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...wise for rap. They make an excellent case for themselves. Yauch fantasizes about building a medieval catapult on his roof to shower fruit on his neighbors. Diamond asks charmingly tactless questions about the salaries of TIME employees. Horovitz, the only childless Beastie, proudly calls himself Uncle Fart Joke. Even their music, which they take kind of seriously, is something of a gag. Diamond: "People ask us about this album like there's some kind of point. We've got no mission statement. We've got no plan." Yauch: "Basically, we just went into the studio and made...
...more interest. The listing, said the Chicago Tribune, promised to throw in the school's chess team if offers topped $5. It garnered more than a dozen bids, the highest at $14,000, before the student declared the auction a prank. School officials, in a surprise move, got the joke and didn't punish...
...time record. And this Sunday's Tony Awards show was the lowest-rated ever. At one point the host, Hugh Jackman, said hello to the "6,000 people here at Radio City Music Hall and the the other 6,000 watching at home." That was a joke, but only by three zeroes. Six million people watched; that's fewer than the number of tickets sold, at prices up to $500, for Broadway shows this season...
Hobbled by a torn meniscus and sprained ankle sustained in the previous week’s game against Penn, Fitzpatrick limped onto the field at the beginning of the game like a bad joke about a one-legged quarterback. He had missed several games with a broken finger, and his shoulder had given him trouble as well...
...sophomore Mary Serdakowski said the day after the meet. “We proved to ourselves that we have the potential to beat very competitive teams when we give it our all. Also, we proved to the rest of the conference that we are not a joke...