Word: slapper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there's the one about the prisoners who were so familiar with the jokes told in the penitentiary that all they needed to do was call out the number of a particular knee-slapper to keep themselves in stitches. Offering a demonstration for a visitor, the warden called out 61-37-4. The prisoners howled and guffawed. "Now you try one," invited the warden. The visitor called out 53, then 89 and finally 2. No laughter, not a chuckle. The warden shrugged: "I guess it depends on how you tell...
...hugger, a hand-shaker, a back-slapper--body-English--and when something important came up he tore downstairs and interrupted whatever I was doing and said, "You're the only one around here who can straighten this out. You've been in the Far East, not in Washington, among the cookie-pushers...
...young Black man stood at a doorway, slapping palms with jubilant Blacks as they passed by A white man came through and held out his hand. The slapper looked perplexed...
...teams traded goals again in the middle stanza Northeastern's leading scorer, Ken Manchurek, smacked one past Blair on another Husky power play (N.U. had five advantages in the game. Harvard six) Code responded with a low a slapper from the point just 80 seconds later...
...father used to ask me that one when I was seven, along with the knee-slapper about what has four wheels and flies? Even then, the joke seemed pretty lame, but an appealing new response has appeared in the form of the album Red All Over by the group Busload of Nuns, featuring the performances of Marc Lowenstein '85 and Andrea Burke '85. The record's somber album jacket is, you guessed it, black and white, but the slyly absurd title is just a harbinger of the album's unexpected jabs at presence and pretension. Red All Over, like...