Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...penguin waiters patrol in tuxedos, and Daffy and Donald Duck, together for the first time, perform a piano duet. Meet old friends like Mickey and Bugs, Tweety and Betty Boop, and new ones, like the '80s version of Snow White's dwarfs: Greasy, Wheezy, Smart Ass, Psycho and Stupid. Once the plot gets rolling, and Hoskins is handcuffed to his fugitive client, you may forget that Roger was drawn onto the scene long after it was shot...
...choice words usually come to the mind of a driver when he is stopped by the police, but Bavarians have a very expensive reason to think twice before uttering any unseemly thoughts. According to a survey by the Munich newspaper Abendzeitung, Bavarians who vilify traffic officers as damischer Bullen (stupid bull) are fined an average of $1,710. Some less costly imprecations include Raubritter (robber baron) at $1,140, Depp (idiot) at $513 and Stinkstiefel (smelly boot), a relative bargain...
...have come back to the Bomb and fused to it my more recent interest in the media, taking it one step farther. I think the Reagan counterreformation is receding. A lot of what we did in the '60s was stupid, tactically unbalanced, and I didn't think that should be repeated...
...chosen to walk in a line, than doing so is not an abridgement of anything. If I choose to walk on my tiptoes, I do so by choice. And if it does not hurt anyone around me, despite how tired I might get and how stupid I might look, it is my choice. Perhaps in another plane of existence, vaguely familiar to our own, one might hear a certain dean being appalled at the farcical practice of "punching" as an abridgement of human dignity...
...neutral fact. I think this new boom in superstition is bad news of the first order. Television coverage of late has been limited to interviews with psuedoscientists and their devotees, who naturally are gleeful about the recent turn of events. The press seems afraid to point out how stupid a belief in astrology is, how discredited a "science" it is, and how silly it is of Reagan to be mixed up with...