Word: lamest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after Andrew gave me my diploma, in what had to be the lamest, most awkward ceremony since I got my last diploma, that I found out Skip Barber offers a free course at high schools called "Crashing Is a Bummer." It certainly would cover the bummer of crashing your girlfriend's parents' car. Unfortunately, Andrew couldn't help me with that part, but he did tell me Jerry Seinfeld, who took the course a couple of times, totaled two Formula Four cars. Feeling sorry, Seinfeld slapped a Skip Barber magnet on his TV show's refrigerator. It is in that...
Joel Stein's piece in which he called the Adopt-a-Highway program the lamest charity he'd ever heard of [NOTEBOOK, March 1] was a slap in the face to those of us who care about the state of the environment. This program provides money and manpower to help clean littered stretches of highway. Maybe Stein enjoys seeing the rotting wrappers that blow across the endless roadways, but most of us do not. BRANDICE HARTSOCK Blacksburg...
...whose last charitable act was letting someone merge into my lane, I shouldn't go criticizing other people's good works. But the adopt-a-highway program may be the lamest charity I've ever heard of. What goes through these people's minds? "Yeah, homelessness is a bummer, but, my God, have you seen what's become of that westbound stretch of I-80?" Or "Honey, should we adopt a Somali orphan or a small section of road...
...money shot. On Monday, after fans had waited 37 years, Mark McGwire hit his record-tying 61st home run of the season, and the next night he showed up for his prime-time network-television special to hit No. 62. The record-breaking shot was McGwire's shortest, lamest homer of the year. Afterward, we looked to the media to be told what the moral significance was. It was like someone brought in the writers from Home Improvement...
...rest, it sends a ripple of consternation across the land. That is what happened when President Nixon, relaxing at his Camp David, Md., retreat, snatched up his briefcase, dashed to his helicopter and zipped back to the White House. To make matters murkier, White House spokesmen offered the lamest excuses. Speculation mounted. Quite simply, the President was escaping from the pollen hanging heavy over Camp David. Indeed, one wonders at the effort to cover up the President's allergy." --June 26, 1972, the issue published the week before the Watergate break...