Word: wildly
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...Steve-O and I were both in a llama suit walking around in a pen with wild boards, and all of a sudden we felt something pushing against us. I looked around, and an elk had mounted...
...with distinctly South American tropicalia. They’re too damn happy and wise for pretension.And boy howdy, could they rock a groove.It’s interesting—when they were young bucks in the ’60s, they made a conscious effort to be as wild and new as they possibly could, but now, with age, they seem to have realized that they can get less fuzzed-out and more like traditional South American music. Watching them was like watching an aging, agnostic Jew rediscover the power of scripture, and dance with glee as he intones...
After a summer spent trolling around Italy—most of which I spent on the back of a pink scooter wearing fingerless gloves and laughing drolly at my Italian compatriots’ anecdotes about hunting for wild boars—I must admit that I was a bit disappointed to return to Cambridge. It’s just hard for me—as it would be for any intelligent person—to bid goodbye to the sight of 11-year-olds wearing t-shirts with adorable phrases like “Sexy Bitch” printed...
...Leigh Harrell, a fellow classmate of Perez's, e-mailed me from Baghdad to say that she ran into Perez in Iraq not long ago. "We talked for probably an hour telling each other about the wild experiences we'd already had as platoon leaders in combat," Harrell wrote. "We had some laughs and both talked of how much we were looking forward to going home and seeing our families again...
...Until the late '50s, popular British humor came from the working class. Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, the Goons whose wild radio comedy enthralled all classes (Prince Charles was a particular fan), had never gone near a university. That changed with Beyond the Fringe, a comedy revue written by and starring four recent graduates from Cambridge (Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller) and Oxford (Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore). Quite a few shapers of the national smile over the next decade or so were Oxonians, like the creators of the influential satirical magazine Private Eye, who had first convened...