Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishing career as an athlete. People are astonished to hear that I was an athlete in any sense, but I really was a gymnastics champion in high school, on the side horse, which some people confuse with the hobby horse in an attempt to get a cheap laugh. [Cheap laughter.] It is a very difficult piece of athletic apparatus, and I worked it simply because it was the only piece of apparatus that our team could afford. And if you ever saw me on the side horse, you'd come to scoff but remain to pray. [Laughter.] . . . Jesse, I have...
...STRUGGLING): You do have a pastime I know about: snorkeling. Where do you snork? [Laughter...
...snork in the privacy of my home. [Laughter.] I don't see anything wrong with snorkeling at all. I think snorkeling between consenting adults is a very fine thing and should be encouraged. [Laughter and applause...
...play cards. [Laughter.] No, you just simply enjoy the bliss of being under water, especially if you're in the tropics, where there's a lot of coral and that sort of thing. It's just a dream experience. It isn't like anything else. You get your face down in the water and you feel like you're back home again. Maybe I'm related to a fish. I knew a guy who could trace his family tree back to the original lungfish that crawled out on land. Very snobbish fellow, by the way. [Laughter...
...PAUSING A BEAT): Uh-uh. [Laughter...