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Damon Wayans
Damon Wayans 1961– Comedian, actor, writer, film director At a Glance… Selected works Sources In 1990 comedian Damon Wayans burst onto the television scene with In Living Color, an outrageously funny and often controversial comedy show broadcast on the Fox Network. Each week, the... Read more |
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geological humour
geological humour The Earth sciences have lent themselves to many different forms of humour since the early nineteenth century, and even the ‘lying stones of Dr Beringer’ (manufactured fossils, 1726) may be regarded as a joke on the part of his students—although it was not so... Read more |
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Weber and Fields
Weber and Fields , American comedy team. The partners were Joe Weber (Joseph Maurice Weber), 1867-1942, and Lew Fields (Lewis Maurice Schanfield), 1867-1941, both born in New York City. At the age of eight they were performing together on the Bowery, and shortly afterward they began their... Read more |
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tuning fork
tuning fork steel instrument in the shape of a U with a short handle. When struck it produces an almost pure tone, retaining its pitch over a long period of time; thus it is a valuable aid in tuning musical instruments. It was invented in 1711 by John Shore, who jokingly called it a pitchfork.... Read more |
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scherzo
scherzo [Ital.,=joke], in music, term denoting various types of composition, primarily one that is lively and presents surprises in the rhythmic or melodic material. In 1607 a group of light pieces for voice were published by Monteverdi as scherzi musicali. In the symphonies and string quartets... Read more |
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viral marketing
viral marketing 1. A marketing strategy in which various unconventional techniques are used to generate word-of-mouth excitement about a product. Conventional media outlets may be deliberately avoided in order to create an air of mystery or exclusivity. 2. More specifically, a form of direct... Read more |
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Displacement
DISPLACEMENT For Freud, displacement (a primary process) means the transference of physical intensities (1900a, p. 306) along an "associative path," so that strongly cathected ideas have their charge displaced onto other, less strongly cathected ones. This process is active in the formation of... Read more |
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Ecologist
Ecologist If a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazon, it causes a typhoon in Asia. This half-joke by ecologists illustrates their belief that all life on Earth is connected in a delicate and barely understood balance. Ecologists study the web of relationships between the... Read more |
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George Spelvin
Spelvin, George. This name was given to a character or an actor in a play to hide his real identity. It was employed as early as 1886 by Charles A. Gardner in his Karl, the Peddler. William Collier jokingly credited Spelvin as co‐author of Hoss and Hoss (1893). Its use was most widely... Read more |
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CORN RELISH VEGGIES AND JOKES ARE RIPE AT SONNY CARSON'S MONONA STAND.(Front)
...in Johnny,'' the corn man says. ``He...man who's toiled long and hard in the sun...this isn't bad. At least there...claims to have the best corn around. And his customers...regulars. ``There are no strangers,'' he...the part that shows ... |
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Munch a corn dog? Let's see the green
...get rid of it. Worse than having some...for me to eat a corn dog. And now I...likes to tell a joke that goes like...about for $5? No way, the woman...than that ... no. I am not a cheap...offering to give up a long-standing ... |
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Next Russian president already the brunt of jokes amid speculation about...
...Anekdoty have long been a litmus...exile, prison or worse for expressing...once called the joke "a tiny revolution...introduction of corn on collective...escape barbed jokes about his KGB...today can openly joke about their ... |
 "Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland)")
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Corn on the fourth of July
...So I had one great joke to take with me to...admittedly pretty bad Star Wars prequel...reasons. There was no swimming pool and...universal rule. There was no beer. It was more...had been in America long enough to make a great...smoulder, ... |
 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Hollywoodputs corn in corned beef.(Features)
...it can't get any worse - it does. The Devil...it's a standing joke. The supposed thriller...critics' ire in a way no picture has since...stinker Waterworld. And no wonder. Corned...up every cliche. No wonder Brad Pitt distanced...the Irish ... |
 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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The King of Corn.
...idol. And there is no real biography. Wouldn...80s slump that was so bad that Columbia Records...passing. There's also no real music criticism...rarity called "The Long Way Home" is a "catchy...believer that it's no joke. ... |
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THAT'S A CRACKER! JOKES TO MAKE YOU GAG OVER CHRISTMAS DINNER.(Features)
...without those awful jokes in crackers...selection of the bad, the very bad...WHAT did baby corn say to mummy corn? - Where's...Budgies with no teeth. WHY didn...Because he had no body to go with...in winter? ... |
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The blanding of `Christmas' // Good cheer sugarcoats sitcom corn
...girl she doesn't even consider Eddie - no, not even when she drives cross-country...was actually the victim of a practical joke, in which Eddie and his pals dressed...nothing good happens in a movie, just as long as nothing bad happens in it. |
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MEAT LOAF SERVED WITH LOTS OF CORN ON THE SIDE.(CAPITAL REGION)
...ve just gotta get the joke. Meat Loaf himself certainly does. There's no other way he could put on...world of Meat Loaf) and long, long songs. Mondays's show...Two Out of Three Ain't Bad'' from the program entirely... |
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GRAND STANDS; It's the concerts. It's not the corn dogs, crop art of cuddly...
...from the radio, but I had no idea what "grape wine in a Mason...tap and soft-shoe). He told jokes ("They said I wouldn't draw...footlong hot dog fits an extra-long bun. New Kids on the Block and...Beatlemania all over again. Too bad the New Kids gave four ... |
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