Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THEY WERE CLEVER, though. The normal Clever Caller would follow up a polite introduction with a catch-her-off-balance fast jab, "What are you doing now?" And I'd be stupid and fumble for excuses, "I'm studying." "Great, then you'll need a coffee break." Panicked, "Well, actually, I was going to sleep." His oh-so-cool and patient laugh, "Oh come on now. At 10 p.m.?" "Yeah, well, I got bored." "Great. I'm downstairs" (the dorm was guarded by a switchboard) "I'll come right up and entertain you." At which point, having let myself...
...three beers, I enjoy talking about my ex-roommate who liked peanut butter and bologna sandwiches, about the night four of us inched across the Adams House roof to break into the pool at 2 a.m. I like talking about The Crimson comp, about loud concerts, and stupid jokes my drinking partner has heard also...
...robberies they commit, help support their families, with perhaps even enough leftover for that "trip to Florida." But they never make enough to quit the game. Jail, finally, is the only real stake. The game breeds a grim desperation. "Life's hard, but it's harder when you're stupid," says gunseller Jackie Brown. Not being stupid means making the best deal...
Much of the police skepticism vanished when the boy's mother received his letter and two phone calls, apparently from one of the kidnapers. "At first I thought it might be a stupid joke," she said, "but then I understood it was serious." To prove that the kidnaping was not a hoax, the caller said he would send the mother one of her son's fingers. Grandfather Getty, meanwhile, said that he would not pay a ransom. Although he sees his grandson infrequently and is not particularly close to him, Getty said he loves him nonetheless. Yet love...
...walk through the free bars set up by the Kansas City Royals management reveals the number of hangers-on. It seems that the necessary background to be a reporter, manager, coach, director of player personnel, general manager, or owner is to be white, a drunk, and a little too stupid to run a bowling alley...