Word: scum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questions asked. Heck, they can even obliterate people's memories with the blink of a red light. Who wouldn't want their job? Who else could they be but the Men in Black ("MiB" for short: beats "ID4" any day, doesn't it?), "protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe"? Who else could they be but Tommy Lee Jones '69 and Will Smith in one of the most hyped movies of the season...
...like plumbing. Huge nonprofit institutions such as the Freedom Forum have been created in the press's quest to analyze itself. Daily they convene media panels, in which a couple of reporters and a journalism professor sit before an audience and chew over subjects like "Everybody Thinks We're Scum, and No Wonder: Reflections on Public Mistrust of the Media." Grimly, the nonprofits commission polls to take the public's temperature, and the results are unvarying: reporters rank somewhere below concentration-camp guards, nobody believes what he reads in the newspaper, and so on. And the results are then duly...
Ratso Rizzo! Porn! Human scum...
...Creation Research in Santee, California. "There is no scientific evidence for evolution. All the real solid evidence supports creation." Bill Hoesch, a spokesman for the institute, says, "[John Paul] would say that man's dignity does not suffer even if God used the process of evolving him from pond scum through the apes to the present so-called dignified position, and we would differ with that...
...comes Old Man Ferguson from just around the block--/ (I can't stand this crock of schlock!)/ The Town Police make sure you never see yourself a bum./ The Litter Agents sweep Offstage the smallest crumb./ The cleanliness can numb you; where'd they stash away the scum?/ We're not dumb; it's in the slum...