Word: truck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Biggest adjustments to city life: I'm used to knowing everyone and people being friendlier. Here drivers try to run you over instead of waving to you. No one here drives a pickup truck either, the ultimate form of transport at home...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat stood reviewing his troops, a military truck halted in front of him and four uniformed men leaped out, firing automatic rifles at the reviewing stand. One of the men ran straight toward Sadat, pumping bullet after bullet into his body. "I am Khalid al-Islambouli!" the attacker shouted. "I have killed Pharaoh...
...going to campaign vigorously for having a monster truck come to run over the remaining books," Moxon says...
This, however, would not satisfy the ultimate goal of a full monster truck rally. So far the group has been divided as to where to stage the attempt...
...whoever the opponent of the week is). The humor, I suppose, derives from the provocative fact that the word "ruck" rhymes with the American colloquialism which connotes copulation. Unfortunately, most people have, since elementary school, exhausted the possibilities that this rhyme pattern offers--with words such as duck, truck, luck, puck, muck, and suck, many of which are even commonly used in America...