Word: sir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stand-up comics have gotten rich with routines about the MIT football team. ("Sir? That's actually the 20-yard line segment...") Its squash team hasn't beaten Harvard in 50 years. And its crew teams aren't much better...
Judge Learned Hand once said to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Do justice, sir, do justice!" Holmes replied, "That is not my job. My job is to apply the law." The judiciary is not in the business of making the laws. That duty is reserved to the legislative branch. Extremists who apply a single-issue litmus test to a nominee wish to achieve ends in the judiciary which they have no hope of achieving in the legislatures of this country. This is a circumvention of democracy and must be stopped...
...queen conspires to fix the suitor competition so that Diana will pick Sir Galahad Lastnight (Skip Sneeringer), a notorious (and rather rotund) womanizer. Galahad agrees to marry Diana and kill her on their wedding night. That way no one will stand between Prettiface and the throne...
...called another a "faggot." Martinez suggested to the name-caller that he seemed insecure about his own sexuality. Later, Martinez was called in by his commanding officer, who requested details of the clash, then asked if he could pose a question. "Are you gay?" he asked. "Yes, sir," Martinez replied. "Well," the commander said, "you're still doing a good job, Marine." The issue never came up again...
...accused Europe and the U.S. of being more concerned with "the rich man's war" in Bosnia than with the fate of the starving in Somalia. He picked a fight with both Lord Carrington, then the European Community's chief negotiator in the Balkan crisis, and Sir David Hannay, Britain's U.N. ambassador, over the same issue, commenting that it was "maybe because I am a wog" that he had been criticized in the British press...