Word: mocks
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...candidates who participated in a mock version of “Jeopardy!” last night, only one lucky student—whose name will be announced this morning—will go on to compete with 14 other contestants in the national competition at Yale...
...addition to the pretest and the mock competition, the Jeopardy! Clue Crew—a band of crew members who travel around in a quest for obscure facts—created a circus-like atmosphere, handing out key chains, t-shirts, a special “Simpsons” edition of the Jeopardy! board game and tickets to the New Haven show...
...that he makes, as per Britney’s dictum, including his decision to encourage a brigade of lawyers working patriotically to figure out a way to make gay marriage a crime. Had not the American people recently seen Britney dressed as a bride kissing another woman at a mock wedding? Was Britney Spears defying the president’s decision that gay marriage is evil? Does Britney Spears support al Qaeda...
...surreal," be afraid. Since David Lynch's Twin Peaks, the supposedly bizarre has evolved its own cliches. These were best satirized in the 1995 movie Living in Oblivion, in which Steve Buscemi plays a director who casts a dwarf in a dream sequence, only to have the little person mock him. "The only place I've seen dwarfs in dreams is in stupid movies like this!" the tiny actor says. "Oh, make it weird, put a dwarf...
...good. There's a serious side to this, says the Institute's Klaus Krischok: "There are streets in Germany where Nazis used to walk. These streets have changed a lot, so why not change your perception?" Advertisers - German ones, anyway - are applauding. "The British do not believe we can mock ourselves, so we have to show that we can," says Ralph Blome, manager of Innovista, a Hanover ad agency. His own suggestion: "A picture of a plate of Sauerkraut and the slogan 'We are Krauts - we are having a good time!'" You can already hear the plane tickets being booked...