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...laugh? Eventually, I screw up the courage to ask Wiseman if he thinks the winning joke is funny. "The answer is ... at the moment ... well, no," he admits. "But I don't think it's a bad joke. It's fine." Then comes the real bombshell - the scoop that's going to make my journalistic career. Turns out the world's funniest joke is not actually the world's funniest joke. "It was," Wiseman confesses, only "the world's funniest clean joke." More than 10,000 of the gags submitted by respondents around the world were too smutty...
...Pure semi-sweet chocolate whisked over the double burner with 14 percent vanilla extract,” he says with obvious pride. I’m handed a white plastic tasting spoon and instructed to take a scoop. It’s reminiscent of a chilled cup of Burdick’s cocoa, without the stomach-sinking consistency...
Gone is the era when a meal in a department store meant a scoop of chicken salad on a plastic tray in a room reminiscent of your grandmother's conservatory. These days, shoppers at Peter Jones in London are feasting on warm squid and green chilli salad. At Selfridges one can tuck into a plate of salmon ravioli at the Premier restaurant, which has a view over bustling Oxford Street. At Harrods, the clientele in the Georgian Restaurant is nibbling terrine of foie gras with cèpes, fillet of red mullet and wild game pudding whipped...
...contrarian play. But that's what he has always sought. Now that many cable companies have exhausted themselves and the patience of their bankers by trying to string copper wire and coaxial cable from the North Sea to the Baltic to the Mediterranean, he can come in and scoop up the fruits of their labors for pennies on the euro. "What seems to be cheap seems to get cheaper as one waits," he quipped, with his typically dry sense of humor, at the recent shareholder meeting of Liberty Media, the onetime TCI programming arm that Malone has turned into...
...asks the beast in a live televised interview. Not surprisingly, the media ends up being the true monster of the story. In the journalists of Beatrice’s newspaper, the barely perceptible sparks of reason, empathy and moderation are overwhelmed by the pressure for the biggest and juiciest scoop. Like all the characters, they are only slightly mythicized versions of familiar characters...