on the Norwegian climate, joking that her family "ran around in the snow with sandals on." She pillories cross-cultural dating, dispensing sardonic tips on "how to pick up a Pakistani chick," and addresses her girlhood fear that the light mustache that appeared on her upper...
"If they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men." ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Republican Governor of California, complaining about Democrats who he claims are delaying his budget proposal, in a joking reference to the bodybuilders on Saturday Night Live
On Monday, this issue was swept under the rug by the speakers’ bronzed star power. Al Gore ’69 is allowed to be bitter about the 2000 election, as long as he pretends he’s joking.
Like any successful newsroom, the Australian's must be a mix of scavenger, sage and spectator, and a newspaper which claims the whole continent as its beat needs to understand sleepy Cairns just as well as it does the Canberra political hothouse. In the daily search for the obvious and...
It’s just that I think many people here have two faces. Behind the joking about visas and good spirited banter in broken Arabic, I detect envy and little hope for the future. The manager at a pizza shop I frequent bemoans his abundance of education (a masters...