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...practice restraint. We did not knowingly once spelt out the F word in four years of intercollegiate performance. Phallic symbols did not appear with regularity or rigidity (due mainly to the Brand's inability to perform any evolution with the requisite precision). Thus the instant reports of "puke" [I believe "barf" was once the word of choice] and commentary on Flight 007 or Marines in Lebanon hardly offend our generation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Restraint | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...than two dozen phrases meaning "to vomit." This is no mistake. Perhaps more than any other group in recent decades, the youth of the 1980s revel in bad taste. For the generation that grew up with Saturday Night Live and Animal House, nothing is funnier than a well told puke joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question Of Taste | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

...string of "jokes" which left few of the 20,000 spectators laughing, the band made light of the recent deaths of Marines in Lebanon and the tragic downing of Korean Airlines flight 007. Thankfully for traditionalists, the group did wind up its act Saturday by awkwardly converting "UNION" into "PUKE"--certainly no mean feat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question Of Taste | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

...which the two stars also directed, sets the Cheech and Chong of malt into an informal remake of Hamlet and includes "quotations" from Star Wars, Superman, W.C. Fields movies and Polish jokes. (Sample dialogue, Bob to heroine: "Hey, you're real nice. If I didn't have puke breath I'd kiss you.") On TV Thomas and Moranis are sophisticated parodists; on film they are clod farceurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Sep. 12, 1983 | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...smells entirely like puke," said fraternity member Michael Lampson. Everyone thought they woke up and puked on themselves...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: April Fools | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

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