Word: merriments
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...imperious King clown (Gordon White) leads his vigorous aides-de-camp (Christian Fitzharris and Jimmy Slonina) strutting through the crowd before the performance and, during it, dragging volunteer victims on stage for some not-so-innocent merriment. In one prize bit, White is seen fainting from exhaustion and Fitzharris leans over him to give him the breath of life; as the kiss gets more amatory, Slonina avidly cranks an invisible camera and cheap disco music fills the air - it's the first Cirque de Porno. There's also a cast member in a yellow shaggy-dog suit who trots...
...newfangled dungarees and brimmed caps turned askew, and not so much as a single article of tweed! They scream along to their wild rock-and-roll music—all fans of those British, mop-headed Insects, or Beetles, or whatnot—and exhibit all manner of inappropriate merriment...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Although Brown’s Spring Weekend filled the campus with excitement, the Harvard baseball team took no part in the merriment. The Crimson dropped both games in a critical Saturday twinbill against the Bears, vaulting the hosts out of a second-place tie with Harvard.Trailing Dartmouth by three games entering the weekend, the Crimson was looking to make a statement at the expense of its Ancient Eight rival, but Brown asserted itself as the stronger team, claiming victories, 3-1 and 8-5.“We just didn?...
...these gangs put a lot of effort in because they make money from it," said Straw, who as Home Secretary established the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit to crack down on exactly such activities. "In a lot of cases, they do get people to cough up." To the merriment of his Westminster colleagues, none of Straw's constituents put hand into pocket to rescue their MP. (See a story about how one web browser warns users about potential phishing sites...
When the ancient Assyrians felt the painful aftereffects of excess merriment, they consumed a mixture of ground birds' beaks and myrrh. European doctors in the Middle Ages recommended raw eel and bitter almonds. Mongolians ate pickled sheep's eyes, while China went with a more palatable dose of green tea. Germans still eat Katerfruhstuck, a postbinge breakfast that usually consists of herring, pickles and goulash. Russians don't eat anything at all; they jump in a sauna and sweat it all out, sometimes flagellating themselves with birch branches to aid blood flow...