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Word: bumming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Besides finding our drummer in the back of a cargo truck on the way to Afghanistan, we usually just stand on street corners with cartons of cigarettes, wait for people to bum a smoke off of us and then ask them to join our band...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blast! Preview: More Interviews With Tonight's Bands | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...real you, it can be argued, is the man with Tom's body; he's the one who knows the most intimate and embarrassing details of your life. The man with your former body may now have a bum knee, but he won't know why (that misguided dive you took playing touch football to impress your girlfriend in 1971). Summing up his own theoretical musings about the wisdom of a brain swap, Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett concluded that it was not an even exchange. "It was clear that my current body and I could part company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can I Grow A New Brain? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...they were at last satisfied when Willis announced that his final song would be "I Wupped Batman's Ass." Fists pumped; the fans screamed and Wesley kicked off those famous opening lines..."Batman got on my nerves/ He was running me amok/ He ridiculed me, calling me a bum." About three minutes and 57 seconds later the concert was finished, as Willis rejected the clamor for an encore. "Get the f--- out of here," he said. "My vocals are getting worse. I got to save my vocals for the next show in Buffalo, New York. Rock and roll will never...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...know the movie With Honors with Joe Pesci? That was about me. I'm the original Harvard bum. I have a T-shirt that says, "I'm Really a Lawyer." I used to sit in on Harvard classes...

Author: By T.s. Field, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: For the Sake of Argument | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

Coming-Out Day '98 featured such gems as, "Have more sex. Join BGLTSA." and "Can I bum a fag?" During the ROTC debate (at which time, both authors of this piece were on the Undergraduate Council and supported the BGLTSA's efforts in that matter), BGLTSA touted flyers depicting a topless soldier accompanied by the caption, "Who's been a naughty soldier?" Gaypril '99 spawned a new marketing campaign for homosexuality--BGLTSA co-opted Nike's logo and slogan by writing "DYKE: Just...

Author: By Alex A. Boni-saenz and Cliff S. Davidson, S | Title: Sensationalism Does Not Instill Pride | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

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