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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down an invitation to speak at Harvard Class Day Exercises in 1957 because he felt he couldn't miss a single taping of the Honeymooners? You know I write all my own material? Nobody else wanted to. I don't get no respect. The mailman bites my dog. My mother-in-law bites the mailman. My wife is so dumb that she thinks cataracts are just the General Motors version of Lincoln Continentals...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...speech. See how much respect you lack for it. It's called "No Respect #19," and it's based on a routine which put me through college, although it didn't garner me much Respect, especially in light of the neighborhood and all. Stole the hubcaps off my mother-in-law, who was so old that she thought the mailman was just the Ford version of the Sedan de Ville...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...dirty no good so-and-so! Staying out until this late! What are my mother and I supposed to do? Steal the hubcaps off moving cataracts? No wonder you don't get no Respect! You don't deserve Respect!! And if you ever get Respect, we're getting a divorce, since your not getting Respect is apparently the only thing that keeps the bucks rolling in. If I were you, I'd feel lower than you felt when Mobil hired you to play a tankful of gas in that high-budget ad of theirs...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...they know that none of your socks match? Do they know that I'm so fat that I think hubcaps are my mother...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...That's it, lunkhead! We're getting a divorce! And I get custody of the pathos! You can have the oriental rugs, the mopeds, my mother, our daughter, our hippie, our hubcaps, but not one bit of the pathos...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

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