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...equivalent of today's final club punch events...
...first time this year, city elections Nov. 4 will be coordinated by computer, with magnetic-image ballots replacing the punch cards used for time immemorial...
Neighbor said that the technology, though expensive, is vital. "The state is preparing to outlaw punch cards, and optical software is the only alternative that works given our voting system," Neighbor said...
Former comedian Vaughn Meader said that was his response when told of John F. Kennedy's assassination. He thought he was being set up for a punch line. At the time, Meader was one of the country's most popular performers, thanks to his ability to impersonate the 35th President with gently mocking good humor. His 1962 album, The First Family, was the nation's fastest-selling LP ever. No wonder Lenny Bruce is said to have walked onstage the evening of the assassination and, after a respectful pause, to have broken the silence with "Man, poor Vaughn Meader...
...good new ones include two great punch line shorts, "Sea Slugs!" and "Yes, Timmy, There is a Santa Claus." (The latter, like others in the show, may be familiar to many viewers, despite the "premiere" labeling.) "Fast Driver" parodies "Speed Racer" with results hysterical even for those unfamiliar with the original show's idiotic plotting, redundant dialogue and silly visual effects (here, the usual overhead view of a speedway's race line-up before start includes eight or nine bona fide cars, an airplane and an enormous spermatozoa). "Fast Driver" covers the anime-parody territory far better than "Booby Trap...