Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then Michel, who has been working at an architectural firm for a year, had to be boated home. On land he proudly drives an old rusted $500 Ford LTD. "Janis hates it," he said, coming aboard. "I had only had little European cars. I very much wanted a big, stupid machine." This was on a Friday, and Michel did a very American thing. He handed his wife his paycheck and got himself a beer...
With those kind of numbers Duncan felt ready for major college basketball, and set out looking for the biggest-name school that would offer him a scholarship. But at a summer hoop camp, the director took a "personal interest" in Duncan. "He told me it'd be stupid for me not to go to the Ivy League," Duncan reports. "Realistically, the pros were a long-shot, and you can't beat an Ivy education...
...YOUR BEST BEHAVIOR whenever a comedian's nearby, because if you do anything stupid, silly or even just a little bit odd, he'll put it in his act in a way that makes you look particularly foolish. And then everyone will find out what an idiot you really...
...show centered on the union of the financially strapped Opera Winfrey Company and the country-western performers at the Bland Ole Oprey. The two groups join forces then stave of the assault of T.V. minister Holly R. Thanthou. Sounds stupid...
BERTHOLD BRECHT expressed the contemporary view best: "Unhappy the land with heroes." Since Brecht wrote many things, so much of it stupid, permit me a correction: Miserable the land without heroes...