Word: laming
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Moviegoers love babies, of course. A lame comedy like 3 Men and a Baby earned $168 million by offering little more than Tom Selleck diapering a child. The talking baby is another familiar Hollywood tradition; street-smart infants narrated the film The First Time (1952) and a 1960 sitcom called Happy. Spermatozoa have schmoozed (Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex), and in this year's Me and Him even a penis got chatty...
Hall's one concession to talk-show tradition is to perform an opening monologue. His topical jokes are lame compared with Carson's or Jay Leno's, but he exposes himself in a way those cool satirists never do. Talking about Ralph Abernathy's book, in which the former civil rights leader made allegations about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s sexual escapades, Hall barely disguised his anger. "He's just jealous," said Hall. "Probably hasn't been with three women in his life . . . Martin's still my hero. Right...
...political position on the primary issue of the fiscal crisis and the budget has been stregnthened [by the announcement]," says former Democratic State Senator George Bachrach. "But he has seen the limiting of his possible agenda on the peripheral issues." He said last week, "As a lame duck, he will be unable to make demands upon the legislature on many legislative and social issues that are of concern...
...table we were sitting at returned something less than an "overwhelming verdict" of "kudos to HDS." We found the vegetarian hamburger to be, frankly, vile. We were amazed at HDS' lame attempt to improvise a new menu item. We compared it unfavorably to other emetics frequently served in our dining halls, such as broccoli-cheese pasta and vegetable stromboli. If Mr. Berger turns out to be partial to these dishes too, we would not dream of denying him the right to his opinion. We would, however, deny him the right to speak for the general undergraduate population, which we believe...
...once read about two minor league owners who swapped teams. Ha, ha. They should be immortalized in the Hall of Lame, along with the genius who started wiggling the camera during AT&T ads. They were screwing with their fans' identities. Who do you root for? Should you move...