Word: seal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst puns from the national hustings. But once punning gets into the bloodstream, it seems to be as intoxicating as alcohol. Even that master of precooked prose, Richard Nixon, could not resist a pun on the morning after he was elected to the presidency. Referring to a presidential seal that Julie had stitched and framed for him, Nixon described it as "the kindest thing that I had happen, even though it's crewel." That conjures up the frightening vision of a Nixon-Muskie race in which the two candidates pun for the presidency...
...VOICE intones, while the Presidential seal flashes on: "We interrupt this program for a message from the President." "I don't want to be in Vietnam," the President whines. "The Vietnam war..." --he searches for a perfectly clear description--"...is like a pebble in my shoe; it's like blowing a wet fart..." "America has balls..."--again he looks for the perfect phrase--"...and if any of you out there take offense at that you can go take a flying shit...
...pointed to a huge 750-pound bomb with U.S. markings, dated "3-71," which had not exploded. It had been dug up by hospital workers and now lay on the land like a beached seal...
...good actress and is still a beautiful woman; it is a sorrowful thing to watch her camp it up. O'Brien and Director Brian G. Hutton (Where Eagles Dare} toss dialogue and bits of business her way like zookeepers throwing fish to a performing seal...
...night this freak with eyes about as big as silver dollars give the group this bottle of Boone's Farm. It was full, but the seal had been broken. It didn't worry us too much, but it turned out that it had about a hundred hits of PCP in it. Anyway, we were passing it around and Billy C., the lead singer, just had to finish it off, so he killed the last couple of slugs, the part with most of the PCP in it. We went on stage, just playin' right along, when Billy C. passed...