Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gina V. Sanchez '94, one of the co-chairs of Eliot's house committee, said Eliot does not contain the "traditional stuffy atmosphere" and that the stereotype was "something that we all poke...
Attention baby boomer: you're not a kid anymore. Lee's ads poke gentle fun at this, ah, growing market. We've all been there. Dad sits down to watch TV in his old jeans and his top button flies off, ricocheting around the room like a bullet. A woman struggling to get into her too tight jeans keeps her date waiting so long that he meets and marries her roommate. If only she'd had Easy Riders...
...their most deliberately Anglicized. It is not only the Merseyside accent (which is perceptibly stronger when Morrissey declares lightly: "I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen,") or the Wodehouse-like phrases ("you're the bee's knees"), but also the sly double meanings which continually poke fun at British culture. "Two lumps, please," Morrissey declares soulfully, in "Reel Around the Fountain," referring to a cup of tea and a sexual partner at the same time...
...think it's a funny game at all we play here," says Richard B. Boardman, director of the Harvard College Fund. "It's very serious stuff...and people want to poke fun at it, like Time magazine and the Harvard Lampoon...
...biting comment exchanged over the potato counter in Stalinist Moscow is not for here. But there is humor elsewhere, not in the queazy attempts at stand-up savagery, but the politics themselves. How can you poke fun at American politics when the thing itself is so damn hilarious? Why make endless quips about that nice Mr. Quayle when one look at his squidgy visage, writhing with stupidity, outdoes anything a comedian could express. All the way through the Vice-Presidential debate I was doubled up with laughter as cliche rebounded off smirk, off slick quip, off tear-jerking'''real-life...